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Just you're going to where you belong. >> that would be a pretty scary moment. a nervous making moment. >> it was terrifying to know it was actually going to happen. that this is culmination of everything. it was a lot of emotion. >> also you're saying good-bye to him. >> yeah. >> through all of this, shock ner maintained his innocence and in fact, even before his trial began, fred did carry out a threat 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 law...

>> she was a tentative girl, where as my brother and i were very outgoing. >> their father died young. lynn often fought with her mother. >> co-dependent, love-hate, call it what you want. >> she got married, moved to california with a brand new husband that didn't workout. ended pretty quickly, but then one day she went to a ball game, dodgers versus somebody, who knows, and she found him. the right guy. her guy. he was almost 14 years older than she was but didn't matter. and fred was a very successful man. anyway, this time it clicked. they had an intimate wedding on a boat off the californ...

Detectives believe it was just the opposite. >> i think fred shocker in wanted to own him in some way. >> frank already had the $100,000. now he's on the hook. >> big time to fred. when fred says to get off the hook, you're going to make this happen. then slate wiped clean. >> yes. >> abolition of all debt. >> in the detective's views, fred was the master mind. >> when fred michigan calling the cops to play mr. cooperative, they recorded every word. >> hello, this is fred. there has never been anything razz bad as this in my life. i hope there never will be, but

Was killed, the circumstances, nothing pointed at fred. and the police did not point at fred. >> they had their reasons. >> we use them in a lot of respects and you feel guilty because they're beating their chest and they're upset. they had no idea the father of charlie is the one who set the whole thing up. >> remember, maybe some idea. >> i always had my suspicions. >> in spite of the fact it was a burglar and the police said it was a burglar, you still suspected your father. >> i didn't want to put it past him as much as a did you don't want to suspect someone of that. it just seem ed falls...

Pressing things to think about. whatever his reason, he put charlie on a plane for georgia just in time for the main event of the murder investigation. frank, under arrest as the alleged middle man, was spilling it all. telling police he took money from lynn's husband. a lot of and it used a little to hire the killer. and then with a little polite arm twisting, frank agreed to set a trap for the suspected master mind: fred. >> did you promise him something. >> didn't promise him anything. no. >> so why would he do it. >> i think in his mind, because we had got him on everything else, he was tr...