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Solving lynn's murder would take years and involve tapping phones and hidden cameras. and long held family secrets would be revealed. here's keith morrison. >> you never think it's going to be you. >> oh, no. no, no, no. >> no. the young man is right. in fact, this is just the kind of thing that doesn't happen to anyone. >> no, never would have thought i would have ever seen anything like this. >> no, and not here. not in this neighborhood in this house. but certainly not, surely not at the very moment when at least three policemen were just outside the front door and just over the backyard wa...

Several cops responded, were there in minutes. and as they talked to the 911 caller, they heard and saw a little white dog barking incessantly from a window at the schockners' house. it was a little american eskimo or something that's called. >> yeah, not a very large dog. yap, yap, yappie dog. >> reporter: a petite-framed woman came to the window to see what her dog was barking at. an officer gestured to her, come outside. clearly bewildered, she finally opened the door. >> so he is telling her that they got a call from a neighbor that they saw a prowler. and would it be okay if they looked i...

Their outdoor bath that morning in june, someone was watching. her. >> i got up at 6:00. got my coffee. >> lindsay patterson was on leave from her i.t. job in the navy, visiting her mom who lives just over the backyard wall from the hall house. lindsay was inside, in the bathroom that faced away from the hall house and out onto the street, when she heard a noise. >> it was a horrible scream. it was just, something was wrong kind of scream. >> a woman's, she thought. she went outside to tell her mom. i said, did you hear that scream? she said, yeah, but i think it's just kids playing in the -- ...

Little white dog barking incessantly from a window at the schockners' house. it was a little american eskimo or something that's called. >> yeah, not a very large dog. >> reporter: yap, yap, yap, yap. >> yappie dog. >> reporter: a petite-framed woman came to the window to see what her dog was barking at. an officer gestured to her, come outside. clearly bewildered, she finally opened the door. >> so he is telling her that they got a call from a neighbor that they saw a prowler. and would it be okay if they looked in her backyard and looked around the house. and she had said that that was fine....

The very moment when at least three policemen were just outside the front door and just over the backyard wall not more than 30 feet away. >> we had to be told a few times just to get it in our heads what happened. >> reporter: what happened here in broad daylight under the very noses of the cops was murder. long beach, california. a town that may have been cheated a little in the city pride department. >> a lot of people assume it's like l.a., but it's not. it's different. it has its own identity. >> reporter: do you think it's different culturally? or just -- >> i think so. i think long beac...