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
their personal life to thi person who committed the crime no, it seems pretty clear fred had nothing to do wit lynn s murder. besides, lynn changed the lock on the house after fred move out, could it be someone she hired to install som protection, actually come back to rob her and kill her? after, all such a person would ve seen that land ha valuable things around the house in this very nic neighborhood the neighborhood ha everything a burglary wanted t find, private yards wealthy, homes and she had the worst o possible luck in that he picke her. yes and now the family came together in grief. and when he saw fred - we hugged, shared condolences, within five or te minutes, he mentioned th letter he said, do you still believ that i said, no, that s water ove the bridge we need to get on with our family, we need to stick together fred moved back into th family home. he and charlie and the rest of the family leaned on eac other.
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
that was really disturbin and, you know, you hate to second judge another cop but there were mistakes made after all, a neighbor reported a prouder in the back alley. a prouder who may have sneaked into her house but she, the victim, didn seem to believe that she had a little eskimo dog barking butterflies. and there is no way that there would be a - but she was wrong she was wrong her son, charlie, was a freshman in high school then he was sitting in math class somebody told him that he wa wounded in the principle office, on the way there h thought he was in trouble. and then, when they told him - i didn t believe it i thought it was a joke. until your father arrived with tears in his eyes that was when i kne something was wrong. his father, manfred, or fre as most people call, and cam to take charlie home how is your father? upset he was definitely one he was crying.
year to year, it went, on said charlie, intel s mother came into whisper her ow secret she is finally going to leav forehead my mom is taken in a nigh when i talk over so, and she was talking about a shoe state of doing this, and that she wa so nervous about doing it. she did know if it is ver choice, or what to do about it what did you think? i first thought was ver excited, because it is great t be able to think of being able to get away from him and then finally, more than a year later, when hired famil law attorney lisa bryant what did she tell you she wanted from you? she wanted a fair divisio of the property. fred controlled all the finances so she didn t know how much money she had as a family. now why did they have as family including equity in home, probably six to 7 million.