postthumbasly to jerry the poet. >> she is not a dream, she is real as can be. i knew it the moment her wings covered me. she flew from affair, and awakened new sight, only i see her my angel of light. you know when they tell you, life passes by, am i ready to die? he was a hollywood stunt man. this was no hollywood stunt. >> this is a hit. >> shot four times, and left dying on the floor. >> somebody wanted him dead. >> who? and why? you will meet lots of possible suspects. >> my gosh. >> including his exwife, an actress, once married to joe

pesci. she had a strong alibi. >> do you know who shot him? >> i don't. >> that is only the start of the twists in this hollywood mystery. >> stranger than fiction, nobody would write a script like this. >> the most stunning twist is what didn't happen. >> my mom said don't you [ bleep ] die. that hit me harder than the bullets, my mom never swore. >> holoand welcome to "dateline." derrick ward was a hollywood stunt man, who made a living pulling off death defying acts. one night, he opened the door for a stranger, and found himself in the miftsds a terrifying scene that was too real. he was looking down the barrel of a gun. moments later, four shots rang out. and soon, investigators would be

embroiled in a whodunit with more suspects -- >> ready, action. >> action! >> it ranked second only to money. as the single most important word in hollywood. here in l.a., where life and art are often the same thing -- there is a real life drama that rivals any action movie with a plot that includes all the elements of classic film noir. a mystery, featuring an assassin, a fem fatashlgs a hollywood star, and a stunt man who takes the fall. as for the money, we will get to that start with the biggest name

on the marquis. joe pesci, famous for roles of a cold blooded killer. featuring his ex-wife, model and actress that appeared in the gangster film "sakino." the supporting cast, her brother, a tough guy who did time in prison, and harbors a terrible secret. and claudia's second husband, derrick warren, familiar with danger. fade in, early evening, in the quiet town of westlake village, california, outside of l.a. stunt man, garrett warren heard a knock on the door, a question

about a silver volvo parked in the driveway. garrett answered, and then comes the plot twist. three shots into his body. one more into garrett's right eye. the dare devil's luck run out. >> i called and his mother answered the phone. screaming, crying, just destraut. wallyings you are not going to believe what happened. garrett has been shot. wally crowdir was a fellow stunt man and garrett's good friend. >> garrett was one of those men you could count on, you hear in life, you have five mends or 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 hired him on several shows.

his stunt garrett he was a focused individual. people think of stunt man as dear devils, that is the last person i want on my job. i want the very best at what i do. toward the end of 1997. the minute garrett warren met claudia. >> a beautiful woman. we wanted garrett to be happy. he found somebody that seemed he genuinely loved. >> there was something special about her. people who got to know her, she has a beautiful soul, men were attracted to that as much as her

beauty. >> her friend remembers when claudia and garrett first got together. one day, she said to you, i met this guy. she was very excited. i was a big fan of garrett. he was sweet, funny, she seemed happy. joe and i both were supportive. >> by joe, she is referring to claudia'sex husband, joe pesci. >> it sounds like her marriage to joe didn't end badly? >> not at all. they are like family, very close. >> claudia stayed close to joe pesci, after she started dating garrett. he loved action and adventure, he met claude ya, he was ready to settle down. >> we thought this would be the gal that garrett would end up with. no more dating, no more running around, i will end up with

claudia. they were married less than a year after they met. >> in the beginning, i think it was a good relationship. my gosh. >> they soon had a beautiful daughter, kyla, the new couple enjoyed being parents. >> i love you guys. >> happy scenes like this one did not last. claudia and garrett couldn't make it work. >> it was a series of events, it wasn't the right marriage. >> once the relationship started going south, it went fast. less than two years after their wedding, claudia and garrett split up for good. >> divorce is never easy, in the long run, it was two parents, trying to figure out a way to live and both see their children. >> garrett went back 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 that time. but who? detective mark damonat the l.a. police department, remembering how the gunman at first asked garrett about his brand new volvo, they wondered if this could be road rage. someone that garrett tangled with on the l.a. freeway. >> mr. warren is a stunt man? >> yes. >> i am guessing he doesn't always drive the speed limit or use the blinker. >> it could have been annex-business partner, maybe an ex-husband, ex-boyfriend. there was an array of possibles on who could have done this. >> possibilities that lead from a bloody crime scene to the

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>> rushing tote bed side of his buddy, a stunt man shot with live bullets, i run into garrett's mom, and realize that i am going to lose my friend. he is 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 maybe you should have said that you didn't. it was rough. >> shot three times in the body, once through the eye, all at close range. hard to imagine anyone surviving it. ready for the second twist? it is one that neither garrett's family northe gunman saw coming. this was garrett warren today.

>> thank god i am still here, i was fortunate. >> to the surprise of the doctors treating him, garrett warren pulled through. he lived to tell the story of the night that he was almost murdered. >> a flash back as vivid now as it was then. >> he is bullet one. to be honest, when a bullet hits you, you don't know that it hits you, it is not like you see in the movies. it hit me center mass, past by my heart, and stuck in my rib cage, it is still there. then, bullet two? >> so, i looked down, i looked back up. here came another one. the bullet hit plooe in the neck and came out my back. i went to close the door, he shot center mass at me place, the xfinity xfi gateway.

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they were looking for drugs but they found something else under the spare tire in kuros trunk. it was a photograph of garrett warren with a circle drawn on it and garrett's home address which very few people knew so detectives showed garlt a srett six-pack, a photo lineup. >> i'm looking at the pictures and i say by all means, that's the guy i recognize. >> that's the guy that shot you? >> yeah. >> no doubt in your mind? >> no doubt in my mind. >> in 2003 detectives arrested

him for attempted murder. he was neither a gang banger nor a hired gun. instead, he opened a pizza parlor. sheriff's department, mark damon. >> it seemed like he was your middle class, very nice guy that everybody in the community loved. >> and yet garrett was identifying him as the shooter? >> yes. >> other than garrett's i.d. of kyrgios, there was nothing to suggest they had ever met. >> they had never donnie business deal before? >> no. >> cakyrgios? >> what was their connection, why mr. kyrgios would kill him, not clear? >> there was no direct connection whatsoever. >> and as detectives soon learned, proving an attempted murder charge against miguel

kyrgios wouldn't be easy. multiple witnesses said they saw and spoke to him at his >> it was pretty good alibis. >> so, at his preliminary hearing, evidence pointed both ways, witnesses put him 80 miles away from the scene of the crime. why did kyrios have garrett's picture in his car. how and why would garrett finger him as the shooter? the deputy district attorney knew he had more work to do. >> you have a guy stopped for drug charges, he has a map hidden in his car of someone

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base, 19 were killed in the suicide bombing. now back to dateline. >> welcome fwook "dateline" i am craig melvin. police arrested miguel kyros's car, when they found garrett's photo and address in the trunk. garrett id'd him as a shooter. the case was adding up. a closer look at the evidence lead to a stunning discovery. warren wasn't out of danger yet. here is more with the plot thickens. >> los angeles county, california. garrett warren, gunned down, shot four times in his own home

and survived. martial artist, and former fighter, not only did he survive, he was able to identify the shooter, a man caught with what looked like a hit note in his car. miguel kyios. >> didn't name mean anything to you at all? >> not at the time. >> the more they investigated, mostly what you have done is prove your defendant's alibi. >> so far. eventually, really, prove the alibi that he didn't do this. >> remember, multiple witnesses pull miguel 80 miles away from garrett's home on the night of the shooting. then, like a scene from colombow came this latest twist. something that prosecutors saw during a court hearing. >> i am noticing some things,

miguel kygos was left-handed, the shooter was described as right-handed. that isuda. >> odd, because, what left-handed person would try to commit murder with the gun in his right hand. in real life. >> and they saw this photo taken at a party, a barbecue. nnchlths this photo, you have garrett warren, facing miguel kyis. their children are in front of them. we can tell from the scar on his face it is postshooting, tell from the ages of the children, and the laker championship tv, this is shortly after the shooting. >> the two men were both guests at the same party. after the shooting, before

garrett made his eyewitness id of kygos. >> you think this is where he knew him from? >> yes. >> you think that is why he identified him because he remembered him from the party? >> classic transferrence. >> to the prosecutor, and garrett, the photo explained the id. >> when i saw him in the photo lineup, it clicked, it must be him. i recognized him. obviously, it wasn't him. >> so, garrett was wrong picking the man that shot him. that left the prosecutors with two questions, who shot him, since he had garrett's photo and address in his trunk, could he be involved? >> the defense attorneys agreed that we could talk to mr. k

kygios. >> he doesn't know garrett warren. their interaction was brief at the barbecue. >> they knew, whoever ordered the hit wanted garrett warren dead. here is one more twist, the postmark on the note is from after the shooting. meaning that it is not so much a hit note as a note explaining to someone how to go back and finish the job. >> it is a re-hit if you want to call it that. >> that finished the job note started to unravel the mystery. that is what broke the case open. that was the life line we had on the case. >> the one unavoidable piece of evidence that cracked miguel kygios. >> he admits he was one of the middle men. while he wasn't the shooter, he was in on the plot, and that he was caught by his own

carelessness. he explained that hit note was sent directly to him. that he had put it under the spare tire in the trunk of his car, and literally forgotten about it. >> the reason you ended up finding that hit note under the spare tire in the trunk of his car was that he put it there for safe keeping and forgot it? >> this is one of the stranger than fiction kind of things, certainly, nobody would write a script like this. any self respecting director would have the look you are having, saying that is ridiculous. people forget things. >> disorganized crime. >> yes. >> luckily for prosecutors, mig gel 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 wear a wire and help to collect evidence on his co-conspirators, so, as they

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fade in. los angeles county, night time. a police inform ant wears a wire as he talks to a partner in crime. >> i don't have to worry about you, you don't have to worry about me. >> the inform ant, mig sgel kygos, he is the pizza parlor owner, turned drug dealer, found with a hit note. now he was cooperating. they knew he wasn't the shooter. the man who pulled the trigger was george hernandez heard here. >> you don't say anything, i don't say nothing. >> as part of his deal with prosecutors, he wore a body wire and approached hernandez. he said he hired him for $10,000

to kill warren. he didn't waste any of that money on transportation. >> i used my own car. >> hernandez can be heard saying he is sorry he didn't manage to kill garrett warren. >> apologize, i am not a good shot. >> hernandez made clear, he was ready to try again. >> get the guns, whatever, we will finish it off if that is what you need. >> speaking to prosecutors, k yimpt gos explained his investment, he was paid to hire hernandez as a hitman, and explained where the trail lead. >> he told you he didn't do it, he was in on the planning. >> yes, and did it at the behest of his friend, manny hero. >> they worked together in the pizza business, and in the drug business. and if the last name sounds familiar, it should, manny's

center, claudia is garrett warren's ex-wife. >> he was doing this for his sister, claudia, once married to garrett, going through a contentious divorce. >> this is about custody of their daughter. she had a lot of -- >> she said you were going to bleed. >> when one spouse says to the other, are you going to bleed there, are signs there are bad times to come. prosecutors believed they were beginning to understand the outlines of the plot to kill garrett warren. infuriated by a bitter custody battle, that believe that claudia set it in motion. proving that wouldn't be easy. how claudia may have persuaded

her brother to get involved in a murder. detectives arrested hernandez and harrow and charged them with attempted murder and conspiracior. they learned about a secret of hits, why manny would want garrett warren d. >> they didn't talk about until i was molested until i was 22 he told investigation he was molested as a child. claudia, during her divorce claimed that garrett molested their daughter. those allegations were thoroughly investigated. a judge said they were unfounded. now, investigators had to consider another plot twist. because of something else manny said, not only had he been molested, the only other person in the world who knew about that secret was his center, claudia. >> being that i have been

through certain things in my childhood like molestation, my sister was the only one i confided n i told her about it when i was younger. >> had claudia manipulated manny, telling him part of the story. >> did she let you know, a j someone independent her child custody case found that allegations she was making against garrett were false, did she tell you that? >> i never asked. i think she knew how to hit the nerve that he was molesting her. that way, hitting a nerve, i never really talked about it. >> manny said his sister's exact language is that she wanted garrett taken out. >> i am positive she didn't use the word murder or kill. it was like me, take him out.

you know what slang mean, take him out, meaning kill. >> a small time criminal, pointing the finger of guilt at his center, an actress and mother who had been married to hollywood stardom, never had a problem with the law. it was hard to believe, except for the intended murder victim who believed that claudia was behind it. >> there was one person that wanted this done to me. >> he felt that way, as the investigation pointed in every other direction, until five years after the shooting, detectives arrested claudia harrow. >> i thought to myself, thank god. you know. i don't feel crazy anymore. >> he was in for another shock. prosecutors did not feel the case was strong enough, because manny harrow had not agreed to testify against claudia, and the das office declined to file

charges. >> that is not the worst of it i was proud to call him and tell him, guess, what i arrested claudia harrow for hiring a hitman to kill you. you are not going to believe it, i have to let her go. >> 48 hours after detectives arrested claude ya, she was back on the street completely free again. >> i guaranteed you, i would not stop. >> what would it take to write a new ending to the story? for the new role that beauty investigators thought was their fem fatal or would claudia deny prosecution denying she had been involved. >> lying is not just about saying the words, the words have to make sense. when they don't make sense, you will have a problem. >> lying is tougher than people think it is. >> it is a lot tougher than people think it is. >> claude yeah harrow tells her

story. >> it is your day in the lime light. >> do you know who shot warren? >> no. >> do you know why he was shot? >> no, i don't know.

close up, claudia harrow, once played a show girl in a

gangster movie. once was married to a lend edgeary movie gangster, now, accused of hiring a hitman. >> i didn't think there was a viable case at that point. claudia's brother manny changed that he took a plea deal from prosecutors and agreed to testify against his sister. >> at some point, did someone approach you about doing something, killing somebody? >> yes, my sister claudia, approached me. >> that made the difference. detectives re-arrested claudia harrow, this time, charged with two accounts of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

claudia denies everything. >> do you know who shot garrett warren? >> no, i don't know. >> there was evidence to charge claude yea, was there enough to convict her? >> you got kygios's admission, and mr. hernandez on tape. you don't have anything proving she set this in motion. >> the motive, the divorce proceedings, the timing, the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be false, april 12th of 2000. the hit occurs about a month and a week after that may 20th of 2000. >> all of that is circumstantial. >> i agree. >> prosecutors said that handwriting on the hit note matched claudia harrows, and when prosecutors compared the samples of letters, agoa hills,

the location of garrett warren's home, on the hit note, the word is misspelled the exact same way. augora. claudia insisted she had never given notes or maps to miguel kygios? >> no, not they can think of. >> if i had someone's address written in your handwriting? >> i don't know. not from me. i don't know. >> she claimed to know very little about what her brother manny may have been up to. >> why would your brother, who never met garrett, want to kill him? >> i don't know. >> why would he tell us that you are the one that asked him to kill and help arrange it?

>> i don't know. >> did you ever give your brother a large amount of money? >> no. >> as we said, every hollywood story eventually comes back to money. if claudia harrow paid someone $10,000 to ice garrett warren, where did she get the cash? detectives took a good look at her other ex-husband. joe pempt sci. remember that photo, that was taken at the hollywood hills home of joe pesci. >> we interviewed joe pesci, we wanted to ask if he gave her a sum of money, he denied it. there was no evidence to indicate that he can any involvement. >> claudia said she wanted to do an interview, we were not able to speak with her in jail. we spoke with her defense

attorney, tom meas row, best known for defending michael jackson. >> the picture drawn of her is a vengeful woman who would do anything to keep her dausht from her ex-husband. >> i believe manny harrow was angry about being abused and molested as a child. desperate to maintain his street credibility, when he got caught, tried to blame it on his sister to gain freedom for himself. >> the hit notes -- >> claudia never wrote a hit note, nobody ever talked to her about murdering someone hoar shooting someone. he was ready for those arguments and more. who knows what a jury might have

done. >> remember the movie "my cousin vinny" who got his client acquitted of murder charges. this movie didn't end that way. on the eve of trial, claudia harhoe decided not to fight the charges, pleading no contest to two counts of attempted murder. she received a sentence of 12 years and four months, she is unlikely to serve all of it. >> the deal was offered, she will be out in eight years, gets to see her daughter grow up. >> at her sentencing, joe pesci showed up to support his ex-wife. >> kygios. manny was released in 2017. the hired gunman was tried and

convicteded, serveg 77 years to life sentence. it is not uncommon in film to have the fem fatal get away with the crime. if claudia harrow did mastermind this attempted murder, she ended up getting a very good deal. >> claudia's brother, manny, who set it up and the shooter, got maxed out on their sentences. >> the amount of time you spend behind bars is nothing to what i believe it will eternity afterwards, we all pay, one day, no matter what. >> you seem remarkably free of anger? >> i am. she made a mistake. nobody is perfect. >> surprised? >> you shouldn't be. that trifecta of love, money and murder isn't new to hollywood. neither are story bs 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. i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." my mind is saying move your hands, kick. i don't want this, why is this person doing this? >> did you tell anybody else about what happened? >> it was bill cosby. it was dr. huxtable. i thought i was the only person that he did this to. who's gonna believe me? >> she spoke up and stood up.