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mcclancy lying dead in his recliner in 2006. >> but it was it like to see those pictures? >> disturbing. >> here where the pictures that told an entirely different story to what shawn and jen. you >> one picture, bob would have a pistol, and in another picture he would have a bottle of pills in the other. and another picture, bob would have a bottle of pills and nothing in the other. hand >> it was odd how he was in the chair. the way his leg was placed, looking back at, that you could tell that that was body manipulation. >> the pictures didn't appear to be police photos because they were all apparently taken before any police arrived on the scene. >> so you called the? cops >> right away. >> shawn, conflicted, was suddenly faced with the prospect that he may be implicating his own mom. torn, he called nate, the va investigator, and begin to tell him all about bob mcclancy's death in 2006. >> he said i want to talk to
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>> but, they wanted to be sure. if there was a murder conspiracy, maybe a son could find out from his mother. >> they decided to recruit sean, get him to wear a wire, plus a call to his mother martha and. and ask her what she knew about the photos. shown agreed. >> so, he was willing to make a phone call and we gave him a recording device. >> what's it like to phone your mother knowing that you are going to be putting her on the spot that way on tape with somebody listening? >> well, it had to be done. >> were you nervous? >> i was nervous -- but at the same time, -- >> you've got an ill. >> you have to know. >> shawn's wife jen was listening as the call began. >> we talked for about 45 minutes to one hour. >> he is like, hey mom, the kids were on the computer over the weekend, when i got in the
something but weren't able to substantiate anything through charges being able to stick. >> but the nate, maybe chuck was up to his lying eyeballs and mcclancy's death. >> it gave you the sense of, whoever said -- set this up and whoever took these pictures was very evil. >> chuck had taken the pictures. but what were they doing on the computer shawn got from his mother, martha ann? then, nate and the state investigators who joined him, they came up with the plan. they'd put sean and jen on the spot. they would get sean to spy on his mom. shawn was about to become an undercover agent. coming up -- what's it like to phone your mother knowing that you are going to be putting her on paper? >> it had to be done.
you and conned you all these years. >> absolutely. she took me four complete sucker. >> chuck to. >> he would go and present the flags to the widow of a veteran who had lost his life. that is cruel. the people that he took in under that do not deserve that. >> and it wasn't long before sean and jen were reading online and disbelief about shawn's own mother martha ann caught in and outrageous fraud with chalk. >> we found out the day after that they were arrested on eight federal indictments. >> that's how you found? >> out that's how we found. out >> major hard stop. >> very overwhelming. >> martha ann stole her dead husband's valor. >> she never says shared a single day in any armed services. she assumed bob's purple heart and told these veterans groups
loved animals. but the menagerie was too much for martha and. so her son, shawn, helped her downsize. >> bob had an animal rescue in his home. he had seven dogs. a couple of cats, chickens, some goats. she started to get rid of all of these animals as soon as he had passed away. >> then there were other changes. weeks after bob's death, martha and invited debbie and her husband to celebrate chuck's birthday. dinner at chuck's place. >> when we got there, martha and dining room set was in chucks dining room. >> what did you think when you saw that? >> i said, your furniture is up here? and she said it's certainly suits his house a whole lot better than mine. >> but they are just? friends >> they are friends. they are. friends >> still, how close were they getting? >> i called her one day and i
♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ relationship with his mother martha ann, was never particularly warm. martha ann wasn't exactly the cuddly protective type. >> i think i was more scared of my mom, looking back. remember, shawn had been adopted as an infant by martha ann and her first husband and quick to punish if you crossed a line. >> he knew it was a, your life was not going to be as pleasant for a period of time. >> what did you think when you saw her treating sean that way? >> it made me angry. >> even so, shawn tried to stay
bob was a man of right. he was a detective, he was a marine. he would fight for justice for strangers, and there was no way that he was going to go down like that and be silenced that way. >> but, there was one more piece of unfinished business. sean, remember, was adopted. >> i had always been told that i would never find out where i was actually from. or who my birth parents would be. >> even after a florida court denied him access to his adoption records, it was determined to find his birth parents. he ended up getting in tension with ancestry dna. what do you know? >> we basically hit the bull's-eye, immediately. >> wow. >> which is crazy. >> they found his birth father, living in maine. >> it feels amazing, overwhelming. >> not long after for speaking with his birth father, shawn traveled to meet him.