kofoed pleaded not guilty to all charges, defiantly told reporters he d rather go to prison than resign, even passed the polygraph and was cleared in an internal sheriff s department investigation. so you wake up one morning and they say you re a criminal. well, it kind of was like that, but it was more of a long process. and i didn t do it. i just didn t. and it doesn t make any sense. reporter: kofoed blamed the stain on accidental contamination. somehow, he said, blood from the victim, wayne stock, ended up on that filter paper probably out at the murder scene and somehow the kit containing that same filter paper was what he later used on the car. but kofoed did admit he broke the rules, failed to log the evidence properly, even misdated the report. i did make a mistake. i didn t follow procedures. and that bothers me. and there s no way around that. that was wrong because i m a boss, because i m supposed to set the example. reporter: it is a little
and anyway, fester, remember, said the main shooter, the guy that led them to the farm was a local named thomas, with whom fester had been communicating by phone before the murder. but detectives could find no evidence whatsoever against this thomas or anyone else. and meanwhile, jessica reid kept trying to persuade investigators that nobody else was there besides her and fester, of course. i am not lying! if i was lying, i would not still be going on about this. reporter: she d been saying that for months. i know what happened and no one will believe me. reporter: and though she was right about that, the detectives did not believe her. they still suspected livers and sampson of some involvement. why? remember way back at the beginning of our story, that speck of evidence that csi chief kofoed had found this a car connected to nick sampson and
detective jim rohr looked for evidence to refute or confirm the stories told by the team, stories they had witnessed but did not commit the gruesome murders of wayne and sharmon stock on an easter evening six weeks before in murdock, nebraska. rohr went to reid s place, a sort of flophouse routines he called it. what we were looking for is anything at all that would tie them to nebraska or any other location they were at during their crime sprees. oh, and he found it, all right. here hidden behind a picture frame was this cigarette box. and inside a shotgun shell, 12 gauge, the same gauges used in the murders. and there was more folded up in that little box. this letter apparently meant for greg fester. it said, quote, and this bullet, well, bunny, it s the only thing
reporter: then the lawyers went looking for evidence of the phone calls matt described in his confession, calls in which he and nick supposedly planned the murders and the records revealed there wasn t one call, not one between matt and nick in the days before the murder. that phone communication never took place. you know, it simply didn t occur. reporter: but couldn t they have used, you know, those kind of phones that you can buy that you can t trace? that s theoretically possible, but there s no evidence of that. reporter: add to that a ballistics test confirmed the gun found under nick s bed was not the murder weapon. the spot on nick s jeans thought to be blood wasn t human blood at all. and now the arrests of these teenagers from wisconsin, two people clearly present at the crime scene, but never mentioned at all in any of matt livers hours and hours of police interviews. all this led julie bear to head over to the jail to ask matt livers face-to-face about these alle
piece of what seemed to be evidence showed up. police missed it the morning after the murder. one sharp-eye d cop happened to notice it a couple days later. it was this gold ring on the kitchen floor. i thought, somebody took it o to wash their hands and fell down and forgot about it. at the time, could have belonged to the victim or anybody? right. one thing people should know about the stock house, nothing was ever out of place. one of the investigators picked up the ring and bagged it and tagged it as evidence. a size 10, a man s ring bearing a message. the inscription said, love always cori and ryan. who was cori and who was ryan? detectives asked the stock children and none recognized rings or the ring either. as lifers was confessing and he and sampson were put in jail,