Police radio transmissions from Aurora, Colo., depict the shooting tragedy as it unfolded early Friday morning.

NBC affiliate KUSA in Denver acquired the audio from RadioReference.com. The Aurora Police Department told NBC News that it has not officially released the recordings between police officers and dispatch, but acknowledged they were available on the Internet.

• "They're saying somebody's shooting in the auditorium."
• "They're saying there's just hundreds of people running around."
• "Somebody's spraying gas in there, too."
• "Need more officers inside theater nine."
• "We got another person outside shot in the leg, a female. I got people running out of the theater ..."
• "Another victim on the north side of the theater in the parking lot."
• "We need gas masks."
• "I'm being told that he's in theater nine."
• "Get out some d**n gas masks for theater nine. We can't get in it."
• "We have a party in car shot."
• "I need at least three or four ambulances brought in here."
• "I need a marked car behind the theater ... the suspect in the gas mask."
• "Set up a perimeter around the entire mall."
• "We need rescue inside the auditorium. Multiple victims."
• "Seven down in theater nine."
• "Shooter might be wearing a white and blue plaid shirt."

At this time, police began dispatching help from surrounding police departments, including Denver.

• "I need a medical crew inside. I got one victim eviscerated..."
• "We're going to evacuate all we can out of nine."
• "Shut this movie off at nine."
• "Notify all the hospitals. We have people coming in."
• "If they are mobile, get them outside. We have a few that are not mobile, we need a rescue crew right away."

Raw audio from the Aurora Fire Department is also online.

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Police say a Detroit-area man was caught on tape trying to hire someone to kill the hitman who killed his wife, according to media reports.

Authorities arrested Bob Bashara of Grosse Pointe Park on Monday and charged him with solicitation of murder, prosecutors said in a news conference, NBC station WDIV reported. The Detroit Free Press reported that he was arrested at a property he owned that police said had a sex dungeon in the basement.

Officials allege Bashara offered to pay someone to murder Joseph Gentz, the man charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Jane Bashara, the Detroit Free Press reported. 

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy told reporters that Bashara had several meetings with someone between June 8 and June 25 with the intention of hiring the person to kill Gentz in the detention facility where he's being held before his July 23 court date. 

"We are alleging that this defendant, Mr. Bashara, met with another person, not a law enforcement official, on several occasions for the purpose of hatching a plan to kill Mr. Gentz in jail," Worthy said.

WDIV reported that the man whom Bashara is accused of soliciting to carry out the murder was cooperating with police and was wired for audio.

Worth said Bashara also met with a second person whom he wanted to kill Gentz, the paper reported. 

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The Free Press reported that Bashara was a person of interest in his wife's death after he failed a polygraph examination, but he hasn't been charged. 

Jane Bashara was strangled in her SUV in January. 

The station reported that sources said Gentz, who had been Bashara's handyman on several real estate deals, killed Jane Bashara on her husband's order. 

David Griem, Bashara's attorney, told the paper that his client believes he was being set up. 

"He was shocked, he was surprised, he didn't know why he had been arrested," Griem told the paper.

He said Bashara told him before being transferred to a county jail, "David, this is a setup."

Griem told the paper that Bashara said he believes the person trying to set him up is someone he knows, but not well. Griem said Bashara thinks it's someone who sold furniture and appliances to him. 

Griem said a man approached Bashara several times about the idea of killing Gentz, but turned him down each time. 

Gentz's attorney, Susan Reed, told the paper she alerted officials that her client was in danger when someone told her about the plot against him. She didn't suspect Bashara of being involved until he was arrested.

"It makes sense," she told the newspaper. 

Gentz has been moved into segregation in jail for his own safety, the Free Press reported. WDIV reported that Bashara is on suicide watch in a county jail.

At Bashara's arraignment Wednesday, bail was set at $15 million, the Free Press reported.

If convicted, both Bashara and Gentz could each face up to life in prison.

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Eight hours of audio never before heard by law enforcement has been requested by the Los Angeles Police Department, and it could link followers of the Manson Family to unsolved murders.

In a letter dated March 19, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck requested "eight hours or so" of audio recordings between attorney Bill Boyd and his then-client Charles "Tex" Watson, according to a U.S. bankruptcy filing.

Watson, the former right-hand man of Charles Manson, is currently serving a life sentence for his involvement in the 1969 Manson Family murders.

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Although the LAPD has yet to receive the recordings, police believe the interviews could contain information about unsolved murders.

"The LAPD has information that Mr. Watson discussed additional unsolved murders committed by followers of Charles Manson," Beck wrote in a request to a trustee with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The LAPD's request corresponds to the liquidation of Boyd's Texas-based law firm as part of a bankruptcy proceeding. Boyd, who died in 2009, represented Watson beginning in 1969 and "for some time thereafter," according to Beck.

"It is requested that the original recordings be given to the LAPD in order to determine if information regarding unsolved murders was included in the recordings. The LAPD, Robbery-Homicide Division will be investigating Mr. Watson's recordings…" wrote Beck.

Document: LAPD Chief's Letter Requesting Audio Recording (PDF)

A bankruptcy court hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in Plano, Texas, to determine if the audio will be given to police.

The recordings remained private until September 1976 when Watson authorized its sale to author Chaplain Ray Hoekstra to help cover unpaid legal fees. Hoekstra used the material for his 1978 book "Will You Die For Me?"

Watson was sentenced to death for the murders of Abigail Ann Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Thomas Jay Sebring, Steven Earl Parent, and Sharon Tate Polanski. California temporarily suspended the death penalty in 1972, and Watson has been serving a life sentence ever since. He was most recently denied parole last November.

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