but for all his suspicions, birdsall couldn't prove a thing.until a man who knew nick harvey called the police and said -- >> nick harvey came to him and offered him some money, several hundred dollars to say can you drive me down to long beach? >> reporter: he agreed. they met at a park and ride parking lot, and he drove nick's car. the driver also said nick told him why he needed to go to long beach. >> nick harvey said he was an enforcer for the local drug dealers up there. so he thought he was coming down here just for that one reason. >> reporter: honestly, he had no idea the agenda included murder, said the driver. >> he never knew that he was going to come down to take someone's life. >> reporter: of course, the guy was probably lying. so they put him under arrest. anyway, his claim that he thought he was driving a drug enforcer didn't make a lick of sense. the notion that suburban housewife lynn schockner was somehow tangled up with drug dealers and had been targeted for execution was frankly preposterous. lynn had been living a quiet l

. >> what is bowe birdsall doing today customer. >> i don't know. is out of the army, he is not in jail, he pled guilty, got time served, does not have va care which is i think it's an oversight on our government's part. they gave him a discharge to characterize such that a guy that was a pow for five years and ultimately gave us a lot of pretty good intelligence on the network that held him can't get healthcare now. i go into any va and get healthcare, i do it. i have a problem, i can go into the va. depends on whether or not wearing him and whether the figure out the problem is to fix it. but at least have the option. >> he does not have the option. and so the one option that i think i have to give him his option, i wrote a book about you, i invaded the worst part of your life, so are you in court every day, your job was clenching, your grimacing, raw stuff exposed. particularly for very private person. other people don't like to do that. and so i think i owe him the option of not being my friend. not being my pal, i don't have to be up in the bus