Manfred Schockner
This will likely be one of my shorter blogs, and for those of you who know, and sometimes get frustrated with my "books" this may be a pleasant surprise. Not only is there not an extreme amount of detailed information about this case, but really there are few things that have drug out or were extraordinary. On the surface this looks like your "run of the mill" (that sounds horrible) spouse kills spouse because they do not want to lose money in a divorce case. Even the fact that the husband was eventually convicted because he had hired someone to kill his estranged wife is not that unusual. But this case made headlines and not for the standard reasons, such as the fact that the husband was a millionaire, although that would have done it too. This case became "sensational" because while Lynn Schockner was being murdered in her backyard police officers were waiting at the gate to her yard for her to unlock it. On November 8, 2004 in Bixby Knolls Calif...