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>> no, no, no. >> reporter: fred picked up the phone. >> hello? >> hello. >> hello. >> you there? >> yeah, what's going on bud? >> nothing much. >> reporter: and they agreed to meet 7:30 in the evening at a local restaurant. >> i'll try to be there on time. >> all right, bud, thats all. i'll see you around 7:30, bud. >> right. >> okay, bye. >> reporter: less than two hours later, frank, wearing the same hidden camera that the detective used to catch him, walked in to the restaurant to meet fred schockner. >> i set him up with the camera and the audio. and we got a table, a couple tables away, ...

Frequent, unpredictable rages. abuse. a mother desperately trying to protect him. and so he would want to beat you with a belt, and she would try to prevent it, and that would produce an argument between them? >> and then he would beat her. >> reporter: how often? >> often enough that as a child i knew what was going on. but then, that was normal, so i didn't know it was wrong. >> reporter: you thought all families were like that? >> until i had friends really come over, and they noticed stuff, and it was weird for them to notice things and to comment on it. but yeah, it was always just that's...

Conducted a thorough search of the restaurant for those notes fred wrote. they found nothing. nor did fred contact anyone else that evening. and so the next morning -- >> we just showed up 9:00 in the morning and caught him in his pajamas. and disheveled. i mean, you could tell he hadn't slept a lot that night. >> reporter: he look shocked, worried, upset? >> very shocked and very upset. why were we there? and, you know, our response is, "we're here to arrest you." >> reporter: they took him away, and when they searched his house they found one last piece of evidence in a trash can. one of tho...

>> wait a minute, it's their fault because they didn't prevent me from killing my wife? >> that's right. exactly. >> the claim was rejected. but now, on the day of his sentencing, he tried the same argument again. >> chutzpah. >> yes. that was the judge's response too. he called it soefistry. and he called him a disgusting human being. and he did not mince words. >> fred was sentenced to life without parole. they all were. >> in a few sentences what you think the motive in this murder was. >> money. >> in one word apparently. >> for whatever reason. 3 or 4 million was not enough for manfred sc...

Because now he's scared. >> reporter: back at the restaurant frank waited for an all clear signal from the detectives. and the waiter, who'd frequently served the schockner family, stopped by to reminisce about lynn. >> she's very nice, very funny. >> reporter: putting frank in a very uncomfortable spot. >> there's nothing that anybody can say, so. >> reporter: he wasn't able to complete his thought, and soon fred would be having a very different kind of conversation with the police. coming up, what a mess. and fred forgot to clean up. >> didn't throw his trash in time. >> nope. >> when "the...