charged with punishing the murder of his wife took the stand in his ow defense. he was very defiant, an completely maintained hi innocence, until the end in the face of thi overwhelming evidence, h maintained his innocence it was all a tragic misunderstanding, said fred. he didn t pay for murder just for a used bmw. and all those calls to his alleged coconspirator, e cubano, he said they wer pocket costs and they proved nothing. the jury had to consider all possibilities, naturally, an there is no shortage of nerves among members of lynn schockne family charlie, just 17 years old tha day, watched the jury file bac in it s lawn order and everything at their, he sa there, and everyone comes in and you hold your breath, th world kind of stops, you don t
looking. at we don t want them to get lawyers. so inside and outside the long beach media, the pressure was. on my department was one of the we have a black, i the press was just beating us up daily a to what we did so the clock was ticking. detectives wanted to prove the murder and they needed to do it fast. that was the whole, gam trying to play cotton, miles trying to get more, we wante to get them to, talk t communicate. but, it wasn t going to happen, by the look of it even though they kept talking to fred. we kept going to th husband. playing dumb, of course but hoping he d panic and call was el cubano. i one point to recallin each other every day but try to give them a reaso so that he would be more suspicious than he was already one more. sir just like colombo, on