what he d do. let s just see if he reaches out to somebody. because now he s scared. back at the restaurant frank waited for an all-clear signal from the detectives. and the waiter, who d frequently served the schockner family, stopped by to reminisce about lynn. she s very nice, very funny. putting frank in a very uncomfortable spot. there s nothing that anybody can say can he wasn t able to complete his thought, and soon fred would be having a very different kind of conversation with the police. coming up what a mess. and fred forgot to clean up. didn t throw out his trash in time. no. when dateline continues. when dateline continues
morning and caught him in his pajamas and disheveled. i mean, you could tell he hadn t slept a lot that night. he look shocked, worried, upset? very shocked and very upset. why were we there? and, you know, our response is, we re here to arrest you. they took him away. and when they searched his house, they found one last piece of evidence in a trash can. one of those notes fred scribbled in the restaurant. sloppy nick, it said. he didn t throw out his trash in time. nope. across the country in georgia, charlie got the news. yeah, that was another kind of happy moment, to be honest. that s quite a place to get to in life, when you re happy that your father s been arrested for murder, the murder of your mother, mind you. yeah. it s i mean no one wants to no one would want to actually say, gosh, yeah, that s a good thing, but after everything growing up with him in the house, it seems like a little bit of justice. almost three years after
after nearly a month of painstaking investigation, detectives had engineered a face-to-face meeting between the murder middleman frank jaramillo and the suspected mastermind, lynn schockner s husband, fred. this is where frank would attempt to get fred to say something to incriminate himself. except fred was late. had he finally realized they were laying a trap? 7:30. 7:33. 7:35. nothing. if he didn t show this could all fall apart. then a signal from the surveillance van. there he was. the guys outside saw him kind of casing the place to make sure he wasn t being he was already really paranoid about being setup. clearly. came in with his note pad. hey, old man, how are you feeling? now all eyes were on frank and fred. and they both at this point look like they ve been rode hard and put away wet.
thousand oaks mall s at? thousand oaks mall. it s off of lynn road. lynn? yes, off the 101. lynn road, the irony was apparently lost on frank jaramillo. it was mid-morning, late november. detective nelson was worried. would he show up? you sit in the parking lot by yourself and you kind of go over and sure, your heart races a little bit. i mean, it s crunch time and you feel like everybody s kind of depending on you to get this done. you want it to go well. so the idea is you re reeling them in like a fisherman? yep. but there are times when you don t know what s going to happen? right. you know? could have a fray in the line. have it break. had that happen a few times. but not this time. there was frank in a brand new lexus suv. frank? yeah, that s me. that s not an i.s. an i.s., referring to the less expensive car he said he d be driving. oh, yeah. my wife took the other car this morning. that s sweet.
conducted a thorough search of the restaurant for those notes fred wrote. they found nothing. nor did fred contact anyone else that evening. and so the next morning we just showed up 9:00 in the morning and caught him in his pajamas. and disheveled. i mean, you could tell he hadn t slept a lot that night. reporter: he look shocked, worried, upset? very shocked and very upset. why were we there? and, you know, our response is, we re here to arrest you. reporter: they took him away, and when they searched his house they found one last piece of evidence in a trash can. one of those notes fred scribbled in the restaurant. sloppy nick, it said. he didn t throw out his trash in time. nope. reporter: across the country in georgia, charlie got the news. yeah, that was another kind of happy moment, to be honest. reporter: that s quite a place to get to in life, when you re happy that your father s