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Solving lynns murder would take years and involve tapping phones and hidden cameras. and long held family secrets would be revealed. heres keith morrison. >> you never think its going to be you. >> oh, no. no, no, no. >> no. the young man is right. in fact, this is just the kind of thing that doesnt happen to anyone. >> no, never would have thought i would have ever seen anything like this. >> no, and not here. not in this neighborhood in this house. but certainly not, surely not at the very mom...

Several cops responded, were there in minutes. and as they talked to the 911 caller, they heard and saw a little white dog barking incessantly from a window at the schockners house. it was a little american eskimo or something thats called. >> yeah, not a very large dog. yap, yap, yappie dog. >> reporter: a petite-framed woman came to the window to see what her dog was barking at. an officer gestured to her, come outside. clearly bewildered, she finally opened the door. >> so he is telling her t...

Their outdoor bath that morning in june, someone was watching. her. >> i got up at 6:00. got my coffee. >> lindsay patterson was on leave from her i.t. job in the navy, visiting her mom who lives just over the backyard wall from the hall house. lindsay was inside, in the bathroom that faced away from the hall house and out onto the street, when she heard a noise. >> it was a horrible scream. it was just, something was wrong kind of scream. >> a womans, she thought. she went outside to tell her m...

Little white dog barking incessantly from a window at the schockners house. it was a little american eskimo or something thats called. >> yeah, not a very large dog. >> reporter: yap, yap, yap, yap. >> yappie dog. >> reporter: a petite-framed woman came to the window to see what her dog was barking at. an officer gestured to her, come outside. clearly bewildered, she finally opened the door. >> so he is telling her that they got a call from a neighbor that they saw a prowler. and would it be oka...

The very moment when at least three policemen were just outside the front door and just over the backyard wall not more than 30 feet away. >> we had to be told a few times just to get it in our heads what happened. >> reporter: what happened here in broad daylight under the very noses of the cops was murder. long beach, california. a town that may have been cheated a little in the city pride department. >> a lot of people assume its like l.a., but its not. its different. it has its own identity....

This. >> no, not here. not in this neighborhood, in this house. but certainly not, surely not at the veryy moment when at least three policemen were just outside the front door. and just over the backyard wall, notya more than 30 feet away. >> we had to be told a few times just to get it in our heads what happened. >> whatat happened here? broaden daylight under the very noses of the cops? was murder. long beach, california. a town that may have been cheated a little in the city pride department...

Disastrous accident that killed the love of his life? and the answer was right next door. when chris and cristi hall took their outdoor bath that morning in june, someone was watching. her. >> i got up at 6:00. >> lindsay patterson was on leave from her i.t. job in the navy, visiting her mom who lives just over the backyard wall from the hall house. lindsay was inside, in the bathroom that faced away from the hall house and out onto the street, when she heard a noise. >> it was a horrible scream...

Just over the backyard wall from the hall house. lindsay was inside, in the bathroom that faced away from the hall house and out onto the street, when she heard a noise. >> it was a horrible scream. it was just, something was wrong kind of scream. >> a womans, she thought. she went outside to tell her mom. i said, did you hear that scream? she said, yeah, but i think its just kids playing in the -- playing in the pool. >> kids, at six something in the morning? lindsay walked over to the six-foot...

Thing that just doesnt happen. >> never. never would have thought i would have ever seen anything like this. >> no, not here. not in this neighborhood, in this house. but certainly not, surely not at the very moment when at least three policemen were just outside the front door and just over the backyard wall not more than 30 feet away. >> we had to be told a few times just to get it in our head what happened. >> what happened here in broad daylight under the very noses of the cops was murder. >...

Walks out the back door. >> three cops waited outside the front door. two more cops pulled in right here in the alley behind the house. and then, to their great surprise, the prowler jumped over the backyard wall, practically into their arms. they searched him and found jewelry and a taser and a cell phone and a knife with blood on it. the cops out front waited for the woman to return. she didnt. ten seconds, 20 seconds, did a minute go by? they decided time to go in. they opened the door, looke...