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suspects. including his ex-wife, an extres who once married joe pesh is ship. but she had a strong alibi. and that's only the start of the twist in this hollywood mystery. >> this is one of the stranger than fiction kindover things. certainly, nobody would write a script like that. >> the most stunning twist of all was what didn't happen. >> my mom said don't you [ bleep ] die. that hit me hard. my mom never swore. >> the plot thickens. if. >> hello and welcome to "dateline extra." he was a stunt devil for big movie stars used to handling danger onset, but not at home where he.netted on his daughter. one night he answered the door and faced a halo of bullets he was known for his focus on the

details what detail would help investigators catch the gunman. here's josh manning wits. >> action. it ranks second only to money as the single most important word in hollywood. and here in l.a. where life and art are often the same thing there's a real life drama that rivals any mute vae with a plot that includes all the elements of classic film. a mystery facing an assassin, a hollywood star and a stuntman who takes the fall. as for the money, we'll get to

that. let's start with the bikest name, joe peshy. this would co-star his ex-wife. a model and actress who appeared along with joe in "casino." the supporting cast includes claudia's brother, not an actor but an actual tough guy who did time in prison. and who harbors a terrible secret in his past and hclaudias second husband, a hollywood stuntman and marshall arts expert, a man very familiar with danger. fade in, early evening in the quiet town of west lake village, california uts, outside of l.a.

garrett answered and then comes our first plot twist. three shots into his body. one more into his right eye. the daredevil's luck had run out. >> i called and his mother answered the phone. screaming, crying, just distraught. garrett's 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. >> getting ready to say good-bye to a friend. >> i'm going to lose my friend. he's not going to make it. >> get ready to be amazed as the plot thickens.

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might have run out when a gunman showed up at garrett's house, pumped four bullets into him and left him for dead. as investigators began their work, his loved ones were preparing to say good-bye. then they got a surprise that seemed straight out of a showbiz script. >> fade in, north ridge hospital, daytime. a stuntman shot with reel 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 two, 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

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raise your steins to the king of speed. he was gunned down in his own home but lived to tell the tale. his killer was on the loose and garrett was looking over his shoulder. >> i have invested whatever money i can into all sorts of security around my house. i'm scared sto death someone is going to come back and finish it. >> did you think there was going to be an arrest? >> no, i gave up and thought, you know what, chalk it up to experience and move on with your life and that's it.

>> a year after his shooting, he faced multiple surgeries and painful roadway re has been. 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? >> aren't there people on death row for more than that? >> sometimes there's more to the story than meets the eye, which

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it fit his character really. a martial artist and former fighter. not only did he survive, but able to identify his shooter, a man caught with what looked like a hit note in his car. >> they tell you his name is miguel. that name mean anything to you? >> not at the time. >> 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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>> 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 da'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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welcome back. manny haro told investigators his sister claudia manipulating him into planning the attempted hit on her ex-husband garrett warren then he refused to testify against her. but this hollywood tale had more twists in store, and remember that hit note hidden in the car trunk? it was about to take one more turn in the spotlight. here with the conclusion of "the plot thickens" is jo." >> now she was accused of hiring a hit-man in real life. sheriff's detectives arrested her, but prosecutor chun did not file charges, and claudia was

turned loose. chun felt he needed stronger evidence. >> i did not think there was a fileable case at that point. >> but claudia's brother manny changed that. he 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. >> okay. >> my sister claudia approached me. claudia haro 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 commit murder. claudia denied everything. >> do you know who shot garrett warren? >> i don't know. >> do you know why he was shot? >> no, i don't know. >> but while there was evidence enough to charge claudia, was there enough to convict her? >> you got mr. quiroz's

admission. >> right. >> and you got mr. haro and mr. hernlds on tape. >> right. >> but you don't have anything proving that claudia set this in motion. >> we have the contentious divorce proceedings. we have the timing of this. what happens is the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be false on april 12th, i believe, of 2000. the hit occurs about a month and a week after that, may 20th of 2000. >> all of that is circumstantial. >> i agree. i agree. >> but there was more. prosecutors said the handwriting on the hit note matched claudia haro's. and when prosecutors compared notes, they noticed the misspelling of this word, agora, is in agoura hills, the location of garrett's home. and in claudia's letters the word is misspelled the exact same way.

a-u-g-o-r-a. claudia inside she had never given any notes or maps to miguel quiroz. >> did you ever give him any paperwork? >> not that i can think of, no. >> so if we had, say, someone's address written in your ha handwriting. >> i don't know. >> she claimed to know very little about what her brother manny haro had been up to. >> why would your brother, who never even met garrett, want him killed? >> i don't know. that's not -- >> why would he tell us that you're the one that asked him to be killed and helped arrange 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 10 grand to ice garrett warren,

where did she get the cash? detectives took a good look at her other ex-husband. tough guy actor joe pesci. remember that party snapshot of garrett and middleman miguel quiroz along with their kids? that was taken at the hollywood hills home of joe pesci. >> we actually interviewed joe pesci and we just wanted to ask if he gave her a large sum of money at that time. he denied he ever gave her a large amount of money. 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 to her in jail. we spoke with her defense attorney tom mesereau, best known for successfully defending michael jackson. >> the picture drawn of her is this sort of vengeful woman that would stop at nothing to keep her daughter away from her ex-husband. >> whoever gave you that information doesn't know claudio haro. >> mesereau says if claudia's

guilty of anything, it's having a career criminal for a brother. >> i believe manny haro was angry about being abused and molested as a child. he was desperate to maintain his street credibility as a drug dealer. when he got caught, he tried to blame it on his sister to try to gain freedom for himself. >> not only that, he said, but those hit notes allegedly written by claudia -- >> i am convinced these are forgeries. claudia never wrote any hit note to anybody. nobody ever talked to her about whacking someone or murdering someone or shooting someone. >> mesereau 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 to two counts of attempted murder. she received a sentence of 12 years and four months. claudia's friend julie -- >> the deal she was offered, she'll be out in eight years and she gets to see her daughter grow up. >> and that's why she took it. >> and at her sentencing, joe pesci showed up to support his ex-wife. as for the others, miguel quiroz and manny haro took plea deals. quiroz got a three-year suspended sentence in conjunction with his cooperation. haro received a life sentence with the possibility of parole. he was released in 2017. jorge hernandez was charged and convicted on attempted murder and conspiracy. he's serving a sentence of 77 years to life. in total, claudia haro served just nine years before being granted parole in august of 2019.

in film noir it's not uncommon to have fithe femme fatale get away with murder. >> both pretty much got maxed out on their sentences. >> the amount of time you spend behind bars is nothing to, you know, what i believe will be eternity afterwards, you know? and i believe that, you know, we all pay, one day, no matter what. >> you seem remarkably free of anger. >> i am. and everyone should be in this world. you know, she made a mistake. i've made mistakes. no one's perfect. >> 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 $5 steak. and the men who somehow find it

in themselves to forgive them. that's all for this edition of "dateline extra." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >> it was like hearing a ghost, i'm here, asking for help. >> it was like hearing a ghost, a voice from beyond the grave. >> there's no way i can go back. >> can she help solve her own murder? >> so surreal. this is something that happens to other people, not to you. >> she was a dancer, who married a dashing photographer. they seemed a perfect family until the