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Away from him. >> then finally, more than a year later, lynn hired family law attorney, lisa brandon. >> aaron: did she tell you she wanted from you. >> she wanted a fair division of the property. >> but said lisa, fred controlled all of the finances. >> so she didnt know how much money they had a a family. >> no. >> how much did they have as a family. >> including the equity in the home, probably 6 -7 million. >> which in a legal separation by california law would be split down the middle. lisa...

Burglary. next was frank. >> said he wouldnt have done it had fred not threatened his wife and his in-laws. >> so this was -- he did it out of fear then. >> yes. he said literally on the stand that he had sacrificed his life for his family when we all know that he had sacrificed lynns life for his pocket book. >> that was his defense. >> that was his defense. >> the verdict, guilty of first-degree murder. now it was freds turn. >> the man had aged at least ten years. he looked so frail. >> but t...

Tried to prevent charlie from getting his share of the estate. although he got some of the money. how he managed to spend it in prison was unclear. we wrote letters to all three of this em. nick harvey and the other two asking to hear from them what happened. fred wrote back and said he was convicted on highly skeptical circumstantial evidence and that there should have been more than enough to prove my innocence. nick, now in his 30s, called us. he has matured in prison, he says. was mad at the...

Only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve back & muscle. all day strong. all day long. police suspected fred was the master mind behind the murder for hire plot of his wife. they still didnt have enough evidence to make an arrest. kept dropping in on fred. all very nonthreatening. then finally asked if he happened to know anyone in the area where the hitman lived. fred said, yes, he did.

Answering, right? >> like i said, its pretty simple case, but our. >> hold on a second, the other line is ringing. >> in the middle of the conversation, fred got another call from frank. fred puts them on hold. continues to speak with the detective. even offering a theory about the killer, harvey. >> you know, the kid may have been someone that was associated with the lock change. it may have been someone that was associated with someone she met and tried to help. >> exactly. >> fred hung up wit...

Install protection actually came back to rob her 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. >> sure. >> wealthy homes. >> and she had the worst impossible luck in that he picked her. >> yes. >> and now the family came together in grief. and when he saw fred -- >> we hugged. traded condolences. within five or ten minutes...

Fred always managed to monopolize the conversation and somehow stick mark with the deal. >> cheap, totally opinionated, absolutely self-involved. >> so when he invited lynn and charlie to visit him in georgia. >> i basically told my sister not to bother to bring him. stay as long as she wanted, but leave her old man at home. >> on one of those victims mark told lynn exactly how he felt. >> i said how can you let someone run your life and forget about yourself? >> afterward he sat down and wrote ...

Fred, frank, aka, el cubano had so many possibilities. he just recently married a wonderful woman, a schoolteacher. had no idea what her husband had done or what he was facing, but it was too late for that. frank did not go home to his wife that evening. he submitted to a pair of handcuffs and was carted off to jail. fred, well, fred did go home under the watchful eye of the undercover cops. who also conducted add thorough search of the restaurant for those notes fred wrote. they found nothing. ...

Hire plot and needed to do it fast. >> we were trying to get them to talk and get them to communicate. >> but wasnt going to happen by the looks of it: even though they kept talking to fred. >> we kept going to the husband. >> playing dumb, of course, but hoping he would panic and call el cubano. >> were calling every day. trying to give a reason so he wouldnt get more suspicious. >> just one more question, sir. >> exactly. felt like columno. >> this was a game, of course. with deadly consequenc...

The man he knew, he said, was frank. just a guy he met when frank managed the jim in long beach. the guy said fred had brought a used bmw from frank for $25,000. he was going to deliver the car when he returned from overseeing business trip. in new delhi. of course the phone records knew perfectly well frank was in fact at home. about 50 miles north of long beach in woodland hill. fred kept talking and ever more chatty volunteered he had lent frank more than $100,000. which made sense, given wha...