home under the watchful eye of the undercover cops who also conducted a thorough search of the restaurant for those notes fred wrote. they found nothing. nor did fred contact anyone else that evening. and so the next morning. we just showed up at 9:00 in the morning and he had on his pajamas and you could tell he hadn t slept a lot that night. very shocked and very upset while we were there. and our response was we re here to arrest you. they took him away and when they searched his house, they found one last piece of evidence in a trash can. one of those notes fred scribbled in the restaurant. sloppy nick, he said. he didn t throw out his trash in time. no. across the country in georgia, charlie got the news. yeah, that was that s quite a place to get to in life when you re happy
reporter: but, he said, she came around. she wanted to do what s right all along, she just would like to do that without getting herself killed doing it. reporter: but she would only proceed on one condition. i had to prove why she was gonna be safe. i had to prove how we were gonna do this. it wasn t enough for me to say, oh, don t worry. he won t have a gun. we ll look for bulges. reporter: so they came up with a plan. gave her a cover story to protect her, a fictitious job, a phony address and then casually she resumed contact with shane, a few emails. a little flirty at times, on both ends people sometimes hear from their exes, right? i mean, that that happens. reporter: and finally, the sting. she told shane she d be passing through the lexington airport on business, and he agreed to meet her. it was in this airport lounge, surrounded by undercover cops and fbi and behind security to be sure shane wasn t armed. so what s been happening? worked about two yea
and fred, well, fred did go home from any one else. under the watchful eye of the why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, undercover cops, who also which most pills don t. conducted a thorough search of the restaurant for those notes flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. fred wrote. most pills only block one. they found nothing. flonase. nor did fred contact anyone else that evening. and so the next morning we just showed up 9:00 in the morning and caught him in his pajamas and disheveled. i mean, you could tell he hadn t slept a lot that night. reporter: he look shocked, worried, upset? very shocked and very upset. why were we there? and, you know, our response is, we re here to arrest you. reporter: they took him away. and when they searched his house, they found one last piece of evidence in a trash can. one of those notes fred scribbled in the restaurant. sloppy nick, it said. he didn t throw o
dna. our investigators were not cut out for undercover surveillance work. so he finally brought lapd s internal affairs detectives into the loop hoping they could close the deal by somehow secretly obtaining her dna. she was tailed for days as undercover cops waited fer her to leave some small piece of herself behind. finally at a retail store, it happened. she ordered a soft drink and drank it. a trace of her saliva was on a straw which she then tossed into the crash. it was more than enough for testing. two dna samples separated by two decades. 48 hours later he got a call. he said it s a match. good feeling, bad feeling? surreal. that moment, that call, i ll never ferg it. but stefani was still free
he d just recently married a wonderful woman, a school teacher, who had no idea what her husband had done or what he was facing. there s nothing that s going to happen if we both maintain our cool. reporter: but it was too late for that. frank did not go home to his wife that evening. he submitted to a pair of handcuffs and was carted off to jail. and fred, well, fred did go home under the watchful eye of the undercover cops, who also conducted a thorough search of the restaurant for those notes fred wrote. they found nothing.