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
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