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and here in l.a. where life and art are often the same thing, there's a real life drama that rivaled any action movie, with a plot that includes all of the elements of classic film law. a mystery, featuring an assassin, a femme fatale and a stuntman who takes the fall. as for the money, we'll get to that. let's start with the biggest name on the marquis, joe pesci, famous for his role as a cold blooded killer. this drama would co-star his ex-wife claudia hair ra, a model

and actress who appeared in the gangster film "casino." it includes claudia's brother, who harbors a terrible secret in his past. and finally, claudia's second husband, garrett warren, a hollywood stuntman and martial arts expert, a man very familiar with danger. early evening in the quiet town of west lake village, california, outside of l.a., stuntman garrett warren heard a knock on his door and a voice on the other side asking about his new silver volvo parked in the driveway. garrett answered and then comes our first plot twist. three shots into his body.

one more into garrett's right eye. the dare devil's luck had run out. >> i called and his mother answered the phone. screaming, crying, just distraught, wally, you're not going to believe what happened. what? garrett has been shot. wally was a fellow stuntman and garrett's good friend. >> garrett was one of those men that you could count on you hear in life that you're very lucky if you have five friends or count a friend or one hand, garrett was that friend to me. >> wally had 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, fen nominal athlete stuntman.

>> you've probably seen garrett's work but didn't know. his stunt work was featured charlie's angels. but he said garrett's personality was not what you would expect. >> he was a focused individual. people think of dare devils as stunt people, crazy people. that's the last person i want on my job. i want the best. >> wally says the focus shifted the minute garrett warren meant claudia har ra. >> beautiful woman. we wanted garrett to be happy. he had found somebody that he sounded like he genuinely loved and wanted to start a life with. >> there was something special about her. people who got to know her, a beautiful soul. men were attracted to that as much as to her beauty. >> claudia's good friend julie remembers when claudia and garrett first got together. >> one day she says, i met this guy.

>> she was very excited. i was a big fan of garrett's, he was sweet and funny and she seemed so happy with him. i should say joe and i both were very supportive. >> by joe, she is referring to claudia's ex-husband, a character actor who became a star by playing mafia tough guy joe pesci. >> it sounds it didn't end badly? >> not at all. they are like family, they are very close. >> claudia stay closed to joe pesci even after she started to date 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 this would be the gal that garrett would end up with, no more dating or 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. >> look at that hairdo. >> the new couple enjoyed being parents. >> i love you guys. >> love you too. >> but happy scenes like this one did not last. claudia and garrett couldn't make it work. >> with a series of events, it wasn't 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 too figure out a way to live and both see their children. >> garrett went back to his old life as a stuntman, back to the set in the world of make believe. so then how did his life go from playing dead to bleeding out at his home shot at close range?

>> someone wanted him hurt or dead at that time. >> but who? detective mark gamen of the l.a. 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 tangled with on the l.a. freeways. >> mr. warren is a stuntman. >> yes. >> i'm guessing he doesn't always drive the speed limit or use his blinker when it's time to change lanes. >> that could be possible. >> or it could be personal. >> could have been an ex-business partner or somebody he was dating that was jealous, maybe an exhusband or exboyfriend. there was an array of possibles on who could have done this. >> possibilities that led from a bloody crime scene to the bright lights of the movie business. all the way to the parts of l.a. that the tours never see.

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>> daytime, wally crowder rushed to the bedside of his buddy, garrett warren, shot with real live bullets. >> i run into garrett's mom and realize i'm going to lose my friend. he's not going to make it. >> garrett was in critical condition. >> all of 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 and once through the eye, all at close range. hard to imagine anyone surviving it. ready for the second twist? it's one neither garrett's family or the gunman saw come. this is garrett warren today. >> thank god i'm still here. i was very fortunate. very lucky, very blessed. to the surprise of doctors treating him, garrett warren

pulled through and lived to tell the story of the night he was almost murdered. a flashback as vivid now as it was then. here's bullet one. >> to be honest with you, when a bullet hits you, you don't know it hits you. as i flip to the side and it hit me center mass, it went right in front of my chest and passed by my heart and stuck in my rib cage right here and still there. >> then bullet two. >> so i look down and look back up and here came another one. i slipped my head to the side and it hit me in the neck and went straight up my back. >> bullet three. >> then i realized it was for real. i went to close the door and he shot center mass. he hit me here in the hip and straight out my back and past my hip. that one hurt. that hitmy bone. >> if that sounds gruesome,

what's next. >> he put the gun to my head and when it was placeded to my head, when i saw him squeeze the trigger i flinched and as i did this it hit me in the eye and came out my ear and got stuck in the wall behind my head. >> those are pretty good reflexes. >> if it was the matrix it wasn't good, it's like keanu going back and the bullet hitting him. as much as i moved, i still got hit. >> somehow the bullet that went through garrett's head missed his brain. >> you know when they tell you your life passes through your eyes, it doesn't pass through your eyes. you run through it and think about everything that happened in your life and wonder, did i do anything wrong, did i not make up for it? am i ready to die? >> at the time of the shooting, garrett's mother was at his home helping with baby kyla. she ran to see what was

happening and the gunman took two shots at her and missed and then out of bullets he fled. >> i said, i love you mom, see you on the other side. my mom said, don't you [ bleep ] die. i was shocked. that hit me harder than the bullets. my mom never swore and she says don't you [ bleep ] die. you've been a fighter all your life, fight one more time. i looked at her and said, you got it, i'm not going to go. i'll stay. >> as garrett ran through his life, he looked back on his failed marriage to claudia haro. >> it was true love. it was the things that poetry was written about, the thing movies were made of. >> hi, daddy, what's up? >> that brief marriage produced their daughter, kyla. even though the marriage didn't last, the bond both parents felt with kyla suredy did.

>> my daughter being born was amazing, most amazing parts of my life and greatest things that i can leave for my legacy, i guess. >> when the marriage broke up, there was a nasty fight over who would get custody of kyla. in the midst of it, claudia made perhaps the worst accusation you could make. she claimed garrett had sexually molested their daughter. after a thorough investigation, a family court judge ruled that there was no evidence of abuse. but it was shortly after that 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 you know, it's like, could it be an ex? >> claudia was cooperative and didn't appear to be any ties to the shooting and had a strong alibi for that evening. she even 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 very difficult to decipher what his ethnicity was because i was looking through a peephole. >> not somebody you knew. >> never knew him before. >> the sheriff's department tried to piece together some theories. i'm guessing detectives asked garrett if he was carrying on with someone else's wife or girlfriend? >> yes, everything was being looked at in his life and lifestyle and his business. >> an exciting high energy lifestyle, from the gym he owned to the film circle he ran in. garrett warren had no shortage of adventures. but investigators received a tip suggesting that garrett also had enemies. >> sheriff's received an anonymous letter advising there was people involved at the gym that garrett was having some kind of relationship with, people that might be of interest to detectives that they might

want to question these people. >> detectives checked out every name that came up and followed up on every lead but hit a dead end at every turn. >> depressing? >> very depressing. sometimes you need that one break. you need a phone call that somebody wants to really give up some information and give us another road to go down and adventure to try. >> it took almost two years before that break arrived. that's when police in another county, searching a car for drugs, instead found a note and photo that would make clear just what kind of danger garrett warren was facing. coming up -- was garrett warren's would be killer about to try for take two. >> i'm scared he's going to come back and finish me. >> when "the plot thickens" continues. n "the plot thickens" continues. great news! the no added hormones in land o' frost premium sliced meats have moms buying in. in bulk. boom!

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stuntman garrett warren was shot four times and left for dead. >> i have a bullet proof vest on. i've invested in whatever money i possibly can into all sorts of security around my house, i'm scared to death someone is going to come back and finish it.

>> did you think there would ever be an arrest? >> no, i gave up on it and chock it up to experience and move on with your life and that's it. >> and you did move on with your life? >> i did. >> a year after his shooting, garrett still faced multiple surgeries and painful rehab. he was back at work as a personal trainer at the gym he owned. and that's where he met lisa. >> she was also a client of mine that i was a personal trainer to. so while we were first training, she said, i really like you, like to date you. by rule i don't date clients. so lisa quit the gym. >> she came back saying, i'm not in your gym anymore, let's date. >> they married in december of 2002. two years after the shooting, maybe the happiness brought along by garrett's second wife made it easier to get along with his first, claudia. the anger that had marked their divorce had faded. >> we're back to our visit tags schedule again and shared custody and on speaking terms and actually friendly.

>> it was about 18 months after garrett was shot when detectives got that lucky break. in an unrelated case, san bernard dean know police served a search want on a car to a man named miguel kiros. they found something else, a photograph 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 my get. >> by all means that's the guy i recognize. >> that's the guy that shot snu. >> yep. >> no doubt in your mind? >> no doubt in my mind. >> in 2003 they arrestedmy get keer rose for attempted murder, neither a gang banger or hired gun.

instead he owned a pizza parlor. sheriff's detective mark gamen. >> it seemed he was your middle class nice guy that everybody in the community loved. >> and yet garrett was identifying him as the shooter? >> yes. >> other than garrett's i.d., there was nothing to suggest they had ever met. >> they never done any business deal before? >> no. >> keer rose connected in any way to the gym? >> no. >> any chance he was driving a car near garrett that night? >> no, none whatsoever. >> what their connection was or why he would kill him, not clear? >> there was no direct connection whatsoever. >> and as detectives soon learned, proving an attempted murder charge against miguel kiros wouldn't be easy. multiple witnesses said they saw and spoke to him at the pizza parlor on the night of the shooting.

>> these witnesses weren't really beholden to mr. kioros in any way. >> yes, they were frequent customers of that establishment, plus he had receipts. it was a pretty good alibis. >> so at kioro's preliminary hearing, evidence pointed both ways. witnesses put him 80 miles away from the scene of the crime on the night it happened. but then why did kiros had garrett's picture hidden in the car. how and why would garrett finger kiros as the shooter. the deputy was brought in from the major crimes unit and he knew he had more work to do. >> you got a guy stopped for drug charges. >> right. >> a map sitting in his car of somebody who was nearly a murder victim. >> sure. >> and a photograph of that guy. >> right. >> and guy picks him out. >> you think what's the question, right?

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>> los angeles county, california, garrett warren was gunned down, shot four times in his own home but somehow survived. a hollywood stuntman, marshall artist and fighter. not only did he survive but able to identify his shooter, a man

who had been caught with what looked like a hit note in his car. >> and they said his name is miguel quiroz. that name mean anything to you? >> not at the time at all. >> it sounded at first like a strong case but the more law enforcement and prosecutor chun ininvestigated, the weaker it seemed to become. >> mostly what you've done is help prove your defendant's alibi? >> sure, so far and eventually it really proved the alibi he didn't do this. >> remember, multitim witnesses put him 80 miles away from garrett's home on night of the shooting of the then like a scene from column bow came this case, something the prosecutors saw during a court hearing. >> i'm noticing something, miguel quiroz is left handed and the shooter was described as right handed.

and that's say little odd. >> odd because what left handed person would try to commit murder with the gun in his right hand. >> like out of a movie. >> out of a movie, right. a script writer may do this but it didn't make sense. >> prosecutor chun saw this photo taken at the party, a barbecue. >> in this photo, you have garrett warren and he is facing miguel quiroz and kneeling down. 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 those children as well as the lakers championship t-shirt, 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 i.d of quiroz. >> you think this is where he knew miguel from?

>> right. >> that's why he identified him as the shooter because he remembered him from this party? >> classic transference, right. >> to the prosecutor and to garrett, the photo explained the i.d. >> for some reason when i saw him in the photo lineup, it clicked, that must be him, i recognize him and obviously it wasn't him. >> and garrett was wrong in picking quiroz as the man who shot him and that left prosecutors with two questions. who did shoot garrett and since he had garrett's photo and address in his trunk, could quiroz still somehow be involved? prosecutor chun began to rethink the case. >> the defense attorneys agreed that we could talk to mr. quiroz and they let us talk to them and the detectives and i keep coming back to the hit note, to where it's found. he doesn't know garrett warren. their interaction was brief at that barbecue.

>> detectives kept after quiroz, they knew who ordered the hit wanted garrett dead because here's one more twist, the postmark on the note is in after the shooting, meaning it's not so much a hit note as a note explaining to someone how to go back and finish the job. >> it's a rehit if you want to call it that. >> that finish the job note started to unravel the mystery. that was really kind of what broke the case open. that was quite frankly the lifeline we had on this case. >> the one unavoidable piece of evidence that finally cracked miguel quiroz. >> finally he admits he was one of the middle men. >> miguel quiroz admits while he wasn't the shooter, he was in on the plot and he was caught by his own carelessness. >> he explained the hit note had been sent directly to him, that he had put it under the spare

tire in the trunk of his car and literally he said, he had forgotten about it. >> the reason you end up finding that hit note under the spare tire in the trunk of mr. quiroz's car was that he put it there for safekeeping and then forgotten it? >> this was one of those stranger than fiction type things. nobody would write a script like this, they would have a look that any self-respecting director or producer would have, the look you're having in a hollywood movie and think that's reridiculous but people forget things. >> disorganized crime. >> miguel quoir oz had never sworn a blood oath to rat on his friends. to the opposite. he rolled over like lascy and cut a deal and agreed to wear a wire and collect evidence on his co-sprters and as they say around here "the plot thickens." coming up --

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>> fade in. los angeles county, night time. a police informant wears a wire as he talks to a partner in crime. >> you don't got to worry about me. >> yeah. >> the informant, miguel quiroz is the pizza parlor owner turned small time drug dealer and the man found with his hit note in his car targeting garrett warren. now he was cooperating with investigators. the detectives already knew quiroz wasn't the shooter. he said the man who pulled the trigger was a friend named jorge hernandez heard here. as part of the deal with prosecutors quiroz wore a body wire and approached hernandez at the party. he said he hired hernandez to kill garrett warren. on the tape, hernandez makes clear that he didn't waste any of that money on transportation. >> i used my own car. >> hernandez can be heard saying that he is sorry he didn't

manage to kill garrett warren. >> i apologize, i'm not a good shot. >> and hernandez made clear he was ready to try again. >> get the guns or whatever and i'll finish it off if that's what you need. >> speaking to the prosecutor, he explained his involvement that he was paid to hire hernandez as a hit man and explained where the trail led. >> mr. quiroz told you he didn't do it but he was in on the plan? >> right. >> and he did it at the behest of his friend manny haro? >> yes. >> they worked together in the pizza business and in the drug business. and if the last name haro sounds familiar, it should. manny's sister, claudia is garrett warren's ex-wife. prosecutor chun says that explains mr. haro's involvement.

>> he was doing this for his sister, claudia. >> who was married to gar garrett and going through a content shouse divorce, about custody of the daughter. and she had a lot of anti-pathy expressed toward warren. >> generally when one spouse says to the other, you're going to bleed, it's a sign there are bad times to come. >> you're right. >> prosecutors believed they were beginning to understand the outlines of the plot to kill garrett warren. infuriated by a bitter custody battle they believed claudia haro set it in motion but proving that wouldn't be ease yes. they looked at how claudy may have persuaded her brother to get involved in a murder. 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 manny would want garrett warren dead. >> really talk about being molested in i was 22 probably. >> he told investigators he had been molested as a child. and remember, manny's sister, claudia, during her divorce from garrett warren, claimed that 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 things in my childhood as far as like molestation, and my sister was the only one i confided in and told her about my things that happened to me when i was younger.

>> had claudia manipulated manny by telling him only part of the story. >> did she ever let you know that the judge, someone independent in her child custody case had found that the allegations that she was making against garrett were false? did she ever tell you that. >> i never asked and she never told me. i think she knew how to hit the nerve that he was molesting her. so i think she knew it was hitting a nerve that way because i never talked about it. >> manny said his sister's exact language was that she wanted garrett taken out. >> i don't -- i'm almost positive the word murder, if anybody says take him out, you know what the slang means, take him out means kill. >> manny haro, a small time criminal, was pointing the finger of guilt straight as az sister, a actress married to stardom and never had a problem

with the law. it was hard to believe except for the intended murder of the murder plot who believed claudia was behind it from the get-go. >> there's only one person that wanted this done to me. >> he felt that way even as the investigation pointed in every other direction until finally, five years after the shooting, the detectives arrested claudia haro. >> i did think to myself, you know, thank god, finally i don't feel crazy anymore. >> he was in for another shock. prosecutors did not feel the case was strong enough because manny haro had no agreed to testify against claudia. and the daxt's office declined to file charges. >> i'm thinking you probably hated that? >> yes, but that's not the worst of it i was proud to call and said i arrested claudia haro for

hiring a hit man to kill you. then you have to call him back -- >> you're not going to believe it. i have too let her go. >> 48 hours after detectives arrested claudia, she was back on the street completely free once again. >> i guaranteed him that i would not stop. >> what would it take to write a new ending to this story? with a new role for the beauty that investigators believed was their femme fatale or would claudia haro escape prosecution by denying she had been involved. >> bottom line principle is that, lying isn't about mouthing the words, the words have to make sense. when they don't make sense, you're going to have a problem. >> lying is tougher than people think it is. >> it's a lot tougher. >> claudia haro tells her story when "the plot thickens" continues.

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my sister claudia approached me. >> that made the difference, detectives rearrested claudia haro, this time the prosecutor charged her with two counts of attempted murder and one of conspiracy to committee murder.f claudia denied everything. >> do you know who shot garrett warren? >> i do not know. >> do you know why he was shot? >> no, i don't know. s >> while there was evidence >> enough to charge claudia, was there enough to convict her?

>> you've got mr. quiroz's admission and mr. howl and hernandez on tape but you don't have anything claiming claudia set this in motion. ny >> we have the motive, the divorce proceedings and the timing of this. the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be false on april 12th, i believe of 2000. the hit occurs about a month and week after that on may 20th of 2000. >> all of that is circumstantial. >> i agree. >> but soon there was more. prosecutors said the handwriting on the hit note matched claudia haro's.ec h and when prosecutors compared samples of claudia's letters to garrett with the hit notes, they noticed the misspelling of this word, agora, the location of garrett warren's home.at on the hit note found in his car and in claudia's letters, the word is misspelled the exact same way.

augora. claudia insisted she had never given any notes or maps to miguel quiroz. >> did you give him anything on paperwork? >> not that i can think of, no. >> if we have some of the 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 haro may have been up to. >> why would your brother who never met garrett want to kill him? >> i don't know. it's not -- >> why would he tell us you're the one that asked him to be killed and around it? >> i don't know. >> did you ever give your brother a large amount of money? >> no. >> any amount whatsoever? >> i don't think i ever had a large amount of money. >> as we said, every hollywood story eventually comes back to money.

if claudia haro paid somebody ten grand to ice garrett warrena where did she get the cash? i detectives took a good look at her other ex-husband, tough guy actor joe pesci. remember the party snapshot? that was taken at the hollywood hills home of joe pesci. ty >> we interviewed joe pesci and asked if he gave her a large sum of money at that time. he denied it and there was no evidence to indicate he had any involvement. >> claudia haro said she wanted to do an interview with us but we were not able to speak with her in jail. we spoke with her defense attorney tom mess roe, best fe known for defending michael jackson. >> the picture drawn of her is sort of this vengeful woman who would stop at nothing to keep her daughter away from her p ex-husband.

>> whoever gave that information doesn't know claudia haro. >> he says if she's guilty of anything, it's guilty of having a career criminal for a brother. >> i believe manny haro was angry about being abused and molested as a child and desperate to maintain his street credibility as a drug dealer and then when he got caught tried to blame it on his sister to gain freedom for himself. o >> not only that but the hit notes written by claudia. >> i'm convinced these are forgeries, she never wrote a hit note to anybody, nobody talked to her about whacking someone or shootding someone. >> he was ready with those arguments and more and who knows what a jury magt have done. remember "my cousin vinny qu, when he got his client acquitted of murder charges. this movie didn't end that way. on the eve of trial, claudia

haro decided not to fight the charges and pleaded no contest to two counts of attempted murder. she received a sentence of 12 years and 4 months. she's unlikely to serve all of it. claudia's friend julie -- >> the deal she was offered, she'll be out in eight years and gets to see her daughter grow up. sh >> that's why she took it. >> at her sentencing, joe pesci showed up to support his ex-wife. as for the others, miguel choir owes and manny haro took plea deals. haro was sentenced to life in le prison but will be eligible for parole. the hired gunman hernandez was tried and convicted on charges of attempted murder and conspiracy. he's serving a sentence of 77 years to life. it's not uncommon in film to have the femme fatale get away with the crime.

if claudia haro master minded this murder, she ended up getting a very good deal. >> claudia's brother, manny, who set it up and the actual shooter, both pretty much got maxed out on their sentences.ho claudia, supposedly the ring leader, is going to be out in a few years. you okay with that? >> yes. you know, the amount of time you spend behind bars is nothing to what i believe will be eternity afterwards. and i believe we all pay one day no matter what. >> you seem remarkably free of anger. oi wouspenely one >> and everyone should be in this world. she made a mistake. i've made mistakes. no one is different. >> surprised? you shouldn't be. that tri fekt at a of love and money and murder isn't new to hollywood. neither are stories about beautiful women who turn out to be as tough as a $5 steak and the men who somehow find it in themselves to forgive them.

>> that's all for this edition thank you for watching. thank you for watching this morning the u.s. and china appear deadlocked on trade negotiations. this as president trump's top economic adviser acknowledges that it's american consumers who end up paying for the administration's tariffs, not china. plus, the president lashes out at former white house counsel don mcgahn following reports that the white house asked mcgahn to publicly state that trump didn't obstruct justice and mcgahn refused. actress felicity huffman heads to court today where she's expected to plead guilty to paying a large sum of money to help her daughter get into college.