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Painstaking investigation, detectives had engineered a face to face meeting between the murder middle man and the suspected master mind. lynn's husband, fred. this is where they would attempt to get frank to say something that would incriminate himself. fred was late. had he finally realized they were laying a trap. 7:30, 7:33, 7:35. nothing. if he didn't show, this could all fall apart. then, a signal from the surveillance guy. there he was. >> the guys outside saw him coming, casing the place, make sure he wasn't being -- he was already really paranoid about being set up. came in with note p...

John? it's our understanding you gave him some money and he's like, i don't know what you're talking about. i've never met any guy named john. >> i come in the room a few minutes later. it was like the look of the century. >> rerealialized you're a cop. yes. just hung his head and he just looked sick. like the whole world came crashing down. >> you could see the look in his eyes like a deer in a headlight and he just started giving it all up. >> coming up. >> she would try to prevent and it that would produce an argument between them. >> and then he would beat her. >> at home with fred, behi...

So much sympathy and so much activity just surrounding it, it's unbelievable. >> just as the cops had been hoping, fred and frank talked, but not a word from either one to establish they were involved in a murder. >> we had like 60 plus phone conversations between them. >> you're tapping in them all. >> yes. >> but they just didn't slip up. it was time, the detectives decided, to launch the undercover squad led by chris n knollson. >> i was armed with information now. nick harvey told the homicide guys what's up. they told me. so now if you're frank and fred, your biggest concern is that nick ...

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 ...

When a few years later after a quarter century of marriage, lynn told him they were splitting and fred moved out of the house in bixby knolls. >> did she change somehow after your father left? >> she seemed freer. she seemed happier. more able to get excited, just really interested in everything and very light hearted. >> but her happiness was short lived. and when mark first heard she was murdered, his mind went to a very dark place. could fred have had something to do with it? but as much as he disliked fred, he couldn't see it. >> there were no connections in their personal life to this per...