and wound up killing her? after all, such a person would have seen that lynn had valuable things around her house in this very nice neighborhood. the neighborhood had everything a burglar wanted to find. private yards. reporter: sure. alexa, play queen on amazon music. wealthy homes. those darn seatbelts got me all crumpled up. that s ok! hey, guys! reporter: and she had the worst of possible luck in that hi mrs. patterson. he picked her. yes. reporter: and now, the family came together in grief. wrinkles send the wrong message. and when he saw fred sorry. help prevent them before they start with new downy wrinkleguard. we hugged, traded condolences. within five or ten minutes, he mentioned the letter. he said, do you still believe that? i said, no, that s water over the bridge. we need to get on with our family. we need to stick together. reporter: fred moved back into the family home. he and charlie and the rest of the family leaned on each other. while around the
so she didn t know how much money they had as a family? no, no idea. reporter: how much money did they have, this family? well, including the equity in the home, probably $6 million to $7 million. reporter: which in a legal separation by california law would be split down the middle. but lisa said lynn told her fred would never part with any of that money. lynn also told her about fred s physical abuse. and so with a pending separation lisa worried about lynn and charlie s safety. i wanted her to move out of the home with charlie. she wouldn t do it. she wouldn t leave her home. she wouldn t disrupt charlie. he was just starting high school. they d lived in the neighborhood forever. so she was a sitting target. reporter: did she understand that it was dangerous for her? yes, yes. reporter: and yet, she went ahead and did it anyway? that s how important getting out of that relationship was to her. she was willing to risk her life, and she told me that. reporter: lisa
nick s family because you have reporter: to make a complete all my cash. family, a desire that only intensified once charlie came along. so if you want to give me the she wanted her son to be the cash, i m give it back to you best person he could be. and would stop at nothing to make sure that he got that. and you can do what you want. reporter: and that was it. reporter: around bixby knolls maybe not exactly the words detective birdsall hoped to the schockners were considered a hear, but after weeks of dead ends and intense pressure, perfectly normal, if upscale, getting fred on tape saying family. those things finally made his certainly not the kind of people case. who would be targeted by drug what was the mood in the van you were sitting in? dealers. of course, members of the family it was elation. we got enough. had a slightly more intimate reporter: finally, enough perspective. evidence to arrest him. mark, for example, loved his but they didn t. sister but found fred
reporter: that s quite a place to get to in life, when you re happy that your father s been arrested for murder, the murder of your mother, mind you. yeah. it s reporter: i mean no one wants to no one would want to actually say, gosh, yeah, that s a good thing, but after everything growing up with him in the house, it seems like a little bit of justice. reporter: almost three years after lynn s death the three men charged with her murder finally went on trial. and detective richard birdsall and undercover cop kris nelson, both retired now, were there. it s always nice to see a case all the way through, and see it in, you know, in my opinion, see people get, you know, get what they got coming to them. reporter: do they give you a special weird look? you now when they walked into court the only one that looked good that day, like rested and
reporter: and lynn doted on her only son. it might be trite to say this, but she loved him more than life itself. he was the center of her nearly a month after lynn universe. reporter: so after what schockner was cut down at her happened, mark flew out to california right away to comfort charlie and fred, and to make own back door her killer was behind bars, but her husband funeral arrangements for his fred was still a free man and only sister lynn. back in the family home with charlie. and at the very same time, as if in another world altogether, a world devoted to the minutia of the press was in the dark. violent crime, detective richard long beach was in the dark. birdsall poked around the entrails of this burglary gone no one seriously believed what the police now firmly believed bad. that fred schockner ordered and paid for his own wife s murder. he could perhaps write up a as charlie s uncle mark said report, be done with it, make never in my wildest dreams, even after