how deep the hole was. as undercover cop chris nelson prepared frank for his big meeting with fred, el cubano got a call from his wife. he actually believes he was going home. he even tells me i didn t kill her. i almost wanted to slap him and said no you just got someone else to. we used to laugh like is this guy for real? frank set it up. called fred s land line, got the answering machine. still lynn s voice. please leave a message after the tone and we will get back to you. have a great day. bye-bye. it s frank. i wanted to come on by and see you and talk about a couple of things so we can get a couple of things straightened up. appreciate it. i m going to try you on your
they let him go home just to see what he d do. now he s scared. back at the restaurant frank waited for an all-clear signal from the detectives and the waiter who frequently served the schockner family stopped by to reminisce about lynn. putting frank in a very uncomfortable spot. he wasn t able to complete his thought, and soon fred would be having a very different kind of conversation with the police. coming up what a mess. and fred forgot to cleanup. he didn t throw out his trash in time. no. we re reporters from the new york times.
talking about how she was thinking about doing this and that she was so nervous about doing it. and didn t know if it was the right choice or what to do about it. what d you think? my first thought was very excited because it was just great to be able to think of getting away from him. and then finally more than a year later lynn hired family law attorney lisa brandon. what did she tell you she wanted from you? she wanted a fair division of the property. but said, lisa, fred controlled all the finances. so she didn t know how much money they had as a family? no. how much money did they have as a family? well, including the equity in the home, probably 6 to $7 million. which in a legal separation by california law would be split down the middle. lynn also told her about fred s physical abuse, and so with the
the only girl. here she is with her two older brothers, john and mark. but lynn was not like them. she was a tentative girl, whereas my brother and i were very outgoing. their father died young. lynn often fought with her mother. co-dependent, love-hate, call it what you want. she got married, moved to california with a brand new husband. it didn t work out. ended pretty quickly. but then one day she went to a ball game, dodgers versus somebody. who knows? and she found him. the right guy. her guy. fred schockner. he was almost 14 years older than she was, but it didn t seem to matter. didn t hurt either that fred was a very successful man. anyway, this time it clicked. they had an intimate wedding on a boat off the california coast. the captain did the honors. and they lived alone together in that house in bixby knolls. until finally, after 11 years,
the police now firmly believed that fred schockner ordered and paid for his own wife s murder. as charlie s uncle mark said never in my wildest dreams even after she was killed because the circumstances nothing pointed at fred. and the police did not point at fred. they had their reasons. we used them in a lot of respects, and you feel guilty because they re beating their chests and they re upset and they had no idea that the father of charlie is the one that set the whole thing up. well, remember maybe some idea. i always had nigh suspicions. in spite of the fact it was a burglar and the police said it was a burglar, you still suspected your father? i didn t want to put it past him as much as like as a kid you don t want to suspect someone of