AUBURN, Wash. -- Officials have released video evidence of an Auburn woman who allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill the father of her child and his family for $500, and even provided a piece of re-bar to be used in the murders.

The video shows Elizabeth Beimer sitting on a bed inside an Auburn motel room as she talks to a man she believes to be a hit man.

Beimer asks the man to kill her ex-husband and three members of his family for a cut rate of $500. She then shows the man pictures of the targets and gives him directions to her ex's house. She also offers to give him a piece of re-bar she brought along to help get the job done.

"It's going to be ugly...ugly, messy," the man says.

"It won't be any open-casket funeral. That's fine," Beimer says. "Bludgeon them with a crowbar or a baseball bat -- I don't care. And then disappear."

But the most chilling exchange comes toward the end of the tape.

"If he's still alive and kicking, so to speak, is there anything you want me to whisper in his ear before he dies?" the hit man asks.

"Nope," Beimer says.

"Nothing? No clue to drop for you?" the man asks again.

"No, don't got to say a thing," Beimer says, then laughs.

What Beimer didn't know at the time was that the man seated across from her is an undercover detective. Beimer was arrested just moments later.

Investigators said Beimer's growing agitation over an ongoing custody battle with the father of her 6-year-old daughter was likely the motive.

According to court documents, Beimer repeatedly asked an acquaintance to have the man, his wife and his parents killed.

The acquaintance told investigators that he tried to talk her out of it, but when he feared she would move forward with the plan on her own he contacted the intended victims and Auburn police.

Auburn police arranged for a King County sheriff's detective to contact Beimer, posing as a hit man.

Ruby Davis was one of Beimer's targets.

"You know, honestly, I don't see how anybody could want to do that," she told KOMO News after Beimer was arrested last fall. "And what she was thinking, I don't know. I hope she gets the help that she needs."

Beimer has now lost custody of all five of her children, including the child she shared with her ex-husband.

She has been charged with solicitation to commit murder.