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
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