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how and why would garrett finger him as the shooter? hoon chung knew he had more work to do. >> you have a guy stop for a drug charges, he has a map hidden in his car of somebody who was nearly a murder victim and a photograph of that guy. >> right. >> and the guy picks him out. >> right. and you think what's the question, right? >> are there people in death row for less than that? >> sometimes there is more to a story that meets the eye. which is the case here. >> investigators discovered another picture of garrett warren, this one of him and the man he accused of shooting him. >> coming up, this is one of those stranger than fiction kind of things. certainly nobody would write a script like this. >> when dateline continues. (tonya) smoking damaged my heart. now i have a battery-operated heart pump. my tip is stop thinking this can only happen when you get old. my heart failure happened at 38. (announcer) you can quit. for free help, call 1-800-quit-now. with amazon's back to school deals, you can save money by spending less of it. makes sense! oh, i see what you did there! - what? - what?
that slaing. it means, take him out, it means kill. >> manny a small time criminal, was pointing the finger of guilt at his sister, an actress and mother who was in hollywood star dumb and who had never had problem with the law. this was hard to believe, except for the intended victim of the murder plot, who believe that claudia was behind it from the get-go. >> there is only one person who wanted this done to me. >> he felt this way even as investigations pointed in every direction, until finally, five years after the shooting, detectives arrested claudia haro. >> i do think to myself, thank god. finally i don't feel crazy anymore. >> but he was in for another shock. prosecutors did not feel the case was strong enough. because manny haro had not agreed to testify against claudia. at the da's office declined to file charges. >> yeah but that's not the worst of it.
nobody ever talk to her about whacking someone, or murdering someone, or shooting someone. >> mesereau was ready with those arguments and more. and who knows where the jury might have done. >> remember the movie "my cousin vinny" where joe pesci plays a lawyer who gets his client an acquittal of charges? well, this movie didn't end that way. on the eve of trial, claudia decided not to fight the charges. she pleaded no contest to two counts of attempted murder. she received a sentence of 12 years and four months. >> claudia's friend julie. >> on the deal that she is offered, she will be out in a few years and see her daughter grow up. >> that's why she took it. >> and after her sentencing, joe pesci supported his ex-wife and showed up. as for what miguel quiroz and jorge hernandez, they got plea deals. haro was sentenced to life in prison, with possibility of parole. he was released in july 2017.
he defended michael jackson. the picture of her is that she's eventual woman who would stop at nothing to keep her daughter way from ex-husband. >> never give you that information does not know claudia haro. >> mesereau says that if she's guilty of anything, we it is because she has a criminal for a brother. >> if -- and then when you got caught, he try to blame it on his sister to try and gain freedom for himself. >> not only that, he said, but those hit notes allegedly written by claudia? >> i am convinced these are forgeries. claudia never wrote any hit note to anybody.
i was proud to call garrett and say, guess what, i have arrested claudia for hiring a hit man to kill you. >> and then you have to call them back and say. >> i can't put it back to jail. >> 48 hours after they had arrested claudia, she was back on the street, back and free once again. >> i will not stop. >> what will it take to write a new ending to the story? with a new role for the beauty that, investigators believe, were there femme fatale. or would claudia escape their prosecution, simply denying that she was involved? >> the lying is not about saying the words, the words need to make sense, and when they don't make sense, you can have a problem. >> it's a lot tougher than people think it is? >> it's a lot tougher them but
a misspelling of the word a gura. the word is -- the word is misspelled in the exact same way. claudia insisted that she had never given any notes or -- maps to miguel quiroz. >> know that i can think of, and no. >> so if we had, someone's address written in your handwriting? >> i don't know. not for me. i don't know. >> she claimed to know very little about what her brother manny haro might have been up to. >> why would your brother, who had never even met garrett, want to kill him? >> i don't know. that's not -- >> why would he tell us that you're the one that asked him if he'd kill and help arrange it? >> i don't know. >> did you ever give your brother a large amount of money?
"the plot thickens". >> faith in, los angeles county, california. was garrett warren was gunned down, shot four times in his own home, but somehow survived. if it is character, really. a hollywood stuntman, martial artist, and former fighter. not only did he survive, he was able to identify a shooter. a man who had been caught with what looked like a hit note in his car. and they tell you his name is miguel quiroz? >> yes. >> did that name mean anything to you? >> not at the time at all. >> it's needed at first like a strong case. but the more law enforcement and prosecutor chun investigated, the less clear became. >> you did a lot of work and was somewhat you did was help prove your defendants alibi? >> sure, so far. >> remember, multiple witnesses put miguel quiroz about 80 miles away from garret's home
who takes the fall. and as for the money, we will get to that. let's start with the biggest name on the marquee, joe pesci. famous for his roles as a cold blooded killer. this drauma would costar pesci ex-wife, who appeared with pesci in the film casino. it includes claudia's brother, now the nectar, but an actual tough guy who did time in prison. and someone who harbored a terrible secret in his past. and finally, claudia second husband, garrett warner, a hollywood stuntman in martial arts expert, a man very familiar with danger. faith in. early evening in the quiet lake of west lake village, california, outside of l. a.. stunned then gary warner heard
the hired gunman jorge hernandez was tried and convicted on -- he's serving a sentence of 77 years to life. claudia serve just more than nine years before being granted parole in august of 2019. if claudia did mastermind this attempted murder, she ended up getting a very good deal. claudia's brother, manny who set it up, and the actual shooter, both pretty much get maxed out on their sentences. >> the amount of time you spend behind bars is nothing to what i believe will be eternity afterwards. and i believe that we all pay, one day, no matter what. >> you seem remarkably free of anger. >> i am. and everyone should be in this world. she made a mistake. i've made mistakes. no one's perfect. >> surprised? you should not be. that trifecta of love, money, and murder is not new to hollywood. neither are stories about
>> no. >> any amount whatsoever? >> i don't think i've ever had a large amount of money. >> as we said, every hollywood story eventually comes back to money. if claudia haro paid somebody ten grand to ice garrett, where did she get the cash? detectives took a good look at her other ex husband, tough guy actor joe pesci. remember that party snapshot of garrett and middleman miguel quiroz and their kids? that was taken at the hollywood hills home of joe pesci. >> we actually interviewed joe pesci and we just wanted to ask if he gave her a large sum of money at that time, he denied that he ever gave her a large amount. there was no evidence to indicate that he had any involvement. >> claudia haro said she wanted to do an interview with us, but we were not able to speak with her in jail. we spoke with her defense attorney, tom mesereau.