the children of wayne and sharmon stock were still reeling from their grief as they bury their parents less than a week after perhaps the most horrific murder their little town had ever seen. and then to grief add shock. late one evening son andy answered his phone and heard the news from one of the detectives. andy called his sister. about 12:30 at night. he says, tam, i need you to be awake. are you awake? i said, yeah, what s going on? he said, they arrested matt and nick. and i said, matt and nick who? and he said, our cousin matt and nick sampson. reporter: it was true. matt livers had confessed to the murders of his aunt and uncle. put the gun to her face and blew her away. reporter: and he d named an accomplice. 22-year-old nick sampson. a cousin of matt s on another
year, an easter egg hunt. grandma and papa s yard. reporter: or mom and dad to tami who brought her own son, like always. y found their easter eggs. they found their easter baskets. mom always made every individual easter basket special to that child. reporter: they were like that where wayne and sharmon stock, generous, steady, always there for their children. the eldest steve and daughter tami, the youngest andy. they were loving parents. i don t think they ever missed a game of any of ours. dad would stop farming just to be at a game. same way with mom. reporter: wayne stock was a businessman farmer. ran the stock hay company, and a very successful business it was. wayne owned a thousand acres of land along with rental property. sharmon was locally famous for her specialty cakes, wedding and
in-laws but left his young puppy with his parents. called mom and dad on my way home. and said i m going to come get the dog. they said, oh, no, he can just stay here. he ll be fine. you know, he sleeps on the porch. and we ll watch him till monday morning. reporter: would history have been different had he listened to his parents? hard to know, of course. they met me on the deck at the back of the house. and we talked about easter and what they did, and they each gave me a hug and i went home. reporter: you remember that moment, it makes you feel pretty emotional, doesn t it? yeah. yeah. reporter: next morning, andy, who was being groomed to run stock hay himself some day, drove the half mile from his place to his parents farm, ready to go to work. i drove in and i went in the shop. and dad s pickup was there, which i thought was a little bit strange. so i thought, well, i ll see if
and sharmon stock tried to make sense of the release of the man they had been told had killed their parents. it s a difficult situation. none of us are attorneys. none of us are in law enforcement. and you re just sitting there trying to take it all in, trying to figure out, okay, how does this work? why does this happen? reporter: hadn t their cousin matt livers confessed? at least he was still in custody. as were those two teens from wisconsin. so it wasn t as if the whole case was falling apart. at least not yet. but if anyone did not feel confused in the october chill, it was defense attorneys bear and soucie, who were as sure as
branch of the family tree. my husband had given me the phone. i was sitting up in bed. and i said, andy, should i be shaking? he said, that s normal, the shock. reporter: but matt livers had been with them at easter dinner just a few hours before. now he said that he and nick had returned to kill his aunt and uncle. our first reaction was grandma she had had just lost her only son and her grandson is being arrested for this. and just like us, she s like, i don t understand. and i said, grandma, none of us understand any of this. reporter: did it give you any sense of at least somebody has been found responsible? did it make you feel any better? we move on to the next phase of this. we re in the going to wonder for the rest of our lives. i was relieve to n they had somebody. reporter: with livers already in jail, police descended on murdock to arrest nick sampson. he was a cook at bulldog s bar in murdock.