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
their personal life to thi person who committed the crime no, it seems pretty clear fred had nothing to do wit lynn s murder. besides, lynn changed the lock on the house after fred move out, could it be someone she hired to install som protection, actually come back to rob her and kill her? after, all such a person would ve seen that land ha valuable things around the house in this very nic neighborhood the neighborhood ha everything a burglary wanted t find, private yards wealthy, homes and she had the worst o possible luck in that he picke her. yes and now the family came together in grief. and when he saw fred - we hugged, shared condolences, within five or te minutes, he mentioned th letter he said, do you still believ that i said, no, that s water ove the bridge we need to get on with our family, we need to stick together fred moved back into th family home. he and charlie and the rest of the family leaned on eac other.
tree lined street, beautifu neighborhood it was a wonderful place t grow up. and i would escape our take my dog around he was lucky too to hav lynn for a mother. how did you make you feel? as parents should safe? loving. welcome. they just good but now, lynn was gone killed in a burglary charlie was 14 and grief stricken, was so angry at th police you didn t do your job, how could that happen with you being right? there that negligence. charlie was far from th only one this was a broad dayligh murder police officers just outside their front door when it happened i can imagine people would b kind of acts set in th neighborhood, that a burglar had been there yes and dropped a house, killed women, and the cops can preven it right i think the majority of th neighborhood was just stunne and shocked by the violence. how does somebody who is in he
conspiracy statement, i have no facts it s a statement fro one. person that person, nic harvey, was an admitted killer and demonstrated liar. and with the police department under so much scrutiny, they didn t dare arrest anybody wit solid proof. just think of the scandal on top of everything else, th prosecution failed they did find frauds busines card and frauds wallet, bu that wasn t enough either. meanwhile, the public, lynn family, would be encouraged to believe that it was a case of burglary gone bad. a murder that cop should v prevented. i can go out there an defend my department as much a i wanted to. you can say anything? and i can t tell the press, i can t tell - you can t defend ourselves because we have suspects o interests are the ones we ar
i don t blame you but you ask me up a coupl of questions, and i m gonn give you some information. okay. the check that i wrote to frank was cashed on octobe 29th for $25, 000, okay. that was for the bmw that was for the bmw. look at this, on the check, there is a note that indicates the bmw, be delivered betwee 11 seven and eight lynn was murdered on the 8th o november i called him today and aske about the status of the car on the voice mail okay you called him today, did you happen to ask him if he wa