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After nearly a month of painstaking investigation, detectives had engineered a face-to-face meeting between the murder middleman frank jaramillo and the suspected mastermind, lynn schockner's husband, fred. this is where frank would attempt to get fred to say something to incriminate himself. except 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 van. there he was. >> the guys outside saw him kind of casing the place to make sure he wasn't being -- he was already really p...

The department when this happened? >> they [ bleep ] up. >> detective richard birdsall, used to asking tough questions suddenly found himself answering them. you would think that the department would kind of adopt a bit of a defensive stance at this point. because you know the public's going to say, what the hell was going on here? why did you guys let that happen, right? >> yeah, they did, you know, because they're trying to defend the officers. and they didn't do anything wrong. you were waiting for someone to bring you the key. they waited a short period of time, within a minute. you know, ...

And he's like, i don't know what you're talking about. >> i've never met any guy named john. >> yeah, you know, i come into the room a few minutes later and -- >> whoops. >> yeah. it was like the oh look of the century like. >> then he realized you're a cop. >> yeah. he just hung his head and he just looked sick. i think the whole world came crashing down at that point. >> you could see the look in his eyes, like, the deer in the headlights. and then he just started giving it all up. coming up -- >> he would want to beat you with a belt and he would try to prevent it. >> and he would beat he...

I mean, just jaramillo's tired looking and, you know, you can imagine the amount of stress that must be going through him. and then the old man who didn't look like he was doing particularly well either. >> did he look frightened or something? >> yeah, they both looked scared. they both looked like trapped rats on a burning ship, you know? >> and as they feared, fred was suspicious. he sat down, said not a word. but he'd written something on his note pad. >> at which point, fred schockner lifted that note up that says, "are you wired?" >> i'm not. >> very possible. >> i thought he was going to...

If it had gone to court, you would have had yourjustice. there were two key moments which prevented that, according to the report. in 2000, police didn't pass the statements of mark and another man to prosecutors. that was "serious and inexcusable", the inquiry found. in 2006, a prosecutor decided not to push ahead with the investigation, a decision which was "unsound and strategically flawed". this is very recent history. it's not 50, 60 years ago. it would never be acceptable, but we're talking about - investigations that failed i to properly pursue multiple allegations of child sexual abuse...