i mean, it's crunch time and you feel like everybody's kind of depending on you to get this not quite noon. done. you want it to go well. and as usual, it was quiet in >> reporter: so the idea is you're reeling them in like a fisherman? >> yep. >> reporter: but there are times when you don't know what's going to happen? bixby knolls here in long beach. >> right. you know? could have a fray in the line. have it break. had that happen a few times. quiet. >> reporter: but not this time. there was frank in a brand new lexus suv. and in that quiet more menacing >> frank? than anybody understood. >> yeah, that's me. as police, responding to a call about a prowler, waited outside >> that's not an i.s. the front door, neither they nor >> reporter: an i.s., referring the half-awake homeowner sensed the jeopardy as she closed the to the less expensive car he door in their faces and went in search of a key for the gate to said he'd be driving. the yard. seconds ticked by. the dog barked. >> oh, yeah. the woman didn't return. my wife took the other car this so the cops, still not getting morning. >> that's sweet. it, went in. now i know what you spent your too late. money on. >> she was attacked and she was >> reporter: money from fred schockner, is what the cop meant. killed right then and there while the officer was on her frank did not take that bait. >> i gotta get going. front porch. >> reporter: just extraordinary. >> yes. >> reporter: the victim's name >> reporter: hard to tell from was lynn schockner. the video, but frank coughs up the money. >> i got a grand for you right she was 50 years old. now because they're still monitoring my accounts. when they found her lying quite >> who is? dead just outside her own back