here's josh mankiewicz with the plot thickens. >> ready and action! >> action. it ranks second only to money. i as the single most important word in hollywood. and here in l. a., where life and art are often the same form, there is a real life drama that rivals in the action movie with a plot that includes all the element of a 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 will 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 drauma would costar pesci ex-wife, who appeared with pesci in the film casino. it includes claudia's brother, now the nectar, but an actual tough guy who did time in prison. and someone who harbored a terrible secret in his past. and finally, claudia second husband, garrett warner, a hollywood stuntman in martial arts expert, a man very familiar with danger. faith in. early evening in the quiet lake of west lake village, california, outside of l. a.. stunned then

here's josh mankiewicz with the night lynsie disappeared. >> sometimes the facts are as clear as theern california sky. but other times, you have to know where it will look. to see the truth. this man has made a career of noticing what others did not. >> what is his reputation? >> a meticulous investigator. just pours over volumes of audience. and finds things that other investigators do not find. >> correct. >> does this man act guilty? does he know more than he is saying? >> i didn't know anything was going on. >> what about this man? can you believe the story that he is telling? >> i was supposed to pick her up twice. and she -- she did not show up on either day. >> the evidence whisper was not present at any of those interviews. but watching them helped him solve the mystery of what happened to our vivaciously little woman. and bring answers to the mother who loved her. >> i was always proud of her, she was a real fighter. >> lynsie ekelund arrived on july 7th, 1980. she was the youngest of three. maybe that fighting spirit isn't visible in her photos. but her mother nancy said i

here's josh mankiewicz with "twisted tale". >> i was asleep, in bed. it was about 5:00 in the morning. >> frightening doesn't begin to describe what she went through. >> and the next thing i knew, there was someone laying on top of me. >> she was instantly the losing player in someone else's game of power and control. >> their hand was over my mouth. >> if you're wondering, there was no way to fight back. >> i must have been screaming. >> this woman doesn't want us to use her real name. we're calling her samantha. and she sharing with us things she's told to very few people. >> this was a man? >> man. >> bigger than you? >> felt very big. strong. i couldn't move. >> september 29th, 2009. the sun wasn't up yet. and in samantha's bedroom, a mask intruder was holding her down. she had no idea who than then was or what he was planning. >> he said, well this is going to take a couple hours. i was -- i think just in shock. >> the details of what happened to samantha are not only frightening, but also deeply strange. she's come forward because she believes he

josh mankiewicz: everyone who knew. him said lonnie kocontes was a resourceful hardworking attorney.e years >> everyone who knew him said that lonnie was a resourceful, howard working attorney. according to prosecutors, in the time leading up to his trial. lonnie had done more than file motions. they said he also tried to hire a hitman to take out the key witness against him. his ex-wife, amy nguyen. lonnie thought the hitman's name was greg, he was wrong. it was bill and bill wasn't a hit man. he was an undercover cop. who followed up on their conversations with a letter to lonnie. >> i asked him to specify some of the terms that we were using during this investigation. to get clarification from him. >> that sounds like it's gonna make someone suspicious. >> and it did. >> lonnie may have realized that he had been the target of a sting operation. and true to form, he went on the offensive. asking his attorney's office to call the police. >> lonnie never said that he wanted amy nguyen killed. it's only that investigator that can try that. >> he cut off communication after that? >> he

here's josh mankiewicz with "as night fell". >> they seem so icongueous. the soaring majesty of utah's wasatch mountains and the story of a beautiful woman, struck down in her youth. it was a lot of things. tragic. crushing. stunning. but was it an accident? or a suicide? or a murder? police felt they knew. but as most cops who will tell you, both the evidence and the jury have their own stories to tell. and the answers are not always so clear. certainly, that is true for this story. and quite possibly for the woman at its heart. her name? heidy wagner. >> as a baby, she was favored. everybody loved her. she could do no wrong. >> autumn was one of heidy's four sisters. >> she was just special. she would walk into the room and she was ready for that good time. >> heidy grew up with no fewer than seven older siblings. tell me about her growing up? >> she was a fun loving girl. she was rather shy, though. so heidy seemed like an appropriate name. >> heidy's mom, janet. >> the family was boisterous. she's kind of get embarrassed easily. she hide her face. [lau

josh mankiewicz: does she say who shot her husband? she said it was just a figure,