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
him and that s exactly wha birdsall did released the man who admitte that he driven the man to th crime scene. but the detective had a plan we actually put knock t feed on his phone, we wanted t find out who is talking. two we have the driver, we hav the killer, now we want to fin out if there s more people involved detective birdsall don believe that harvey was dragon for, so hidden by it so he hoped that by releasing the driver and tapping his phone, he coul uncover what was really goin on there was only one problem after he was let go, the drive didn t reach out to anyone the only person ever spok to was nick harvey the driver was not part of larger group he had nothing whatever to d with lynn s murder so he was telling the truth it turns out, yes dead end. so they kept on digging into next background, and remember, this was a guy with a clea record he came off with a perfectly ordinary young man we talk to the family they were all incredulous next? family nex