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
Their personal life to thi person who committed the crime no, it seems pretty clear fred had nothing to do wit lynn s murder. besides, lynn changed the lock on the house after fred move out, could it be someone she hired to install som protection, actually come back to rob her and kill her? after, all such a person would ve seen that land ha valuable things around the house in this very nic neighborhood the neighborhood ha everything a burglary wanted t find, private yards wealthy, homes and she had the worst o possible luck in that he picke her. yes and now the family came together in grief. and when he saw fred - we hugged, shared condolences, within five or te minutes, he mentioned th letter he said, do you still believ that i said, no, that s water ove the bridge we need to get on with our family, we need to stick together fred moved back into th family home. he and charlie and the rest of the family leaned on eac other.
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
it s something you want out of the punishment phase. i never want him to be able to do this to somebody els because if it wasn t me, wasn valerie, if it wasn t any, can be somebody else and then use the stop. the jury sentence not t life in prison, afterwards megan addressed him directly well you said in jail i hop you think of me, the girl that you called for in an educated, it s because of you that you l be in prison for life. i was really proud of her, think it took incredible courage on her right to se this through megan, those in, away she was lucky. every day, and so man people, helmy and as i make difference for those who don t have a voice that s all for this edition of dateline, i m andrea canning, thanks for watching.
Probably lying so they put him under arrest anyway, his claim that h thought he was driving a dru enforcer did make a lick o sense. the notion that lynn schockner or was somehow tangled up with drug dealers and targetted for execution was frankl preposterous lynn had been leading a quie life for 25 years, married to man with a lot going for him he was a wealthy man. for years, fred earned to dollar in the aerospac industry, not to mention all the family money that he inherited. they were able to affor things that none of us growing up could possibly afford, we were a blue collar working class people and we didn t kno many millionaires growing up he bought her things, jewelry that, sort of thing? right from the beginnin they bought a very nice home i an exclusive some suburb o long beach that was a step up marks remembers flying up t sea limb after she got married she was dying to show off her home, show off her new live