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
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
talked to with and multipl times right before the murder. frank woo jaramillo frank jaramillo, aka el cubano we an odd person ecologist before committing a murder and less, of course, he was in on it. how to found find? out step, one says chris, nelson go back to nick harvey. lean on him. you have to talk to this gu before he gets rained. because once he is arranged, you are screwed. he s gonna get an attorney, hi attorneys gonna tell him t shut up just what s birdsall and his partner were thinking. so they confronted nick again, now two days after linda s murder you need to be full truthful with my partner and i right, now because it s only gonna you know benefit you t tell the truth this is getting uglier and uglier we went out it won last time he reiterated it almost exactly what he said before. which was that he kille lynn edge schockner because th burglar he tried to carry ou went bad the cops still didn t buy. it you need to take nic into responsibility now. tak
fred referring to mic harvey, a hired killer, for th first time, connecting himself to linda s murder, but frank kept going after, him as if he knew he needed more. we wouldn t be here i pleasant for you, it s not a question was done is done. he s doing the, favor iff believe topping a cut, that s, that he s doing a term for you matt like watching i m no old mary couple arguing back and forth about whose fault it was. but of course, this argument i deadly serious
russia, now back to dateline detective richard birdsal don t believe for a moment tha he was investigating a burglary for one thing, burglars don travel 70 miles to break into house. but for all his suspicion, h could not prove a thing. that is until a man who knew nick harvey called the police. and said nick harvey came to him and offered him some money to sa can you jimmy downed along beach they agreed they met at a parking lot an he drove knicks car. the driver also said that nick told him why he needed to ge along beach. nick harvey - local drug dealers out there so he s going out for that one reason honestly, he had no ide that the agenda included the murder, said the driver. he never knew that he was gonna come down to take someon s life. of course, the guy wa