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
have money to help him out first, friend doesn t see to take the bait yeah, it might be if i ca help him i understand i would. i m sorry that i apologize, can t. then carefully, uncle joh reels him in he seem to think that i somebody didn t reach out to him, he told me not so much you, but she told me to tell, hav you tell fred that if he didn get some help pretty soon, h was gonna go to the cops okay. give me a call tomorrow we ll see what i can do to hel you out but, after all that frien did not make the all-important and incriminating call to fred schockner, asking for money. and so, the very next day, uncle john tried again hey, did you get a hold o fred no, but between you and i, don t mind taking care of him, bud. frank asked for time, and agreed to meet uncle john in person, to hand over som money. do you know where the thousand oaks mall s at? thousand oaks mall? it s off line road. yes, off the 101. lynn road the irony was apparently lost. it w