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mobster joe pesci. but she had a strong alibi. >> do you know who shot garrett? >> i don't know. >> and that's only the start of the twists in this hollywood mystery. >> this is one of those "stranger than fix" things. nobody would write a script like this. >> most stunning of all, what didn't happen. >> my mom said to me, don't you [ bleep ] die. hit harder than bullets. my mom never swore. >> "the plot thickens." hello, and welcome to "dateline extra". i'm craig melvin. garrett warren us with a stunt man, used to handling danger on set, but certainly not at home, where the divorced dad doted on his daughter. then one night he opened the door and faced a hail of bullets.

at work, garrett was focused on the details. what detail would help investigators catch the gunman? >> ready. and action. >> 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 action movie with a plot that includes all the elements of classic film noir. a mystery featuring an assassin, a femme fatale, a hollywood star and a stunt man who takes the fall. and as for the money, we'll get to that. let's start with the biggest name on the marquee, joe pesci,

famous for roles as cold-blooded killer. this drama would costar his ex wife, claudia haro, a model and actress who appeared with pesci in "casino." supporting staff includes her brother manny haro not an actor, but an actual tough guy who did time in prison and harbor as a secret in his past. and claudia's second husband, garrett warren, hollywood stuntman and martial arts expert. a man very familiar with danger. fade in, 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. when comes our first plot twist. three shots into his body. money 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're not going to believe what happened. what? garrett's been shot. >> wally crowder 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 friend osar you can count a friend on one hand. garrett was that friend to me. >> wally's been in the business for more than 30 years. >> garrett warren was probably the finest fight man you can ask for. i had hired him on several

shows, got to know him, watched his expertise, phenomenal athlete/stuntman. >> you've probably seen garrett warren's work, you just didn't know it. his stunt work was featured in "charlie's angels" and "double-team" with jean claude van damme. wally says his percent was not what you would expect. >> garrett was a very focused individual. people think of stuntmen as daredevils. that's the last person i want on my job. i want the very best at what they do. >> but towards end of 1997, wally says that focus shifted the minute garrett warren met claudia haro. >> beautiful woman, just wanted garrett to be happy, he had found somebody it seemed like he genuinely loved and wanted to start a life with. >> there was something special about her. i think people that got to know her, just a beautiful soul.

i think men were attracted to that as much as her beauty. >> claudia's good friend julie araskog remembers when claudia and garrett first got together. >> one day she says to you, i met this guy. >> and she was very excited. i was big fan of garrett's. he was sweet and funny and she just seemed so happy with him. and i should say, actually, joe and i both were very supportive. >> by joe she's referring to claudia's ex-husband, a character actor who became a star by playing mafia tough guys, joe pesci. sounds like their relationship didn't end badly. >> not at all. they're like family, very, 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 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 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. >> we love you, too. >> but happy scenes like this one did not last. claudia and garrett couldn't make it work. >> it was a series of events. it just 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, but 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 gayman 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 it would be road rage, someone he tangled with on the freeways. mr. warren is a stuntman. guessing he doesn't always drive the speed limit or use his blinker to change lanes. >> could be possible. >> or could be personal. >> could have been an ex-business partner or someone who he was dating that was jealous, maybe a ex-husband or ex-boyfriend. there was an array of possibles

on who could have done this. >> possibilities that led from the bloody crime scene to bright lights of the movie business to the parts of l.a. that tourists never see. >> there seemed to be an entire cast of suspects who may have wanted garrett dead. police started making a list while the stuntman's friends prepared for worst. coming up -- getting ready to say good-bye to a friend. >> i'm going to lose my friend. he's not going to make it. all these things run through your head. the time you spent together, the things that maybe you should have said that you didn't. >> when "the plot thickens" continues. inues. introducing the all-new 2021 gla suv. starting at just $36,230.

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if his luck may have run out after a gunman showed up at his house, pumped four bullets into him and left him for dead. as investigators began their work, garrett's loved ones began to say good-bye. then they got a surprise that seemed straight out of a showbiz script. fade in. northridge hospital, daytime. wally crowder rushed to bedside of his buddy garrett warren, a movie stuntman who had been 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 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 our second twist? it's one that neither garrett's family nor the gunman saw coming. this is garrett warren today. >> thank god i'm still here. i mean, i was very fortunate, i was 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 as vivid now as it was then. here's bullet one. >> to be honest with you, when a bullet hits you, you don't really know that it hit you. it's not like you see in the movies. and as i slipped to the side and it hit me center mass, it went by my chest, passed my heart and stuck in the rib cage right here, it's still there right

now. >> then bullet two. >> so i looked down and back up, here came another one, i slipped my head to the side, when that happened, hit me in the neck and went straight out my back. >> bullet number three. >> then i realized, okay, this is for real. i went to close the door and he shot center mass, hit me in the hip, straight out my back, past my hip. that one hurt. that one hit my bone. >> if that sounds gruesome, hang on for what's next. >> i fell back behind my door to the ground and 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. as i did this it hit me in the eye, and came out my ear and got stuck in the wall behind my head. >> pretty good reflexes. >> but if it was "the matrix," wasn't good. like keanu go back and bullet still hitting him. as much as i moved, still got hit. >> somehow, the bullet that went through garrett's head missed his brain. >> you know when tell you your

life passes before your eyes? it doesn't pass before your eyes. you run through it. you think about everything that happened in your life and you wonder, did i do anything wrong and 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 gunman took two shots at her but he missed. and then, out of bullets, he fled. >> i looked at her and i said, i love you mom. i'll see you on the other side. my mom said to me don't you [ bleep ] die. i was shocked. hit me harder than the bullets, my mom never swore. and here she was, she shook me and said, don't you [ bleep ] die. you've been a fighter all your life, fight one more time for me. i looked at her and said, all right, you got it, 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. this was the things that poetry was written about this can things that movies were made of. >> hi, daddy. what's up? >> that brief marriage produced their daughter kyla, and even though the marriage didn't last, the bond both parents felt with kyla surely did. >> my daughter's being born was the most amazing part of my life and probably one of the greatest things i can leave as my legacy i guess. >> but when the marriage broke up, there was a nasty fight over who would get custody of kyla. in 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 there was no evidence of abuse. but it was shortly after that that gunman showed up at

garrett's home. it was naturally after that, the defen detectives shbrought in claudia for questions. >> just another road we went down in the investigation. could it be an ex? >> claudia was cooperative, didn't appear to have ties to the shooting, had a strong alibi, expressed concern for garrett. investigators were satisfied she wasn't involved. they kept talking to garrett who had gotten a glimpse of the man who shot him. >> it was very difficult to decipher what ethnicity he was because i was looking through a peephole. >> not someone you knew? >> no. >> sheriffs department tried to piece together theories. i'm guessing you asked garrett if he was carrying on with someone's wife or girlfriend. >> yes, everything was being looked at in his life or lifestyle, his business. >> an exciting high energy business from the gym he owned

to the film circle he is ran in. garrett warren had no shortage of adventures. but investigators received a tip suggesting that garrett also had enemies. >> sheriff's station received an anonymous letter advising that there were people involved at the gym that garrett was having relationship with, people that might be of interest to detectives. they might want to question these people. >> detectives checked out every name that came up, followed up every lead, but they hit a dead end every turn. depressing? >> very depressing. sometimes you just need that one break. you need a phone call that somebody wants to give up information. give us another road to go down, give us another 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 a photo that would make clear just what kind of danger garrett warren was facing. >> coming up -- was garrett

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>> and you can 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 issa. >> she was also a client of mine that i was personal trainer to. so while we were first training she said i really like you. i would like to date you. and i said i don't date clients. >> issa quit the gym. >> she came back and said, i'm not your client anymore. let's date. >> married two years after the shooting. maybe the happiness from second wife made it easier to get along with his first, claudia. the anger that had marked the divorce faded. >> back to schedule again, shared custody. we were on speaking terms and actually friendly.

>> it was about 18 months after garrett was shot that detectives got that lucky break. in an unrelated case san bernardino police served a search warrant on a man looking named miguel kyros looking for drugs but found something else turned spare tire in his trunk, 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 includes one of miguel quiroz. >> i said by all means, that's the guy i recognize. >> that's the guy that shot you. >> yep. >> no doubt in your mind? >> no doubt in my mind. >> in 2003, detectives arrested quiroz for attempted murder. he was neither a gangbanger nor hired gun. instead, he owned a pizza

parlor. sheriff's detective mark gayman. >> seemed like he was middle class, nice guy everybody in the community loved. >> 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 had never done any business deal before? >> no. >> connected in any way to the gym? >> no. >> any chance that he was driving a car near garrett that night? >> no. none whatsoever. >> so 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 quiroz would not be easy. multiple witnesses said they saw and spoke to him at his pizza parlor on the night of the shooting. these witnesses weren't really

beholden to him in any way. they were customers. >> yes, they were, frequent customers of the establishment. plus he had re-creaceiptreceipt. he handwrites on them. pretty good alibis. >> at the preliminary hearing, evidence pointed both ways. witnesses put him 80 miles away from the scene of the crime. but why did he have garrett's picture hidden in his car? how and why would garrett finger quiroz as the shooter? hoon chun was the deputy district attorney brought in from major crimes unit. he knew he had more work to do. you got a guy stopped for drug charges, he's got a map hidden in his car of someone who was nearly a murder victim and a photograph of that guy. >> right. >> and the guy picks him out. >> right, so you think what's the question. >> aren't there people on death row for less than that? >> sometimes there is more to the story than meets the eye,

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service is being planned at arlington national cemetery. now back to "dateline". welcome back to "dateline extra". i'm craig melvin. miguel quiroz was charged with the murder of garrett warren. garrett i.d.'d him as the shooter, but miguel had a sol it alibile so investigators kept digging, and soon they made a discovery -- a clue that indicated garrett was still in danger. here again is josh mank wits. >> fade in, los angeles county, california. garrett warren was gunned down, shot four times in his own home, but somehow survived. it hit his character, really -- a hollywood stunt man, martial artist and former fighter.

not only did he survive but he was able to identify his shooter, man caught with what looked like a hit note in his car. >> and they tell you his name is miguel quiroz. >> yes. >> that name mean anything to you? >> not at the time at all. >> sound at fist like a strong case, but more prosecutor hoon chun investigated, the weaker it seemed to become. you've done a lot of work, mostly proved your defendant's alibi. >> sure. and really proved that he didn't do this. >> multiple witnesses put miguel quiroz 80 miles from garrett's home on the night of the shooting. and then, like a scene from "columbo", came the latest twist something prosecutors saw during a court hearing. >> i'm noticing something. first of all, miguel

quiroz was left-handed. shooter was described as right-handed. that's a little odd. >> odd because what left-handed person would try to commit murder with gun in his right hand? that's out of a movie. >> out of a movie. a script writer might do something like that but in real life didn't make any sense. >> then prosecutor chun saw this photo taken at a barbecue. >> in this photo you have garrett warren and he is facing miguel quiroz kneeling down, and their children are in front of them. can tell from the scar on garrett warren's face underneath the left ear this is post shooting. can tell from the ages of the children and lakers championship t-shirt that mr. quiroz is wearing this is 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.

so you think this is where garrett new him from? >> right. >> you think that's why he identified him as the shooter because he remembered him from this party? >> right. classic transformans. >> 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. >> so garrett was wrong in picking quiroz as the man who shot him. that left prosecutors with two questions -- who did shoot garrett? and since he had the photo and address in his trunk, could quiroz still somehow be involved? hoon chun began to rethink the case. >> the defense attorneys agreed that we could talk to mr mr. quiroz. they let us talk to him, and detectives and i kept coming back to the hit note, where it's found. he doesn't know garrett warren.

because remember, their interaction was very brief at the barbecue. >> detectives kept after quiroz. they know whoever ordered the hit really wanted garrett warren dead. here's one more twist -- the postmark on the note is from after the shooting. meaning that 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 re-hit, if you want to call it that. >> that finish the job note, says chun, 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. >> we go round and round and he admits he was one of the middle men. >> he wasn't the shooter, he was in on the plot and he was caught by his own carelessness. >> he explained that that 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. >> so, the reason you ended up finding that hit note under the spare tire in trunk of mr. quiroz's car was that he put it there for safekeeping and forgotten it? >> this is one of those stranger than fiction type things. nobody would write a script like this, because any self-respecting producer would have the look you're having, that's ridiculous. but people forget things. >> disorganized crime. >> yeah. >> luckily for processors, 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 wear a wire and help collect evidence on his cospiritc coconspiriters. so, as they say around here, the

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wits. fade in, los angeles county, nighttime, a police informant wears a wire as he talks to a partner in crime. >> i don't got to worry about you. you don't got to worry about me. >> yeah, you're not on my back. >> informant, miguel quiroz, pizza parlor owner turned small-time drug dealer, and the man found with hit note in his car targeting garrett warren. now he was collaborating with investigators. they already knew quiroz wasn't the shooter. man who actually pulled the trigger was old friend of his, jorge hernandez, heard here. >> you don't say nothing, i don't say nothing. >> as part of his deal with prosecutors, quiroz wore a body wire and approached hernandez at a party. quiroz said he hired him to kill garrett warren. on the tape hernandez makes it clear he didn't waste any money on transportation.

>> i used my own car. >> hernandez can be heard saying that he's sorry he didn't manage to kill garrett warren. >> i apologize to you. i'm not a good shot. >> and hernandez made clear he was ready to try again. >> just get the guns or whatever and we'll finish it off if that's what you need. >> speaking to prosecutor hoon chun, quiroz explained his own involvement, that he had been paid to hire hernandez as a hitman, and he explained where the trail led. mr. quiroz told you that he didn't do it but was in on the plan. >> right. >> and that he did it at behest of his friend manuel haro. >> correct. >> manny haro was miguel's long time friend. they worked together in the pizza business and in the drug business. 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 it for his sister claudia. >> who was married to garrett. >> who was once married to garrett and at the time going through a contentious divorce. on scale of 1 to 10, this was 11. >> this was about custody of the daughter. >> exactly. and she had antipathy expressed toward warren. >> she said you're going to bleed. generally it's a sign there are bad times to come. >> you're right. >> prosecutors believe they were beginning to understand the outlines of the plot to kill garrett warren. infuriated by custody battle, they believed claudia haro had set it all in motion, but proving that wouldn't be easy. investigators began by looking at how claudia might have persuaded her brother to get involve in the a murder.

investigators arrested them 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 dead. >> i didn't talk about me getting molested until i was at least 22 probably. >> manny 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 her daughter. those allegations were thoroughly invested and 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 molestation and my sister was the only one that i

confided in and told her about what happened to me when i was younger. >> had claudia manipulated manny by telling him only part of the story? >> did she let you know that the judge, someone independent in her child custody case, had found the allegations she was making against garrett or false? did she tell you that? >> she -- i never asked and she never told me. so i think she knew how to hit the nerve that he was molesting her. so i think she knew it was hitting a nerve. 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 telling me want to take him out. you know what that means, that slang, killed. >> manny haro, small-time

criminal, pointing finger of guilt at his sister, actress and mother who had been married to hollywood stardom and who had never had a problem with the law. it was hard to believe. except maybe for the intended victim of the murder plot, who believed claudia was behind it from the get go. >> i knew there was only one person that wanted this done to me. >> he felt that way even as the investigation point in the 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 did not feel the case was strong enough because manny haro had not agreed to testify against claudia, and the d.a.'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 garrett and

tell him, i arrested claudia h ark ro for hiring a hitman to kill you. >> and then you got to call him back. >> you're not going to believe it, but i got let her go. >> 48 hours after detectives arrested claudia, she was back on the street, completely free again. >> i guaranteed him 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? who are would she avoid prosecution? >> lying isn't just about saying the words and mouthing the words. the words have to make sense, and 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 than people think it is. >> coming up, claudia tells her story. >> you're day in the limelight. >> go ahead. >> do you know who shot garrett

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welcome back. manny haro toll his investigators his sister claudia manipulated him into planning an attempted hit on her ex husband garrett warren and then refused to testify against her. this has more hollywood twists in store. remember that hit note found in the trunk? it was about to take one more hit in the spotlight. here's the conclusion. >> reporter: closeup, claudia haro. she once played a show girl in a gangster movie. once married to a legendary movie gangster. now accused of hiring a hitman

in real life. sheriff's detectives arrested her, but the prosecutor 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. my sister, claudia approached me. claudia haro approached me. >> that made the difference. detectives rearrested claudia. this time, the prosecutor charged her with two counts of attempted murder and one count of pierconspiracy to commit mur. claudia denied everything. >> do you know who shot garrett

warren. >> no. >> do you know why he was shot? >> no, i don't know. >> was there enough to convict her. >> you got mr. quiroz's c confession and mr. haro and hernandez. but you don't have anything on claudia haro. >> the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be false on april 12th of 2000. the hit occur about a month and a week after that on may 20th. >> all of that is circumstantial. >> i agree. >> soon there was more. prosecutors say the handwriting on the hit note matched claudia haro's. and when prosecutors provided samples of letter to garrett with the hit notes they notice the misspelling of this word, agora, as in agora hills.

in the notes and garrett's letters it's mistelled the same way. a-u-g-o-r-a. claudia insists she never gave note osar maps to quiroz. >> duh give him notes? >> no that i can think of, no. >> if we had notes in your handwriting? >> they're not from me. i don't know. >> she claimed to know little of what manny haro had been up to. >> why would your brother, who never 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 help arrange it? >> i don't know. >> did you ever give your brother a large amount of money? >> no. >> any amount whatsoever. >> 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 ten grand to ice warren, where did she get the cash? detectives took a good look at her ex husband, tough guy joe pesci. remember that snapshot? that was taken at the hollywood hills home of joe pesci. >> we actually interviewed him and just wanted to ask if he gave her a large sum of money at that time. he denied he give her money. there was no evidence to indicate he had involvement. >> claudia haro said she wanted to do an interview with us, but we were not able to speak to her in jail. the picture that's drawn of her is sort of this vengeful woman who would stop at nothing to

keep her daughter away from her ex-husband. >> whoever gave you that information doesn't know claudia haro. he said if claudia's guilty of anything it's of having a criminal for a brother. >> i believe manny was angry about being molested and abuses and desperate to maintain his street credibility and then when he got caught he tried to blame it on his sister. >> not only that, but those hit notes allegedly written by claudia -- >> i'm convinced these are forgeries. claudia never wrote a hit note to anybody. nobody talked to her about whacking someone or murdering someone or shooting someone. >> he 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 two years and four months. her friend, julie. she'll be out in eight years and gets to see her daughter grow up. >> that's why she took it. >> as her sentencing, joe pesci showed up to support his next court. quiroz got a three-year suspended sentence. haro was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parol. he was release in the june of 2017. the hired gunman, jorge hernandez was tried and convicted on charges of attempted murder and conspiracy. he's serving a sentence of 77 years to life. in total, claudia haro served

just more than nine years before being granted parole in august 2019. in film noir it's not uncommon to have the femme fatale get away with the crime, and if claudia haro masterminded this murder she ended up getting a very good deal. >> claudia's brother manny who set it up and the actual shooter both got mocaxed out on their sentences. >> the amount of time you spend behind bars nothing to what i believe will be eternity afterwards. i believe we all pay one day, no matter what. >> you seem remarkably free of anger. i am. everyone should be in this world. she made a mistake. i made mistakes. no one's perfect. >> surprisesed? 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 i'm craig melbourne. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." three people come to me wearing suits, and one of them tells me that he hadn't made it. and i was like, no, he did. just go check. they come back and tell me, mrs. hall, your husband didn't make it. >> two women racing down a texas highway. >> she saw me, and then made the u-turn.