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He could perhaps write up a report, be done with it, make the bad press go away. but no, richard was a troubled man. >> usually, we know something's wrong. my partner and i just feel something's wrong but we don't know yet. >> wrong? well, of course it was. but the wrong the detective had in mind was not the grief or the loss or the vitriol thrown at the police. no. it was almost like a smell. the kind that sticks in your nose. something off. coming up. one of the strangest things of all was the alleged killer himself. not your typical burglar. >> in his words, he always wanted to be a cop. ...

To arrest him for lynn's murder. so they decided to focus on suspected middle man, frank jaramillo, el cubano. undercover cop kris nelson had a plan. to set a trap, to make frank believe he was about to be fingered by the hit man, nick harvey. so he'd phone frank, and portray himself as -- >> a relative of nick's with a past of my own, not particularly liking cops, you know, i'm the one that can keep nick quiet. and what are you going to give me in exchange for that? you're going to give me money. >> reporter: afraid frank would recognize the trap and hang up on him, detective nelson elected t...

And his wife, susan, even though they did not tell mark about their suspicion. >> i was surprised, i am still to this day, that fred allowed that to happen, but he did. >> reporter: perhaps fred had more pressing things to think about. whatever his reason he put charlie on a plane to georgia just in time for the main event in the murder investigation. frank jaramillo, under arrest as the alleged middleman, was spilling it all, telling police he took money from lynn's husband. a lot of it. and used a little of it to hire the killer, nick harvey. and then, with a little polite arm-twisting, fran...

>> 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, ...

>> there was concern that there were others that might come back to more houses and more homes and that they were violent. >> reporter: but that fear soon turned to anger when another bit of news swept through bixby knolls. the police let the driver go. coming up. detectives were convinced nick harvey did not have a motive to commit murder. but just maybe someone else did. >> my partner discovered that there was a person that he talked to multiple times right before the murder. >> when "the trap" continues. sure. sometimes i wish i had legs like you. yeah, like a regular person. no. still ha...