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Wasnt acting. maybe he wasnt. >> oh,really. then who wanted her dead? me? answer me that question. who wanted her [ bleep ] dead? not me. >> the tension between the two seemed to reach a breaking point. >> allowto us to think and talk together. you keep on saying this over and over. fred, why dont you just go home. thank you very much. and ill tell nick the same. have a good evening, fred. why dont you leave, bud. have a good evening. thank you for everything. whatever money i owe you, ill pay y...

7:30 bud. thank you, bye. >> less than two hours later. frank, wearing the same hidden camera the detective used to catch him, walked into the restaurant to meet fred. >> i set him up with the camera and the audio and we got a table and a couple tables way, three of us to make sure he didnt run sg you h . >> you had your eyes on him. >> yes, we wanted to see everybodys reaction. we had audio and surveillance outside listening to everything. >> coming up. one problem. 7:30 came and went. minutes ...

That grew up to be charlie. they encouraged him to try new things. >> on the olympics we were watching and i told my parents i want to do that and a month later i enrolled in gymnastics. it was a very much supportive environment. >> and lynn doted on her only son. >> she loved him more than life itself. he was the center of her universe. >> so after what happened, mark flew out to california right away to comfort charlie and fred and to make funeral arrangements for his only sister, lynn. and at...

Including four police officers. authorities expected to release more information sunday on a t shooting suspect robert bowers who faces dozens of criminal charges including committing a hate crime. condemned anti-semitism at a rally friday before delivering campaign speech to supporters. back to dateline. nearly a month after lynn was taken down. the killer was behind doors, but her husband fred was still a free man. back at home with charlie. no one seriously believed, but the police now firm...

I mean, just tired looking, you can manage the amount of stress that must be going through him. and then the old man who didnt look like he was doing particularly well either. >> did he look fright ntd ened something. >> they both looked scared. >> and as they feared, fred was suspicious. he sat down, said not a word, but he had written something on his note pad. at which point, said are you wired. >> im not. >> its very possible. >> i thought he was going to walk. i thought he -- this guy is go...

Just youre going to where you belong. >> that would be a pretty scary moment. a nervous making moment. >> it was terrifying to know it was actually going to happen. that this is culmination of everything. it was a lot of emotion. >> also youre saying good-bye to him. >> yeah. >> through all of this, shock ner maintained his innocence and in fact, even before his trial began, fred did carry out a threat right after the murder. he launched a lawsuit against the long beach police department for not...

>> she was a tentative girl, where as my brother and i were very outgoing. >> 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 that didnt workout. 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. he was almost 14 years older than she was but didnt matter. and fred was a very suc...

Detectives believe it was just the opposite. >> i think fred shocker in wanted to own him in some way. >> frank already had the $100,000. now hes on the hook. >> big time to fred. when fred says to get off the hook, youre going to make this happen. then slate wiped clean. >> yes. >> abolition of all debt. >> in the detectives views, fred was the master mind. >> when fred michigan calling the cops to play mr. cooperative, they recorded every word. >> hello, this is fred. there has never been anyt...

Was killed, the circumstances, nothing pointed at fred. and the police did not point at fred. >> they had their reasons. >> we use them in a lot of respects and you feel guilty because theyre beating their chest and theyre upset. they had no idea the father of charlie is the one who set the whole thing up. >> remember, maybe some idea. >> i always had my suspicions. >> in spite of the fact it was a burglar and the police said it was a burglar, you still suspected your father. >> i didnt want to ...

Pressing things to think about. whatever his reason, he put charlie on a plane for georgia just in time for the main event of the murder investigation. frank, under arrest as the alleged middle man, was spilling it all. telling police he took money from lynns husband. a lot of and it used a little to hire the killer. and then with a little polite arm twisting, frank agreed to set a trap for the suspected master mind: fred. >> did you promise him something. >> didnt promise him anything. no. >> s...