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Outside the long beach p.d., the pressure was on. >> and my department wanted a quick resolve because we have a black eye. the press was just beating us up daily because of what we did. >> reporter: so the clock was ticking. detectives needed to prove the murder-for-hire plot, and they needed to do it fast. >> so that was the whole game is trying to play cat and mouse, trying to get more. we want to get them to talk. we want to get them to communicate. >> reporter: but wasn't going to happen, by the look of it. even though, they kept talking to fred. >> we kept going to the husband. >> reporte...

And once he got out of jail, he was going to find frank and -- >> take care of him myself. >> reporter: the detectives played along, of course. let nick dream up whatever conspiracy theory made him happy. but meanwhile, they requisitioned el cubano's phone records, and they found something quite surprising. >> not only had frank jaramillo been talking with nick harvey, but he also had talked to the husband. >> reporter: fred schockner. >> fred schockner. >> reporter: fred schockner, lynn's husband of 25 years. on the surface it didn't make much sense. after all, fred had been cooperative with ...

Here she is with her two older brothers, john and mark. but lynn was not like them. >> she was a tentative girl, whereas my brother and i were very outgoing. >> their father died young. lynn often fought with her mother. >> love/hate, call it what you want. >> she got married. moved to california with a brand new husband. it didn't work out. it 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. fred schockner. he was almost 14 years older than she was. but didn't seem to matter. didn't hurt either that...

Someone to himself. >> reporter: but somehow, he'd found plenty of trouble. police started to figure out how when they subpoenaed his phone records. >> my partner discovered that there was a person that he talked to. and multiple times right before the murder. >> frank haramia? >> correct. >> reporter: frank, aka el cubano. unless, of course, he was in on it. how to find out? step one, said chris nelson, go back to nick harvey. lean on him a little bit. >> you got to talk to this guy before he gets arraigned. because once he's arraigned, you're screwed. he's going to get an attorney and his at...

>> when detective birdsall and his partner first asked him, nick gave them an answer that, frankly, still didn't make sense. >> we came at him and his initial story was i heard this is a good area. >> reporter: really? there wasn't a good area closer to home? well, then nick gave them another answer. >> he wanted to get out of his area. and he worked out at a local gym up there. he was a gym rat and he worked out with police officers and did martial arts with police officers. he felt they would recognize him. >> when he said that, did it -- did it seem plausible? >> no. it wasn't plausible at ...