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Long beach was in the dark. no one seriously believed what the police now firmly believed that fred schockner ordered and paid for his own wife's murder. as charlie's uncle mark said -- >> never in my wildest dreams, even after she was killed, because the circumstances, nothing pointed at fred. and the police did not point at fred. >> reporter: but, said detective richard birdsall, they had their reasons. >> we used them in a lot of respects. and you felt guilty because they're beating their chests. and they're upset. and they had no idea that the father of charlie is the one that set the whol...

Hulk as a child, incredible hulk. and he said that he had taken steroids just to get bigger and, you know, stronger. and you know, it's was very hard for the jury to have sympathy for him. >> reporter: and they didn't. the jury found him guilty in about 35 minutes. first-degree murder and burglary. next was frank jaramillo. >> he said that he wouldn't have done it had schockner not threatened his wife and his in-laws. >> reporter: so this was -- he did it out of fear then? >> yeah, he said, literally, he said on the stand that he had sacrificed his life for his family, when we all know that he...

And his wife, susan, even though they did not tell mark about their suspicion. >> i was surprised, i am still to this day, that fred allowed that to happen, but he did. >> reporter: perhaps fred had more pressing things to think about. whatever his reason he put charlie on a plane to georgia just in time for the main event in the murder investigation. frank jaramillo, under arrest as the alleged middleman, was spilling it all, telling police he took money from lynn's husband. a lot of it. and used a little of it to hire the killer, nick harvey. and then, with a little polite arm-twisting, fran...

That must be going through him. and then the old man who didn't look like he was doing particularly well either. >> reporter: did he look frightened or something? >> yeah, they both looked scared. they both looked like trapped rats on a burning ship, you know? >> reporter: and as they feared, fred was suspicious. he sat down, said not a word. but he'd written something on his notepad. >> at which point, fred schockner lifted that note up that says, "are you wired?" >> i'm not. >> very possible. >> i thought he was going to walk, you know? i thought, you know, this guy's going to come to his se...

>> it was terrifying. to know that it was actually going to happen, that this was the culmination of everything. it was a lot of emotion. >> also a way of saying good-bye to him. >> yeah. yeah. >> through all of this fred schockner maintained his innocence. in fact, even before his trial began fred did carry out a threat he added right after the murder. he launched a lawsuit against the long beach police department for not protecting his wife, lynn. >> he went to the city and filed a claim, which is a precursor to a lawsuit, against the city of long beach, blaming the long beach police departm...