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>> you know what? 17 years old and you have just thrown the rest of your life away. >> reporter: she tried to explain the words, changed her story again, confessed to firing one gunshot. then admitted something else quite shocking. that she had enjoyed it. >> okay. ill tell you guys like i liked the adrenaline of it. >> i know you did it. >> i didnt like what caused the adrenaline rush. but i liked the adrenaline rush. >> reporter: thats a real shocker for you. you dont run into that in this lit...

You dont run into that in this little town too often. >> well, no. and you dont run into it with a young girl either. >> reporter: ballistics tests soon confirmed that the shell found in reids cigarette box matched spent shells found at the murder scene. the murder weapon, stolen from the same wisconsin farmhouse where reid and fester stole the red pickup truck. blood found on reids clothes and festers shoes matched the victim, wayne stock. and icing on the cake. dna found on the gold ring and t...

Adrenaline rush. but i liked the adrenaline rush. >> reporter: thats a real shocker for you. you dont run into that in this little town too often. >> well, no. and you dont run into it with a young girl either. >> reporter: ballistics tests soon confirmed that the shell found in reids cigarette box matched spent shells found at the murder scene. the murder weapon, stolen from the same wisconsin farmhouse where reid and fester stole the red pickup truck. blood found on reids clothes and festers s...

Young girl either. >> ballistics tests soon confirmed the shell matched the spent shells at scene. murder weapon stolen from the house where they stole the pickup truck. blood found on the shoes matched the victim. icing on the cake, dna found on the gold ring and marijuana pipe matched only fester and reed. both were charged, first-degree murder. of course, as all this was happening, back in nebraska, no one outside law enforcement knew a inc. thing. >> the stock children were in shock. >> we h...

>> well, no. and you dont run into it with a young girl either. >> reporter: ballistics tests soon confirmed that the shell found in reids cigarette box matched spent shells found at the murder scene. the murder weapon, stolen from the same wisconsin farmhouse where reid and fester stole the red pickup truck. blood found on reids clothes and festers shoes matched the victim, wayne stock. and icing on the cake. dna found on the gold ring and the marijuana pipe matched only fester and reid. both w...

Everybody seeing it in the country. >> interesting. they were there looking for the no arrests, and no charges have been charged in this. nobody charged with murder and nine people dead. why is that? do you think it is going to be difficult or impossible to get anyone to talk here, and drop the dime on anyone else? >> well, i -- theres a lot of video there, and there is more video that is out there, too, and so i dont think that just pause it is going to be be necessary fi for -- necessary for i...

Spree. three handguns and an ar-15 style assault weapon, not necessarily actually an ar-15 but that kind of a weapon, what is popularly known as an assault weapon. >> pete, do we know in terms of those weapons, if those were the weapons recovered from the scene, does that tell us anything about which weapons were actually used to kill all these people and commit the crime? do we know anything about that yet? >> reporter: ive asked that question and i think its too soon to tell. they have to go t...

They have to go through and do all the ballistics tests. and you know, thinking about past mass shooting scenes like this its taken several days before theyve had those answers. you know, frankly, when the suspect is dead, it changes the nature of the investigation. they still want to know everything about this person that they can. theyre especially eager to know what was in his mind, what caused it, where the weapons came from, what led up to it, and very importantly whether anyone else was in...

And thats time that we can invest in our athletes and changing the world. of. >> a quick programming note. usually at this time you see dr. siegel and somadi with housecall. we are continuing today with our coverage of the papal visit. we have an update on the freeway shootings in arizona. a man was arrested for a string of attacks. 21-year-old leslie merit is facing up to 15 counts including aggravated assault. investigators connecting him they say to at least four of those 11 shootings. they a...

Segment here, real news, investigators in the phoenix highway shootings are re-evaluating the possible timeline of events. saying the first shooting may have been a full week before what authorities initially thought. thats according to the maricopa county grand jury indictment against 21-year-old leslie alan merit jr. he is a suspect in at least four of the 11 freeway shootings, though he denies his involvement. will carr is in our west coast bureau with more on the investigation. >> that indic...