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your life passes before your eyes? you think about everything, and you wonder-- he was a hollywood stunt man, but this was no hollywood stunt. >> this was a hit. >> shot four times and left dying on the floor. >> somebody definitely wanted him dead. >> but who and why? you will need lots of possible suspects. >> oh my gosh. >> including his ex-wife, an actress once married to movie mobster, joe pesci. but, she had a strong alibi. >> i don't know. >> that's only the start of the twist in this hollywood mystery. >> this is one of those stranger than fiction things. nobody would write this. >> stunning of all, what didn't happen. >> meat [ laughter ] that hit me hard, my mom never swore. in.

>> hello, and welcome to do dateline. here hollywood store stuntman who made his been pulling off debt-define acts. one night he opened the door for a stranger and found himself in the middle of a terrifying scene that was all too real. garrett was hooking down the barrel of a gun, moments later four shots rang out and soon investigators would be embroiled in a whodunit with more twists than a feature film. here is josh mankiewicz with "the plot thickens." >> ready, and action. >> action. thanks second only to money as

the single -most important word in hollywood. and here in la there is real- life drama that rivaled any action movie with a plot that includes all the elements of classic film now are. a mystery featuring an assassin, a femme fatale, a hollywood star-- we will get to that. let's start with the biggest name, joe pesci, famous for his roles as a cold-blooded killer. this drama would costar his ex- wife, claudia haro, a model and actress who appeared in the gangster film, casino. the supporting cast includes claudia's brother, manny, not

an actor, but a tough guy who did time in prison, and who harbors a terrible secret in his past. and finally, claudia's second husband, stunt man and martial arts expert, a man very familiar with danger. fade in early evening in that quiet town of westlake village, california, outside of la. stunt man garrett warren heard a knock on the door and a question about his silver volvo in the driveway. incomes our first plot twist. three shots into his body. one more into garrett's right eye. the daredevil's luck had run out. >> i called and his mother answered the phone screaming,

crying, just distraught. wally, wally, you aren't going to believe what happened. garrett has been shot. >> volley crowder was a fellow stunt man and garrett's good friend. >> he was a man you could count on. you hear in life you are very lucky if you have five friends, or you can count a friend on one hand. garrett was that friend to me. >> wally has been in the business for more than 30 years. >> garrett warren was probably the finest fight man you could ask for. i had hired him on several shows and got to know him, watched his expertise, phenomenal ethical stunt man-- >> you have probably seen garrett warren buffett's work, you just didn't know it, his stunt work was featured in "charlie's angels," >> garrett was a very focused

individual. people think of stuntman as daredevil's, crazy people, that's the last person i want on my job, i want the very best at what they do. >> but towards the end of 1997 wally says that focus shifted the minute garrett warren met claudia haro. >> a beautiful woman. we just wanted garrett to be happy. he found somebody he seemed like he genuinely loved and wanted to start a life with >> there was something special about her. i think people who got to know her, she has a beautiful soul, and i think men were attracted to that as much as to her beauty. >> her good friend, julie, remembers when claudia and garrett first got together. one day she says to you i met this guy-- >> yes? and she seemed so happy with him. joe and i both, we were very

supportive. >> by joe, she refers to claudia's ex-husband, a character actor who became a star by playing mafia tough guys, joe pesci. it sounds like her marriage didn't end badly to joe pesci. >> not at all, they are like family, they are very close. >> claudia stayed close to joe pesci even after she started dating garrett who came from a different part of the movie business. garrett loved action and adventure, but when he met claudia he was ready to settle down. >> we felt that this would be the gal that garrett would end up with. no more dating, no more running around. i'm going to end up with claudia. >> garrett and claudia were married less than a year after they met. >> in the beginning i think it was a very good relationship. >> oh my gosh! >> they soon had a beautiful daughter, kyla. the new couple enjoyed being parents. >> i love you guys. >> love you, too--

>> happy things like this one did not last. claudia and garrett couldn't make it work. >> it was a series of events. it just was not the right marriage. >> once the relationship went south it went fast. less than two years after their wedding claudia and garrett split up for good. >> divorce is never easy, but in the long run it was two parents trying to figure out a way to live and both see their children. >> garrett went to his old life as a stunt man, back to the set, and the world of make- believe. so then how did his life go from playing dead to bleeding out on the floor of his home, shot four times at close range? >> somebody definitely wanted him hurt or dead at the time. >> who? detective mark la county sheriff's department said, investigators looked at every angle. remembering how the gunman at first asked garrett about his brand-new volvo.

they wondered if this could be road rage, someone garrett had tangled with on the la freeways. >> mr. warren is a stunt man. >> yes. >> i'm guessing he doesn't always drive the speed limit or use his blinker when changing lanes. >> it's possible. >> or, personal? >> an ex-business partner, or somebody he was dating that was jealous? maybe an ex-husband, ex- boyfriend? there was an array of possibilities on who could have done this. >> possibilities that led from a bloody crime scene to the bright lights of the movie business, to the parts of la tourists never see. so who did want garrett warren dead? there seemed to be an entire cast of suspects. coming up. getting ready to say goodbye to a friend. >> i am going to lose my friend . he's not going to make it. i.

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josh mankiewicz (voiceover): fade in, northridge hospital, daytime. dy fade in. northridge hospital. daytime. wally crowder rushed to the bedside of his buddy, garrett warren, who had been shot with real live bullets. >> i run into garrett's mom and realized i'm going to lose my

friend. he's not going to make it. >> garrett was in critical condition. >> all these things run through your head. the time you spent together. the things that you should have said that you didn't-- it was rough. >> shot three times in the body and once through the eye all at close range. hard to imagine anyone surviving it. ready for our second twist? it's one that neither garrett's family nor the gunman saw coming. this is garrett warren today. >> thank god i am still here. i was very fortunate. i was a very lucky, very blessed. >> to the surprise of the doctors treating him garrett warren pulled through, and he lived to tell the story of the night he was almost murdered. a flashback is vivid now as it was then. there is bullet one.

>> when a bullet hits you to be honest you don't really know that it hits you, it's not like in the movies, and as i slipped to the side it went right in front of my chest, past my heart, and is still stuck in my rib cage, there. >> lit two. >> i looked down, i looked back up, and here came another one, and i slipped my head to the side, and it went straight up at my back. >> i went this is for real, i went to close the door, and he shot, it hit me here in the hip and went straight out my back. that when hit my bone, that one hurt. >> if that sounds gruesome, then hang on for what's next. >> i fell back behind my door to the ground, then he walked in and put the gun to my head. the first thing i did when i

saw him squeeze the trigger i flinched, and as i did this bullet hit me in the eye and went straight through into the wall behind my head. if it was the matrix, it was not good. that is like keanu moving in the bullet still went through. >> somehow though the bullet missed his brain. >> when they say your life passes before your eyes, it doesn't pass before your eyes, you run through it, you think about everything in your life, and you think that i make up for everything? am i ready to die? >> garrett's mother ran to see what was happening, and the gunman took a few shots at her, but missed, and then out of bullets, he fled. >> and looked at her and said i love you, mom, ioc you on the

other side. she said don't you [ bleep ] die [ laughter ] that hit me harder than the bullets, my mother swore, and she sits here and shook me, and said you fight one more time for me. and i looked at her and said all right, you got it. i'm not going to go. i'll stay. >> is garrett looked back on his life he looked back at his failed marriage with claudia haro. >> it was poetry from the things movies are made of. >> that brief marriage to each other gave them kyla . >> my daughter being born was amazing, it was the most amazing part of my life and probably one of the greatest things i can leave is my legacy i guess. >> there was nasty custody

fights, and she claimed garrett had sexually molested their daughter. after a thorough investigation a family court judge ruled there was no evidence of abuse, but it was shortly after that the gunman showed up at garrett's home, so naturally, detectives brought in claudia for questioning. >> it was just another road we went down during the investigation. like could be an training? >> she had a strong alibi and expressed concern for garrett. investigators were satisfied she wasn't involved, so they kept talking to garrett who had gotten a glimpse of the man who shot him. >> it was difficult to decipher, i was looking through the

people. nobody i had ever known before. >> the sheriff's department tried to piece together some theories. >> everything was being looked at in his life and his lifestyle, his business. >> an exciting high energy lifestyle, from the gym he owned to the circles herein in, but there was a tip he also had enemies. >> an anonymous letter kind of advising that there were people involved at the gym that garrett was having some kind of relationship with that people might be of interest to detectives that they might want to question these people. >> detectives checked everything and followed every lead, but they hit a dead end at every turn. depressing? >> a very depressing but sometimes you just need that

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[piano music] josh mankiewicz: close up-- the stunt man was gunned down in his own home but lived to tell the tale. he knew his would-be killer was still on the loose, and garrett was looking over his shoulder. >> i have a bulletproof vest on. i have invested what i can into security around my house. i am scared to death someone was going to come back and finish it. i thought chalk it up to experience, move on with life and that's it. >> and you did move on? >> i did. >> a year after his shooting garrett still faced double surgeries and painful rehab. he was back at work as a

personal trainer at the gym he owned and that's where he met isa . >> she was a client of mine. i had a rule, i don't date people at my gym. so she quit the gym. >> they married two years after the shooting , maybe the happiness brought along made it easier to get along with his first, claudia, the anger that marked their divorce had faded. >> went back to visitation schedule again, shared custody, and we are on speaking terms and are actually friendly. >> it was 18 months after garrett was shot when the tech is got that lucky break. in an unrelated case san bernardino police served a

search warrant on a car longing to a man named miguel quiroz. they found something else under the spare tire in the trunk. it was a photo of garrett warren with a circle drawn on it, and garrett's home address, which very few people knew. so detectives showed garrett a six pack, a photo lineup that included a photo of miguel quiroz. >> i say by all means, that's the guy i recognize or expect that's the guy who shot you? no doubt in your mind? >> no doubt in my mind. >> in 2003 detectives arrested miguel quiroz for attempted murder. he was neither a gang banger nor a hired gun. instead, he owned a pizza parlor. sheriffs detect div mark a mint. >> he seemed like a nice guy in the community that everybody

loves. >> garrett identified him as the shooter? >> other than garrett's id of quiroz there was nothing to suggest they had ever met. they had never done any business deal before? >> no. >> connected to the gym? any chance he was driving a car near garrett that night? >> no. none whatsoever. >> what the connection was or, why mr. quiroz would kill him, not clear? >> there was no direct connection whatsoever. >> as detectives soon learned having an attempted murder charge against miguel quiroz wouldn't be easy. multiple witnesses said they saw and spoke to quiroz at his pizza parlor on the night of the shooting. >> these witnesses were not really beholden to quiroz in any way, they were just customers? >> were frequent customers at that establishment, he had the receipts, so it was pretty good.

alibis. >> and so at quiroz's preliminary hearing evidence pointed both ways, placing him 80 miles from the scene of the crime, but why did quiroz have garrett's picture hidden in his car? why would garrett finger him as the shooter? you get a guy stopped for drug charges, he has a map in his car of somebody who was nearly a murder victim, and a photograph of that guy, and the guy picks him out. >> so you think what's the question? >> aren't there people on death row for more than that-- the men accused of shooting him. coming up.

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warren. they had been serving a search warrant on quiroz's car when they found garrett's photo and address in the trunk . garrett later id to him as the shooter, but the case against quiroz just wasn't adding up . than a closer look at the evidence led to a stunning discovery. garrett warren wasn't out of danger, yet. here again is josh mankiewicz with "the plot thickens." >> fade in, los angeles county, california. garrett warren was gunned down, shot four times in his own home but somehow survived. it fit his character, really, a hollywood stuntman, marshall artist, and former fighter. not only did he survive, but he was able to identify his shooter, a man who was caught with what looked like a hit note in his car, and they tell you his name is miguel quiroz. >> yes. >> that naming anything to

you? >> not at the time. >> it sounded like a strong case at first, but the more law enforcement and prosecutor chun investigated it became less clear. >> and eventually, really prove the alibi that he didn't do this. >> remember multiple witnesses put miguel quiroz about 80 miles from guerra's home on the night of the shooting, and then like a scene from "columbo," came a twist during a court hearing. >> miguel quiroz is left- handed, the shooter was described by witnesses, the victim and his mother as right- handed. and that is a little odd. >> because of what left-handed person would try to commit murder with a gun in his right

hand? >> it's like out of a movie. >> a scriptwriter might do something like that, but in real life, it did not make sense. >> and then prosecutor chun saw this photo taken at a barbecue. >> in this photo you have garrett warren, and he is facing miguel quiroz. their children are in front of them. we can tell from the scar on garrett warren's face underneath the left ear that this is post shooting. we can tell from the ages of the children as well as the lakers championship t-shirt mr. quiroz is wearing this is very shortly after the shooting. >> the two men were both guests at the same party after the shooting, but before garrett made his eyewitness id of quiroz. so this is where you think garrett new miguel quiroz from? that's why you think he identified him as the shooter? >> yes, classic transference. >> the photo explained the

idea. >> for some reason when i saw him it clicked and i thought that must be him. i recognize him. and obviously it wasn't him. >> so, garrett was wrong in picking quiroz is the man who shot him, and that left prosecutors with two questions, who did shoot garrett? and since he had garrett's photo in his trunk could quiroz still be involved? prosecutor chun rethought the case. >> attorneys agreed we could talk to mr. quiroz. detectives and i keep coming back to this hit note to where it's found. he does not know garrett warren. the interaction was very brief at that barbecue. >> detectives kept after quiroz. they knew whoever ordered the hit really wanted garrett warren dead. here is one more twist. the postmark on the note is from after the shooting.

it's not so much a hit note as it is going back and finishing the job. >> it's a re-hit. that was really what broke the case open. that was the lifeline we had on this case. >> the one unavoidable piece of evidence that finally cracked miguel quiroz. >> we go around and he admits that he was one of the middlemen. >> miguel quiroz admitted while he was not the shooter, he was in on the plot, and that he was caught by his own carelessness. he explained the hit note was sent directly to him, that he put it under the spare tire in the trunk of his car and literally he said he had forgotten about it. >> the reason you find the note

is that he put it there for safekeeping and forgot about it? >> certainly nobody would write a script like this, because any self-respect thing producer would have the look you are having and say come on, that's ridiculous. but, people forget things. expect this organized crime. >> yeah. >> likely for prosecutor miguel quiroz had not sworn a blood oath to never rat on his friends . quite the opposite. he rolled over like lassie and cut a deal. he agreed to deliver on co- conspirators. so the plot thickened. coming up, the world's worst hit man. >> i apologize, dude, i'm not a good shot. just get the guns or whatever and we'll finish-- finish-- even this. dupixent is an add-on treatment

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fade in, los angeles county, nighttime. a police informant wears a wire as he talks to a partner in crime. >> i know you don't have to worry about me. >> the informant, miguel quiroz. he is the pizza parlor owner- turned small-time drug dealer, and the man found with a hit

note in his car targeting garrett warren, now he was cooperating with investigators. detectives already knew quiroz wasn't the shooter. quiroz told him the man who actually pulled the trigger was an old friend of his, named jorge hernandez . heard here. >> i mean with all due respect as long as you don't say nothing i don't say nothing. >> quiroz wore a body wire and approached hernandez at a party . quiroz said he hired hernandez for $10,000 to kill garrett warren. on the tape hernandez makes clear that he didn't waste any of that money on transportation. >> raised my own car. >> hernandez can be heard saying he's sorry he didn't manage to kill garrett warren. >> i apologize, i'm not a good shot. >> hernandez made clear he was ready to try again. >> just get the guns or whatever. we'll finish it off. >> speaking to prosecutor, hoon chun, he explained he even

hired a hit man and explained where the trail lit. mr. quiroz told you he was in on the plan? and that he did it at the behest of his friend, manny? >> his long-time friend, they worked in business, and in the drug business. if the last name haro sounds familiar, it should be, manny's sister is claudia haro, joe pesci >> for his sister claudia who was once married to garrett, but at the time was going through a contentious divorce, this was an 11. this was about custody of the daughter, exactly. and she had a lot of antipathy that was expressed toward

garrett warren. >> she said you were going to bleed. when one spouse says to the other you are going to bleed it's a sign there are bedtimes to come. prosecutors believed they were beginning to understand the outlines of the plot that killed garrett warren. infuriated by a bitter custody battle they believed claudia haro set it in motion but proving that wouldn't be easy. investigators began by looking at how claudia might have persuaded her brother to get involved. detectives arrested jorge hernandez and manny haro and charged them with attempted murder and conspiracy. when they questioned manny they learned about a secret of his that might explain why many would want garrett warren dead. >> i really didn't talk about me getting molested until i was at least 22 probably. >> many told investigators he had been molested as a child,

and remember, many sister, claudia, during her divorce from garrett warren, claimed garrett had molested their daughter. those allegations were thoroughly investigated. a judge said they were unfounded. but, now investigators had to consider another plot twist, because of something else manny said, that not only had he been molested, but that the only other person in the world who knew about that secret was his sister, claudia. >> being that i've been through certain my sister was the only one that i confided in. i told her about my molestation thing that happened to me when i was younger. >> had claudia manipulated many by telling him part of the story? >> did she ever let you know had found that the allegations she was making against garrett were false?

>> she, i never asked, she never told me. i think she knew how to hit a nerve that he was molesting her, so i think it was hitting a nerve, because i never really talked about it. >> manny said his sister's exact language was that she wanted garrett taken out. >> i'm almost positive she didn't use the word murder or kill, but it's like me telling you i want you to take him out, you know what that means in that slang, take him out means kill. >> manny haro , was pointing the finger of guilt straight at his sister, a mother and actress, married to hollywood stardom, who never had a problem with the law, hard to believe except maybe for the intended victim of the murder plot believed claudia was behind it from the get go. >> he felt that way even as the

investigation pointed in every other direction until finally five years after the shooting detectives arrested claudia haro. >> i did think to myself thank god. finally i don't feel crazy anymore. >> but, he was in for another shock. prosecutors didn't feel the case wasn't strong enough, because manny haro had not agreed to testify against claudia haro , and they declined to file charges. >> i was proud to call and tell him i have arrested claudia haro for hiring a hit man to kill you. >> then you have to call him back and say? >> you're not going to believe it but i have to let her go. >> 48 hours after detectives arrested claudia she was back on the street completely free once again. >> i guaranteed him i would not

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stay connected during your move with the best in home wifi. easily transfer your services in the xfinity app. bring on the good stuff. ng] josh mankiewicz: close up: claudia haro. a close-up, claudia haro. she once played a showgirl in a gangster movie , once was married to a legendary movie gangster, now, she was accused of hiring a hit man in real- life. shirts detectives arrested her, but prosecutor hoon chun did not file charges, and claudia was turned loose. chun needed stronger evidence, but claudia's brother, manny, changed that, who took a plea

deal from prosecutors and finally agreed to testify against his sister. >> at some point does somebody approach you about doing something, killing somebody? >> yes, my sister, claudia, approached me, claudia haro approached me. >> that made the difference, and she was arrested, this time charged with murder and conspiracy. claudia denied everything. >> do you know who shot garrett warren?'s back i don't know. >> do you know why he was shot? >> no. >> while there was evidence enough to charge claudia was there enough to convict her? >> you have mr. quiroz's admission, and you have mr. haro and hernandez on tape, but you don't have anything proving claudia claudia haro set this in motion? >> we have the proceedings and the timing of this and what

happens is the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be false of april 12 table is going to thousand. the hit occurs on may 20th of 2000. >> all of that circumstantial? >> i agree. >> soon it was more. the handwriting on the hit note they say matched claudia haro's . when samples were compared to garrett with the hit notes they noticed the misspelling of this word, agoura, as in agoura hills. the word is misspelled the exact same way, claudia insisted she had never given any notes or maps to miguel quiroz. >> did you ever give him anything, paperwork mark so if we had someone's address written in your handwriting?

>> i don't know, not from me. i don't know. >> she claimed to know little about what her brother might have been up to. >> why would your brother who never even met garrett want him killed? >> i don't know. >> why would he tell us that you are the one that asked him if he could be killed? did you ever give your brother a large amount of money? >> i've never had a large amount of money. >> as we said every hollywood story eventually comes back to money. if claudia haro paid somebody 10 grand to ice garrett warren where did she get the cash? detectives took a good look at her other ex-husband but tough guy actor joe pesci. member that party snapshot of garrett and middle man miguel

quiroz along with their kids? that was taken at the hollywood hills home of joe pesci. >> we interviewed joe pesci, and we just wanted to ask if he gave her a large sum of money at the time, he denied he ever gave her a large amount of money, and there was little evidence. >> claudia haro wanted to do an interview, but we weren't able to speak with her in jail, we spoke with her defendant, thomas meserau, best known for defending michael jackson. >> the picture drawn of her is this vengeful woman who would stop at nothing to keep her daughter away from her ex- husband. >> whoever give you that information does not know claudia haro. >> if claudia is guilty of anything it is of having a career criminal for a brother. >> i believe manny haro was angry about being molested as a child, he was desperate to

maintain street credibility as a drug dealer, and when he got caught he tried to blame it on his sister to try and gain freedom for himself. >> not only that he said, but the hit notes allegedly written by claudia? >> i am convinced these are forgeries. claudia never wrote a hit note to anybody, nobody talked to her about murdering or shooting someone. >> thomas meserau was ready with those arguments and more, and who knows what a jury might have done . remember the movie, my cousin vinny, where joe pesci played a lawyer who got his client acquitted of murder charges? well this movie didn't end that way. on the eve of trial claudia haro decided not to fight the charges, she pleaded no contest and received a sentence of 12 years four months. claudia's friend, julie. the deal she was offered, she will be out in eight years and

gets to see her daughter grow up? >> and that's why she took it. >> joe pesci showed up to support his ex-wife. as for the others, mcgill quiroz and many took plea deals. quiroz received three years suspended sentence in return for cooperation. haro was sentenced to life in prison, released in june 2070. thomas meserau was charged and convicted on murder and conspiracy, serving life. in total, claudia-- maxed out on their sentences. is nothing to, you know, what i believe will be eternity afterwards. behind barsow. there is nothing what i believe will be a

trinity. no one is perfect. josh mankiewicz: surprised? you shouldn't be. that trifecta of love, money, and murder isn't new to hollywood. neither are stories about beautiful women who turn out to be as tough as a five-dollar steak and the men who somehow find it in themselves to forgive them. that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. [music playing] ♪♪ good morning. and welcome to this saturday edition of