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
here is disbelief. then burst into tears righ away, i started screaming, i was just stunned linda grew up in ohio, sh was the baby of the family, th only girl. here she is with her two older brothers, john and mark, but lynn was not like them she was a tentative girl, where is my brother and i were very outgoing. their father died young lynn all often fought with her mother codefendant, love hate, cal it what you want she got married, moved to
someone run your life an forget about yourself? afterward, he sat down an wrote many of the same thing in a harshly worded letter t fred i wrote that letter, signed the letter, i handed it to my sister, and i dared he to give it to him. > di you think she actually would i didn t know but she did well that took guts. it did, it did. one and frankly, mark was pleased, one of here is later, after a quarter century of marriage, lynn told him that they were splitting. and fred moved out of the hous in bixby knolls. she changed somehow after your father left she seemed freer, happier them more able to get excited, just really interested in everythin and very light hearted but, her happiness was shor lived. and when mark first heard sh was murdered, his mind went to a very dark place, could fre have something to do with it but as much as he disliked fred, there was no way he could se it there were no connections i
he couldn t drive. i didn t really have eyes fo him in that moment - you are just a mess yes and charlie still could not believe what he was hearing. it really didn t set in until i saw the house and then it all came crashing down. his home was a crime scene. the house was taped off and there were people going in and out of the house a lot of neighbors around. like everything you see on tv. you never think it s goin to be? you owe no. it s surreal very much so what is that lost feel? like yeah, i can t put it into words it was tremendous it was awful i immediately called mark an babbling on the phone, i couldn t even speak. mark was charlie s uncle, lynn s brother after the initial shock
would stop at nothing to mak sure that he got that. around bixby knolls, they considered it completely norma for them to be an upscal family certainly not the type o people to be targeted by dru dealers. but family members had a slightly more intimate perspective. francis s sister found him obnoxious. he was not shy abou dropping hints about the exten of his holdings. mark did not see them ver often, he lived way across the country in georgia, but when h did come to visit in long, beach and they went out to dinner, fred always managed to monopolize the conversation an somehow stick mark with th bill keep, totally opinionated absolutely self involved so, when he invited lyn charlie to visit him in georgia, i basically told my siste not to bother to bring him, sh could stay as long as sh wanted, leave her own head a home and on one of those visits, mark told lynn exactly how h felt i said, how can you let