hello, and welcome to dateline. garrett ward was a hollywood stunt man, who made his living pulling off death defying acts. then one night, he opened the door for a stranger and found himself in the middle of a terrifying scene that was all too real. garrett was looking down the barrel of a gun, moments later, four shots rang out. and soon investigators would be embroiled in a who done it with more twists than a feature film. here s josh mankiewicz with the plot thickens. ready and action! action. it ranks second only to money. i as the single most important word in hollywood. and here in l. a., where life and art are often the same form, there is a real life drama that rivals in the action movie with a plot that includes all the element of a classic film noir. a mystery, featuring an assassin, a femme fatale, a hollywood star, and a stunt man who takes the fall. and as for the money, we will get to that. let s start with the biggest name on the marquee, joe pesci. fa
claudia denied everything. do you know who shots garrett warren? i don t know. do you know why he was shot? no, i don t know. but while there was evidence enough to charge claudia, was there enough to convict her? you have mr. cures is the mission, and then you have mr. hernandez on tape. but nothing to prove that claudia said this in motion? we have the motive, the contentious divorce proceeding. we had the time of this. what happens is that the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be falls on april 12th, i believe, of 2000. the hit occurs about a month or a week after that. all of that is circumstantial? i agree. but soon, there was more. prosecutors said the handwriting on the hit note matched claudia haro s. and when prosecutors compared samples to cloudiness land letters to garrett, they would know it is just a typo
no, i don t know. but while there was evidence enough to charge claudia, was there enough to convict her? you have mr. cures is the mission, and then you have mr. hernandez on tape. but nothing to prove that claudia said this in motion? we have the motive, the contentious divorce proceeding. we had the time of this. what happens is that the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be falls on april 12th, i believe, of 2000. the head occurs about a month or a week after that. all of that is circumstantial? i agree. but soon, there was more. prosecutors said the handwriting on the hit note matched claudia haro s. and when prosecutors compared samples to cloudiness land letters to garrett, they would know it is just a typo