they were not going to share their property with anyone outside that skinner family, even stephen watkinsthe wagons for themselves, and he was the enemy. >> jennifer and her family feared stephen would be successful in getting overnight visitation at that hearing. he was also continuing his quest for sole custody of sydney. but he never made it to the courthouse. he was killed the night before at his estranged wife's home. according to investigators, the skinner family had been so concerned about the hearing, jennifer's mother hired a private investigator to witness stephen picking up the baby the evening he was killed, perhaps to observe something that could be used against him at the hearing the following day. >> perhaps some dirt, if she was crying when dad picked her up or maybe he wasn't putting her in the baby car seat. >> state police learned jennifer's mother told the private i not to show up, not long before stephen was to arrive. >> less than two hours later stephen watkins is laying dead on the dining room floor. >> suddenly the child custody issue that posed such a problem for