procedure. wait a minute, it s their fault because they didn t prevent me from killing my wife? that s right. exactly. the claim was rejected. but now on the day of his sentencing he tried to same argument again. yes, that was the judge s response, too. he called it and he called him a disgusting human being and he did not mince words. fred was sentenced to life without parole, they all were. and in a few sentences what did you think the motif of this murder was? money. in one word apparently. for whatever reason 3 or 4 million was not enough. he wanted 6 or 8. even from prison fred shockner fought to keep it all for himself, fought his own son, his own blood. tried to prevent charlie from getting a share of the shockner
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 you 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. it s frank. appreciate it. i m going to try you on your cell. fred picked up the phone. you there? what s going on bud? nothing much. and they agreed to meet 7:30 in the evening at a local restaurant. i ll try to be there on time. okay 7:30, bud. okay, bye.
cheap. totally opinionated. absolutely self-involved. reporter: so when he invited lynn and charlie to visit him in georgia i basically told my sister not to bother to bring him. stay as long as she wanted. leave her old man at home. reporter: and on one of those visits, mark told lynn exactly how he felt. i said, how can you let someone run your life and forget about yourself? reporter: afterward, he sat down and wrote many of the same things in a harshly worded letter to fred. i wrote that letter. i signed the letter. i handed it to my sister, and i dared her to give it to him. reporter: did you think she actually would? i didn t know. but she did. reporter: that took guts. it did. it did. reporter: and frankly, mark was pleased when, a few years later, after a quarter century of marriage, lynn told him they
back at the restaurant frank waited for an all-clear signal from the detectives and the waiter who frequently served the shockner 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. when dateline continues. no. when dateline continues come. .gently and beautifully. and now with air wick, you can experience nature s scents in your home. with kits starting at just ten dollars. it transforms natural essential oils into a fragrant mist. simply adjust your setting for the perfect balance.
were splitting, and fred moved out of the house in bixby knolls. she changed somehow after your father left? she seemed freer, seemed happier, more able to get excited, just really interested in everything and very lighthearted. reporter: but her happiness was short-lived. and when mark first heard she was murdered, his mind went to a very dark place. could fred have had something to do with it? but as much as he disliked fred, he just couldn t see it. there were no connections in their personal life to this person that committed the crime. reporter: no, it seemed pretty clear, fred had nothing to do with lynn s murder. besides, lynn changed the locks on the house after fred moved out. could it be someone she hired to install some protection actually came back to rob her and wound