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Womans claim that she picked up brian while he was hitchhiking alone in wyoming on august 29th. >> he offered to pay us $200 to give him a ride, like ten miles. he then told us hes been camping for multiple days without his fiance. >> reporter: all this on the heels of body cam video from august 12th, showing an emotional police encounter with the couple. >> weve been fighting all morning and he wouldnt let me in the car before. he told me i needed to calm down. >> reporter: all the while, petit...

To judgment. >> reporter: the former coroner says there was no rush to judgment. he didnt remember the case, but reread the coroners report at "datelines" request and says, quote, hindsight is a wonderful thing, but at the time everything fit. there were no suspicions raised and no reason to drag our feet. nevertheless, after tonis death and mccormicks review, the douglas county coroner changed the manner of lynns death from accidental to undetermined. still, harold henthorn hadnt been charged w...

>> my heart tells me that my daughter is alive. >> and national, including "datelines" missing in america series. the cameras led us into thosing a uniteding days. >> its just that hole that we all in the family just feel. >> and bearing sight and witness is another daughter, morgan. >> i can probably count on one hand how many times ive seep my dad cry. and to see something like that makes your whole world fall apart. >> police quickly turn their attention to heathers new guy, the man who had b...

>> he was murdered. >> i held my silence for 15 years. >> inside the riveting story "datelines" covers from the start. >> theres a frozen body. its in the freezer in the garage. >> we have three different deaths. how this rerelated? >> im thinking she could be the mastermind of this. evil and death and greed -- its not a script. its not make-believe. >> how horrible can you be? may they burn in hell. ♪ what a pretty late summer afternoon it had been along the great lake. august 28th, 2003, a...

Says there was no rush to judgment. he didnt remember the case, but reread the coroners report at "datelines" request and says, quote, hindsight is a wonderful thing, but at the time everything fit. there were no suspicions raised and no reason to drag our feet. nevertheless, after tonis death and mccormicks review, the douglas county coroner changed the manner of lynns death from accidental to undetermined. still, harold henthorn hadnt been charged with anything not in tonis death or his first ...

And the only reason i picked him out of that crowd was i heard through the grapevine that his brothers car was used. >> what are you telling me this now for? what do you think will accomplish now? >> nothing. im just trying to come clean, i mean. >> reporter: now, that was a bombshell. livers own attorney had never been told by authorities that hed recanted his confession. so basically from the official story, his recantation simply disappeared? >> right. >> reporter: the cass county sheriffs de...

So basically from the official story, his recantation simply disappeared? >> right. >> reporter: the cass county sheriffs department declined "datelines" request for interviews or explanations of how this happened or, for that matter, anything else about the case, but in december, 2006, seven months after the murders, prosecution experts finally agreed, too, livers confessions were deemed unreliable. >> i went over to the jail and matt was in his cell and we told him, you know, its over. youre g...

Second tape withheld? and by whom? months and months and months after because he said those things the day after his confession. >> right. >> i dont know that nick is involved in this because we never -- i mean, you can check my phone records. we never talked on thursday or friday about this. and the only reason i picked him out of that crowd was i heard through the grapevine that his brothers car was used. >> what are you telling me this now for? what do you think will accomplish now? >> nothin...

Thomas was agreeing to being an accessory after the fact. >> thomas, do you make this plea freely and voluntarily? >> i do. >> if youd gone to trial against peggy thomas, do you think you would have won? >> uh -- >> if you say yes, my next question is why didnt you? >> my take on it was we had a 50/50 chance of guilty versus not guilty and so it was a rolf the dice. >> a few weeks later peggy thomas was sentenced to four weeks in prison. >> i would still love to see her come forward and say, loo...

All the facts would indicate that this was, i think, a rush to judgment. >> reporter: the former coroner says there was no rush to judgment he didnt remember the case, but reread the coroners report at "datelines" request and says, quote, hindsight is a wonderful thing, but at the time everything fit there were no suspicions raised and no reason to drag our feet nevertheless, after tonis death and mccormicks review, the douglas county coroner changed the manner of lynns death from accidental to ...