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
out of prison, he was going to find frank and take care of him myself the detectives played along of course, but nick dream up any conspiracy made him. happy but meanwhile th requisition was el cubano phone records. and they found something surprising he was talking t nick, harvey but he was also talking to the husband fred schockner? fred schockner. fred schockner, lends husband of 25 years. on the surface, it didn t make much sense after, alfred had been cooperative with detective since day one. and, yes he had moved out of the family, house but he tol them that the break was amulet he she is my best, friend he said and not long after the murder, young charlie sought out birdsall and whispered a cruel question does my father have anythin to do with this truly remembers what the detective told him we he said that - he was quick about it.
well around the neighborhoo absorbed the news that there i a possible accomplice neighbors wondered, were mor people involved? there was concern that ther are others that might come bac to more houses and more home and that they were violent but that fear soon turned t anger when another bit of news swept through the police let the driver go coming up, detectives were convinced nick harvey didn t have a motive to commit murder but maybe someone else did my partner discovered tha there was a person that he talked to multiple times right before the murder. when dateline continues
perhaps fred had more pressing things to think about. whatever his reason, he put charlie on a plane to georgia just in time for the main event of the murder investigation. frank under arrest as the alleged middleman was expelling it all, telling police he took money from lynn s husband along with used a little of it to hire the killer harvey. frank agreed to help set a trap for these expected mastermind but wait a minute, did you promised him something? i didn t promise him anything. so why would he do it? i think in his mind, because we he was trying to dig himself out of a whole. or maybe frank didn t understand how deep the hole was. as undercover cop prepared frank for his big meeting with red, got a call from his wife. i said ham down here with
husband of 25 years. on the surface, it didn t make much sense. after, alfred had been cooperative with detective since day one. and, yes he had moved out of the family, house but he told them that the break was amulet, he she is my best, friend he said. and not long after the murder, young charlie sought out birdsall and whispered a cruel question. does my father have anything to do with? this truly remembers what the detective told him. we he said that he was quick about it. that if they have thought that, they would ve looked into him, and not to worry about that. is that what detectives really believe? well, no. we have to sit there and look at him in the eye and say, well kate let you know if he is. involved but not say we suspect.