in the justice system. before pete died, he told us he still believed in it, too. pete coones: a lot of this comes right back to everything he told me. freedom is not free. it's tough. and you always stand up for what you believe in. and i did. hello, i'm craig melvin, and this is "dateline." garrett warren: you know when they tell you your life passes before your eyes? you think about everything that happened in your life and, you wonder am i ready to die? craig melvin: he was a hollywood stuntman, but this was no hollywood stunt. this was a hit.

craig melvin: shot four times and left dying on the floor. mark gayman: somebody definitely wanted him dead. craig melvin: but who and why? you'll meet lots of possible suspects. garrett warren: oh, my gosh. craig melvin: including his ex-wife, an actress once married to movie mobster, joe pesci. but she had a strong alibi. do you know who shot garrett warren? i don't know. craig melvin: and that's only the start of the twists in this hollywood mystery. hoon chun: this is one of those stranger than fiction kind of thing. certainly, nobody would write a script like this. craig melvin: the most stunning twist of all was what didn't happen. garrett warren: my mom said to me, don't you [bleep] die. that hit me harder than the bullets. my mom never swore. [music playing] hello, and welcome to "dateline." garrett warren was a hollywood stuntman who made his living

pulling off death-defying acts. then one night, he opened the door for a stranger, and found himself in the middle of a terrifying scene that was all too real. garrett was looking down the barrel of a gun. moments later four shots rang out. and soon investigators would be embroiled in a who done it with more twists than a feature film. here's josh mankiewicz with "the plot thickens." ready, and action. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): action. it ranks second only to money as the single most important word in hollywood. and here in la, 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.

cut. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): a mystery featuring an assassin, a femme fatale, a hollywood star, and a stuntman 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 his roles as a cold-blooded killer. this drama would co-star pesci's ex-wife, claudia haro, a model and actress who appeared along with pesci in the gangster film "casino." the supporting cast includes claudia's brother, manny haro, not an actor but an actual tough guy who did time in prison and 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.

fade in, early evening in the quiet town of westlake village, california, outside of la. 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, then comes our first plot twist. three shots into his body. one more into garrett's right eye. the daredevil's luck had run out. i called, and his mother answered the phone screaming and crying, just distraught. wally, wally you're not going to believe what happened. what? you know. garrett's been shot. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): wally crowder was a fellow stuntman and garrett's good friend. wally crowder: 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 you can count a friend on one hand. garrett was that friend to me. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): wally's been in the business for more than 30 years. wally crowder: garrett warren was probably the finest fight man you could ask for. i had hired him on several shows, got to know him, watched his expertise. phenomenal athlete stuntman. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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 crowder: garrett was a very focused individual. people think of stuntmen as oh, daredevils, crazy people, that's the last person i want on my job. i want the very best at what they do. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): but towards the end of 1997, wally says that focus shifted the minute garrett warren met claudia haro.

wally crowder: beautiful, beautiful woman. we just wanted garrett to be happy. he had found somebody that he seemed like he genuinely loved and wanted to start a life with. there was something special about her. i think people who got to know her, she just has a beautiful soul, and i think men were attracted to that as much as to her beauty. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): claudia's good friend julie araskog remembers when claudia and garrett first got together. one day she says to you, i met this guy. yes, and she was very excited. i was always a big fan of garrett's. he was sweet, he was funny, and she just seemed so happy with him. and, you know-- i should say actually, joe and i both were very supportive. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): by joe, she is referring to claudia's ex-husband, a character actor who became a star by playing mafia tough guys, joe pesci. it sounds like her marriage to joe pesci didn't end badly. not at all, not at all. they're like family. you know, they're very, very close. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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. wally crowder: we felt that this would be the gal that garrett would end up with. no more dating, no more running around. i'm going to end up with claudia. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): garrett and claudia were married less than a year after they met. julie araskog: in the beginning, i think it was a very good relationship. garrett warren: oh, my gosh. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): they soon had a beautiful daughter, kyla. garrett warren: look at the hairdo. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): the new couple enjoyed being parents. claudia haro: i love you guys. i love you too, babe. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): but happy scenes like this one did not last. claudia and garrett couldn't make it work. julie araskog: it was a series of events. it just wasn't the right marriage. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): garrett went back to his old life as a stuntman, 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. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): but who? detective mark gayman of the la county sheriff's department said investigators looked at every angle. remembering how the gunman at first asked garrett about his brand new volvo. they wondered if this could be road rage, someone garrett had tangled with on the la freeways. josh mankiewicz: mr. warren is a stuntman. yes. i'm guessing, maybe, he doesn't always drive the speed limit or use his blinker when it's time to change lanes.

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josh mankiewicz (voiceover): fade in, let's make like dice and roll. northridge hospital, daytime. wally crowder rushed to the bedside of his buddy, garrett warren, a movie stuntman who'd been shot with real live bullets. wally crowder: i run into garrett's mom and realize i'm going to lose my friend. he's not going to make it. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): garrett was in critical condition. wally crowder: 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.

josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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 is bullet one. garrett warren: to be honest with you, when a bullet hits you, you don't really know that it hits 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 right in front of my chest, passed by my heart, and is now stuck in my rib cage right here.

and it's still there. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): then bullet two. so i-- i looked down, i looked back up and here came another one. and i slit my head to the side, and when that happened, the bullet hit me here in the neck, and went straight out my back. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): bullet number three. then i realized, ok, this is for real. so i went to close the door, and he shot center mass at me. and when he did, i was turned sideways, and he hit me here in the hip and it went straight out my back. and passed my hip. that one hurt. you know, that one hit my bone. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): if that sounds gruesome, then 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. and when the gun was placed in my head, the first thing i did was, when i saw him squeeze the trigger, i flinched. just like this, like a fighter would. and as i did this, the bullet hit me here in the eye, went straight through my eye, and came out my ear, and got stuck in the wall behind my head. those are some pretty good reflexes. yeah, i mean, but if it was the "matrix," it wasn't good. you know, that's like keanu going back and the bullet actually hitting him. so as much as i moved, i still got hit.

josh mankiewicz (voiceover): somehow, the bullet that went through garrett's head missed his brain. garrett warren: you know when they 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 did i not make up for it? am i ready to die? josh mankiewicz (voiceover): at the time of the shooting, garrett's mother was at his home helping with baby kyla. garrett's mother ran to see what was happening, and the gunman took two shots at her. but he missed. and then, out of bullets, he fled. i looked at her and i said, you know, 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. that hit me harder than the bullets. my mom never swore. and here she was, she shook me and she says, don't you [bleep] die. you've been a fighter all your life, fight one more time for me. and i looked at her, and i said, all right. you got it.

i'm not going to go. i'll stay. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): as garrett ran through his life, he looked back on his failed marriage to claudia haro. garrett warren: it was true love. it was the things that poetry was written about. you know, the thing that movies are made of. hi, daddy. what's up? josh mankiewicz (voiceover): that brief marriage produced their daughter kyla, and even though the marriage didn't last, the bond both parents felt with kyla surely did. garrett warren: my daughter's being born was amazing. it was the most amazing part of my life, and it's probably one of the greatest things that i can leave as my legacy, i guess. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): but 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 can 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 that we went down, you know, during the investigation. you know, it's like, hey, could it be a ex. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): claudia was cooperative. she didn't appear to have any ties to the shooting, and she 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'd gotten a glimpse of the man who shot him. garrett warren: it was very difficult to decipher what his ethnicity was because i was looking through a little peephole in my door. not somebody you knew? no, never knew him before. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): as garrett recovered from his wounds, the sheriff's department tried to piece together some theories. josh mankiewicz: i'm guessing detectives asked garrett if he was carrying on with somebody else's wife or girlfriend. yes, everything was being looked at in his life and his lifestyle, his business. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): an exciting, high-energy

lifestyle, from the gym he owned to the film circles he ran in. garrett warren had no shortage of adventures. but investigators received a tip suggesting that garrett also had enemies. mark gayman: [inaudible] sheriff's station received an anonymous letter, just kind of advising that there were some 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. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): detectives checked out every name that came up. they followed up on every lead, but they hit a dead end at every turn. depressing? very depressing. sometimes you just need that one break. you need a phone call that somebody wants to really give up some information, give us another road to go down, give us another adventure to try. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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. craig melvin: coming up. was garrett warren's would-be killer about to try for take-two? i'm scared to death someone's going to come back and finish it. craig melvin: when "dateline" continues. [music playing]

[piano music] josh mankiewicz: close up-- garrett warren, the stuntman who was

gunned down in his own home, but lived to tell the tale. he knew his would-be killer was still on the loose. and garrett was looking over his shoulder. garrett warren: i have a bulletproof vest on. i've invested whatever money i possibly can into all sorts of security around my house. i'm scared to death someone's going to come back and finish it. did you think there was ever going to be an arrest? no. i actually gave up on it and thought, eh, you know what? chalk it up to experience, and move on with your life, and that's it. and you did move on with your life. i did. josh mankiewicz: a year after his shooting, garrett still faced multiple surgeries and painful rehab. [grunting] he was back at work as a personal trainer at the gym he owned. and that's where he met isa. garrett warren: she was also a client of mine that i was the personal trainer to. so while we were first training, she said, you know, i really like you. i'd like to date you. and i said, well, i have a rule. i don't date clients. josh mankiewicz: so isa quit the gym.

and she came back saying, ok, well, i'm not in your gym anymore. i'm not your client. so let's date. josh mankiewicz: 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 visitation schedule again, back to shared custody. and we're on speaking terms, and we were actually friendly. josh mankiewicz: it was about 18 months after garrett was shot when detectives got that lucky break. in an unrelated case, san bernardino police served a search warrant on a car belonging to a man named miguel quiroz. they were looking for drugs, but they found something else under the spare tire in quiroz's trunk. it was a photograph of garrett warren with a circle drawn on it and garrett's home address, which very few people knew.

so detectives showed garrett a six pack, a photo lineup that included a photo of miguel quiroz. garrett warren: i'm looking at the pictures, and i say, by all means, that's the guy i recognize. that's the guy that shot you? yep. no doubt in your mind? no doubt in my mind. [tense music] josh mankiewicz: in 2003, detectives arrested miguel quiroz for attempted murder. he was neither a gangbanger nor a hired gun. instead, he owned a pizza parlor. sheriff's detective mark gayman. just seemed like he was your middle-class, very nice guy that everybody in the community loved. and yet garrett was identifying him as the shooter. yes. josh mankiewicz: other than garrett's idea of quiroz, there was nothing to suggest they had ever met. they'd ever done any business deal before? no. quiroz 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 was that quiroz would kill him not clear? there was no direct connection whatsoever. josh mankiewicz: and as detectives soon learned, proving an attempted murder charge against miguel quiroz wouldn't be easy. [film projector reeling] multiple witnesses said they saw and spoke to quiroz at his pizza parlor on the night of the shooting. these witnesses weren't really beholden to mr. quiroz in any way. they weren't members of his family. they were just customers. yes, they were. they were frequent customers of that establishment. plus, he had the receipts. you know, he handwrites on them. so it was pretty good alibis. josh mankiewicz: and so at quiroz's preliminary hearing, evidence pointed both ways. witnesses put quiroz nearly 80 miles away from the scene of the crime on the night it happened. but then why did quiroz 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 the major crimes unit. and he knew he had more work to do. you got a guy stopped for drug charges. right. he's got a map hidden in his car of somebody who was nearly a murder victim. sure. josh mankiewicz: and a photograph of that guy. right. - and the guy picks him out. - right. so you think, what's the question, right? aren't there are people on death row for less than that? sometimes there's more to a story than meets the eye, which is the case here. investigators discover another picture of garrett warren-- this one of him and the man he accused of shooting him. announcer: coming up-- hoon chun: this is one of those stranger-than-fiction kind of things. certainly, nobody would write a script like this. announcer: when "dateline" continues. [dramatic music] (cough cough) (sneeze) (♪♪) new alka-seltzer plus cold

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the death toll is rising in south korea after plane veered off the runway as it was landing at milan international airport and the southwest. south korean officials say 117 of the 181 passengers on board are dead. two people were rescued alive. dozens are missing. officials say the pilot declared mayday after issuing a bird strike alert. russian president putin apologized to the president of usher by scheffer the crash of a civilian airliner that killed 38 people. the kremlin said putin apologize for the fact the incident occurred in russian airspace. for now, back to dateline. " i'm craig melvin. police had just arrested suspected drug dealer miguel quiroz for the attempted murder of garrett warren. they'd been serving a search warrant on quiroz's car when they found garrett's photo and address in the trunk.

garrett later id'ed him as the shooter. but the case against quiroz just wasn't adding up. then a closer look at the evidence led to a stunning discovery. garrett warren wasn't out of danger yet. here again is josh mankiewicz with "the plot thickens." josh mankiewicz (voiceover): fade in, los angeles county, california. garrett warren was gunned down. shot four times in his own home, but somehow survived. it fit his character, really, a hollywood stuntman, martial artist, and former fighter. not only did he survive, but he was able to identify a shooter, a man who'd been caught with what looked like a hit note in his car. josh mankiewicz: and they tell you his name is miguel quiroz. yes. that name mean anything to you? not at the time at all. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): it sounded, at first, like a strong case.

but the more law enforcement and prosecutor hoon chun investigated, the weaker it seemed to become. josh mankiewicz: so you've done a lot of work, and mostly what you've done, is help prove your defendant's alibi. sure, so far, right? and eventually, and really prove the alibi that he didn't do this. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): remember, multiple witnesses put miguel quiroz about 80 miles away from garrett's home on the night of the shooting. and then, like a scene from "columbo," came this latest twist, something the prosecutor saw during a court hearing. i'm noticing some things. first of all, miguel quiroz is left handed. the shooter was described by the witnesses, the victim and his mother, as right handed. and that's a little odd. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): odd because what left-handed person would try to commit murder with a gun in his right hand? josh mankiewicz: that's like out of a movie. yeah, it's out of a movie, right. a scriptwriter might do something like that, but to-- in real life this doesn't happen-- didn't make any sense. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): and then

prosecutor chun saw this photo taken at a party, a barbecue. hoon chun: in this photo, you have garrett warren, and he is facing miguel quiroz, and they're 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 that mr. quiroz is wearing, that this is very shortly after the shooting. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): the two men were both guests at the same party after the shooting but before garrett made his eyewitness id of quiroz. so you think this is where garrett knew miguel quiroz from? right. you think that's why you identified him as the shooter, because he remembered him from this party? right. classic transference. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): to both the prosecutor and to garrett, the photo explained the id. garrett warren: and for some reason, when i saw him in the photo lineup, it clicked. and i said, that must be him, i recognized him.

and obviously it wasn't him. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): so 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 hoon chun began to rethink the case. the defense attorneys agreed that we could talk to mr. quiroz. and they let us talk to him. and the detectives and i keep coming back to this hit note. to where it's found. he doesn't know garrett warren. because remember, that-- their interaction was very brief at that barbecue. detectives kept after quiroz. they knew that whoever ordered the hit, really wanted garrett warren dead. because 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. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): the one unavoidable piece of evidence that finally cracked miguel quiroz. we go back round and round about this, and finally he admits that he was one of the middlemen. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): miguel quiroz admitted that while he wasn't the shooter, he was in on the plot. and that 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 the trunk of mr. quiroz's car was that he'd put it there for safekeeping and then forgotten it? this is one of those stranger than fiction kind of thing.

certainly, nobody would write a script like this because they would have kind of look that any self-respecting director or producer would have. the look that you're having in any kind of hollywood movie and saying, come on, that's-- that's ridiculous. but people forget things. disorganized crime. yeah. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): luckily for prosecutors, 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 co-conspirators. and so, as they say around here, the plot thickened. craig melvin: coming up. the world's worst hitman. jorge hernandez: i apologize, dude. i'm not a good shot. just get the guns, or whatever, and i'll get-- we'll-- we'll finish it off if that's what you need. craig melvin: when "dateline" continues. [music playing] let's monopoly go!

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josh mankiewicz (voiceover): fade in, los angeles county, nighttime. a police informant wears a wire as he talks to a partner in crime. man: i don't got to worry about you. and i know you don't got to worry about me. miguel quiroz: yeah. [inaudible] you know i'm not like that. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): the informant, miguel quiroz. he's the pizza parlor owner turned small-time drug dealer. and the man found with a hit note in his car targeting garrett warren. now, he was cooperating with investigators. detectives already knew quiroz wasn't the shooter. quiroz told them the man who actually pulled the trigger was an old friend of his named jorge hernandez, heard here. jorge hernandez: i mean, with all due respect, if you don't say nothing, i don't say nothing. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): as part

of his deal with prosecutors, quiroz wore a body wire and approached hernandez at a party. quiroz said he hired hernandez for $10,000 to kill garrett warren. on the tape, hernandez makes clear that he didn't waste any of that money on transportation. jorge hernandez: i used my own car. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): hernandez can be heard saying that he's sorry he didn't manage to kill garrett warren. jorge hernandez: i apologize, dude. i'm not a good shot. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): and hernandez made clear he was ready to try again. jorge hernandez: just get the guns and whatever, and i'll get-- we'll-- we'll finish it off if that's what you need. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): speaking to prosecutor hoon chun, quiroz explained his own involvement that he'd been paid to hire hernandez as a hitman. and he explained where the trail led. josh mankiewicz: mr. quiroz told you that he didn't do it but that he was in on the planning. right. and that he did it at the behest of his friend, manuel haro. correct. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): manny hero was miguel

quiroz's his longtime friend. 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. and manuel haro was doing this for his sister, claudia. who was married to garrett. who was once married to garrett, but was, at the time, going through a very contentious divorce. on a scale of 1 to 10, this was an 11. this was about custody of their daughter. this was about custody of the daughter, exactly. and she had a lot of antipathy that was expressed towards garrett warren. she said you were going to bleed, right? yup. josh mankiewicz: 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 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 involved in a murder. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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. i really didn't really talk about me getting molested until i was at least 22, probably. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): manny he told investigators he'd 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-- my sister was the only one that i confided in, and told her about my mo-- you know, molestation thing that happened to me when i was younger. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): had claudia manipulated manny by telling him only part of the story? hoon chun: did she ever let you know that the judge, you know, 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? 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 who was hitting her nerve that way because i never really talked about it. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): manny said his sister's exact language, was that she wanted garrett taken out.

i don't-- i'm almost positive she didn't use the word "murder" or "killed," but it's like me telling him i want you-- you to take him out. you know what that means in-- in that slang. means take him out, meaning, kill. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): manny haro, a small-time criminal, was pointing the finger of guilt straight at his sister, an actress, a mother who'd 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. and there is only one person that wanted this done to me. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): he felt that way even as the investigation pointed in every other direction. until finally, five years after the shooting, detectives arrested claudia haro. i did think to myself, you know, thank god, you know, finally i don't feel crazy anymore. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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 da's office declined to file charges. josh mankiewicz: 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, guess what, i've arrested claudia haro for hiring a hitman to kill you. and then you got to call him back and say-- you're not going to believe it, but i'm have-- i got to let her go. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 48 hours after detectives arrested claudia, she was back on the street, completely free once again. but i guaranteed him that i would not stop. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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 simply by denying she'd been involved? the bottom line principle is this, lying isn't just about saying the words and mouthing the words.

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josh mankiewicz: close up: claudia haro. she once played a showgirl in a gangster movie, once was married to a legendary movie gangster. now she was accused of hiring a hit man in real life. sheriff's detectives arrested her. but prosecutor hoon chun not file charges, and claudia was turned loose. chun felt he needed stronger evidence. i did not think there was a viable case at that point. narrator: but claudia's brother manny changed that. he took a plea deal from prosecutors and finally agreed to testify against his sister. hoon chun: at some point, does somebody approach you about doing something, killing somebody? yes. hoon chun: ok. my sister claudia approached me. claudia haro approached me. josh mankiewicz: 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. josh mankiewicz: 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. hernandez on tape. right. josh mankiewicz: but you don't have anything proving that claudia haro set this in motion? we have the motive, the contentious divorce proceedings. we have the timing of this because what happens is that the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be false on april 12, i believe, of 2000. the hit occurs about a month and a week after that on may 20 of 2000. ok, but all of that is circumstantial. i agree. i agree. josh mankiewicz: but soon there was more. prosecutors said the handwriting on the hit

note matched claudia haro's. and when prosecutors compared samples of claudia's letters to garrett with the hit notes, they noticed the misspelling of this word, agoura, as in agoura hills, the location of garrett warren's home. on the hit note found in quiroz's car and in claudia's letters, the word is misspelled the exact same way, a-u-g-o-r-a. claudia insisted she had never given any notes or maps to miguel quiroz. did you ever give him anything like paperwork? no, not that i can think of. and no. so if we had, say, someone's address written in your handwriting-- i don't know. not from me. i don't know. josh mankiewicz: she claimed to know very little about what her brother manny haro might have been up to. why would your brother, who'd never even met garrett-- right. --want him killed?

i don't know. that's not-- i-- i-- why would he tell us that you're the one that asked him if he'd kill and help 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've ever had a large amount of money. josh mankiewicz: 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 that he ever gave her a large amount of money. then there was no evidence to indicate that he had any involvement.

josh mankiewicz: 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 mesereau best known for successfully defending michael jackson. 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. josh mankiewicz: mesereau says that if claudia is guilty of anything, it is of having a career criminal for a brother. tom mesereau: 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. and then when he got caught, he tried to blame it on his sister to try and gain freedom for himself. josh mankiewicz: not only that, he said, but those hit notes allegedly written by claudia? tom mesereau: 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. josh mankiewicz: 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? narrator: 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 4 months. claudia's friend julie. interviewer: the deal she was offered, she'll be out in eight years and she gets to see her daughter grow up. subject 1: and that's why she took it. narrator: 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 return for his cooperation. haro was sentenced to life in prison

with the possibility of parole. he was released in june 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. if claudia did mastermind this attempted murder, she ended up getting a very good deal. interviewer: claudias brother manny, who set it up and the actual shooter, both pretty much got maxed out on their sentences. 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 is perfect.

josh mankiewicz: surprised? you shouldn't be. that trifecta of love, money, and murder isn't new to hollywood. neither are stories about beautiful women who turn out to be as tough as a five-dollar steak and the men who somehow find it in themselves to forgive them. that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. [music playing] ateline." i'm andrea canning, and this is "dateline."nge . i'm andrea canning, and this is dateline. you get a knock at your door that would change your life? >> yeah, it was a pretty dark time. >> she was shocked. the last thing that you expect to hear is police officers telling you that somebody's trying to kill your husband.