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Welcome back to "date line extra." i'm craig melvin. nick harvey had already been arrested and police were circling their wagons around two additional men they believed were involved in the fatal shooting of lynn shockner. nick admitted to killing lynn but investigators thought her husband, fred, and a man known as el cubano had plot ted the attack. detectives didn't have the evidence they needed to prove it, but they were about to set their trap. once again, here is keith morrison. >> reporter: police suspected that fred shockner was the mastermind behind the murder plot of his estranged wife...

Welcome back. detectives investigating the murder of lynn shockner were leaning on nick harvey when he started talking, giving them key details, including the name of the man who hired him to kill. but why would either of these two men want lynn dead? police were about to look at some phone records and discover yet another person who appeared to be involved in this sinister plot. here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: the plan had been as simple as it was ugly. nick harvey, in exchange for just $5,000 was to kill a long beach housewife named lynn schockner, stage it like a burglary, and th...

>> it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference. >> reporter: that's what she told you? young charlie was a lucky >> uh-huh. if he's going to kill me, he'll kid to grow up in a place like kill me. bixby knolls. restraining orders won't stop >> tree-lined streets, beautiful him. neighborhood. it's a wonderful place to grow up. >> reporter: too late now, of would ride my skateboard all around the block, take my dog course. with me. >> reporter: he was lucky, too, to have lynn for a mother. but what about charlie? the detectives, worried about his safety, called lynn's how did she make you feel? b...

She was a sitting target. >> did she understand it was dangerous for her. >> yes, yes. >> yet she went ahead and did it anyway. >> that's how important getting out of that relationship was to her. she was willing to risk her life and she told me that. >> lisa told lynn she should get a restraining order against fred. >> it wouldn't make a dam bit of difference. >> that's what he told you. >> yes. if he's going to kill me, he'll kill me. restraining orders won't stop him. >> too late now. of course, but what about charlie. the detectives worried about his safety. called lynn's brother mark. he ...

Profitable. >> what were you promised? >> what was in the house plus 2500. >> he was hired to kill and they knew it because the phone records told a very deferent story than he did. and finally, nick harvey cracked. >> i remember his words like, you guys are good. you got me. just like that. >> just like that and then he cops out. >> yes, he said. frank hired him to kill lynn shockner. gave him 2,500 up front. promised 2,500 more when the job was done. why a guy would commit murder for 5 grand was one question but a more urgent one was this, who was this really? and why would he pay a guy to k...