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
the officers who didn t do anything wrong you re waiting for someone t bring you the key. they waited a short period o time, within a minute, they re yelling for her, ma am, can yo come back, hello where are you? just a minute or so enough freeland to surprise th burglar who stabbed her in the neck, grab some jewelry, and ran into the arms of the police the detective filed around the crime scene. we saw the bedroom drawer were open, jewelry, things wer thrown around. so you look at a lot of things in disarray. it looked like a standard daytime burglary, gone horribl bad, of, course when lyn encountered the rober. but one thing stood out, like, well, a bloody knife i ve been in the burglary division for four years bu i ve never had one come with a device simply for killing. so, time to focus on that so-called burglar. caught with a bloody knife i his pocket his name was nicholas harvey he was 22 years old and this was unusual. he didn t have a criminal background, he never h
even though lynn had lots of real diamonds, right there t be taken, along with other valuable items if you can do a daytime burglary, and kill somebody, you could make the effort to get the good stuff but h didn t so either nick harvey was the world s worst burglar, o the burglary wasn t the poin of his visit the detectives pushed him hard but he did want to change his story. we were at it for hours. we walk out of there saying, this is, done this is what i seems to be. just a hunch of course. no way to prove it until, 70 miles up the coast, man picked up the phone to cal the police coming up, a family feud - i wrote that letter, signed the letter, i handed it to my sister, and i dared he to give it to him. what is that all about? when dateline continues. [coughing] .by, you know how i feel. if you re tired of staring down your copd,. it s a new dawn, it s a new day. .stop settling. .and i m feelin good. start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd me
in disarray. it looked like a standard daytime burglary, gone horribly bad, of, course when lynn encountered the rubber. but one thing stood out, like, well, a bloody knife. i ve been in the burglary division for four years but i ve never had one come with a device simply for killing. so, time to focus on that so-called burglar. caught with a bloody knife in his pocket. his name was nicholas harvey, he was 22 years old and this was unusual. he didn t have a criminal background, he never had trouble with the law before. he seemed like a nice man? he was very personable, he wanted to cooperate with us. in his words, he always wanted to be a cop at some point in his life. and here he is robbing and killing a woman? correct. well he was a personal trailer at a local gym. he s a big muscle bouncer of a character? correct. from port hueneme?
turns out it was fake. even though lynn had lots of real diamonds, right there to be taken, along with other valuable items. if you can do a daytime burglary, and kill somebody, you could make the effort to get the good. stuff but he didn t. so either nick harvey was the world s worst burglar, or the burglary wasn t the point of his visit. the detectives pushed him hard, but he did want to change the story. we were added for hours. we walk out of there saying, this is, done this is what it seems to be. just a hunch of course. no way to prove it. until, 70 miles up the coast, a man picked up the phone to call the police. coming up, a family feud i wrote that line letter, i signed the letter, i handed it to my sister, and i dared her to give it to him. what is that all about? when dateline continues.