i m craig melvin and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. the neighborhood ha everything a burglary wanted t find, private yards, wealthy homes and she had the worst o possible luck, in that h picked her yes i d like to report an attempted break in - a mother, home alone. cops raced to her front door a she walks into an ambush in he backyard how does somebody die in matter of seconds with officer around her home? it was surreal, it wa awful. your first thought of tha time it s a burglary gone wrong. but the burglar caugh red-handed starts pointing fingers. this is a guy who aspire to be a hit man - she was a sitting target. does it now mean that you charge them all with effort now the detectives lay a trap we triedd to play cat and mouse. we re getting reall paranoid about being - one are you wired will they catch their prey? you hold your breath, the world s gonna stop this. you never think it s goin to be you. oh no
tree lined street, beautifu neighborhood it was a wonderful place t grow up. and i would escape our take my dog around he was lucky too to hav lynn for a mother. how did you make you feel? as parents should safe? loving. welcome. they just good but now, lynn was gone killed in a burglary charlie was 14 and grief stricken, was so angry at th police you didn t do your job, how could that happen with you being right? there that negligence. charlie was far from th only one this was a broad dayligh murder police officers just outside their front door when it happened i can imagine people would b kind of acts set in th neighborhood, that a burglar had been there yes and dropped a house, killed women, and the cops can preven it right i think the majority of th neighborhood was just stunne and shocked by the violence. how does somebody who is in he