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The spirit of the people. yes, we can. thank you. god bless you. may god bless the united states of america. >> he finished speaking. he came over to me. i just said something like congratulations, mr. president-elect. he said we got a lot of work to do, and that was it. was it. makes it brilliant. the visionary lexus nx. lease the 2021 nx 300 for $359 a month for thirty six months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. trelegy for copd. ♪ birds flyin high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ bree...

You would do this. and just youre going to where you belong. >> that would be a pretty scary moment, i mean a nervous making moment. >> it was terrifying to know that it actually was going to happen, that this was the culmination of everything. it was a lot of emotion. >> also your way of saying good-bye to him. >> yeah. yeah. >> through all of this fred schockner maintained his innocence. in fact even before his trial began fred did carry out a threat he added right after the murder. he launche...

>> i had a moment of just sitting there, and i just started crying. i hugged my family. >> you know, its interesting you say hugged my family because somebody who doesnt know the whole story might say you just lost your family. but they dont know the whole story. >> yeah, no. they were having my mothers side of the family with me, it was amazing. its what families should be. they were all there for me. >> the judge allowed charlie to address his father in court. >> i had this whole like speech p...

Like i dont know what youre talking about. i come into the room a few minutes later and -- >> whoops. >> yeah, it was like the old look of the century. >> then he realized you were a cop. >> yeah. he just hung his head and he looked -- he looked sick. i think the whole world came crashing down at that point. >> you can see the look in his eyes, like a deer in headlights and he started giving it all up. >> coming up -- >> hed want to beat you with a belt and shed prevent it. >> and then he would ...

Young charlie was a lucky kid to grow up in a place like bixby knolls. >> tree-lined street, beautiful neighborhood. its a wonderful place to grow up. would ride my skateboard all around the block, take my dog with me. >> reporter: he was lucky, too, to have lynn for a mother. how did she make you feel? >> i guess how a parent should. >> reporter: safe. >> safe, happy, welcome, loving. just good. >> reporter: but now lynn schockner was gone. killed in a burglary. and charlie, just 14 and grief s...

Often enough as a child i knew what was going on. but then it was normal so i didnt know it was wrong. >> you thought all families were like that? >> i will i had friends come over and they noticed stuff and it was weird for them to notice things and to comment on it. but, yeah, it was always just thats what families did. >> year after year it went on, said charlie, until his mother came to whisper her own secret. she was finally going to leave fred. >> my tucking me in the night when i was 12 o...

>> their father died young. lynn often fought with her mother. >> co-dependent, love-hate, call it what you want. >> she got married, moved to california with a brand new husband. it didnt work out. ended pretty quickly. but then one day she went to a ball game, dodgers versus somebody. who knows? and she found him. the right guy. her guy. fred schockner. he was almost 14 years older than she was, but it didnt seem to matter. didnt hurt either that fred was a very successful man. anyway, this ti...

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 didnt throw out his trash in time. >> no. >> across the country in georgia, charlie got the news. >> yeah, that was -- >> thats quite a place to get to in life when youre happy that your fathers been arrested for murder. the murder of your mother, mind you. >> yeah, its -- i mean, no one would wa...

Thats what he embodied. and i carry that with me. this sunday, impeachment and the republican party split. >> i understand why, but we are going to fight. were going to hold folks accountable. >> president trumps second impeachment trial begins this week with the party torn between party republicans -- >> personality cults arent conservative. conspiracy theories arent conservative. >> and trump republicans. >> this is about what i believe is a psychological obsession with the president. they c...

>> he had me go back and cleanup all the jewelry that had been overturned and spilled out. >> what does that do to your mind? >> made me very numb, very numb. i just -- it was a task and i did it, and then i went to bed. >> and your dad went to bed in the house with you? charlie understood his father intimately of course and he alone knew the secret. understood his father in a way that had been hidden from the outside world for years. charlie may have looked like any other happy suburban kid but...