i got that if a newspaper reporter. reporter: it didn t come from the prosecutor s office. no, it was being sealed. i met him at a bar and for the price of a budweiser i was able to read the affidavit of the arrest warrant. reporter: those affidavits slipped to attorneys by a reporter contained details culled from the hours and hours of police interviews with greg fester and jessica reid. greg blew a guy s head off. reporter: and told the story of the 12 gauge shotgun. the shells, the ring, the marijuana pipe and, most tellingly, that dna. irrefutably linking reid and fester to the crime scene. suddenly, it was all beginning to make sense to those public defenders. remember, they d been skeptical when their new clients professed innocence, but ever since then, they d been asking themselves one very simple question, where was the evidence? and in their six weeks of looking for it, they had found, well, none. after all, livers girlfriend, a woman with an impeccable
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 spotted near the murder scene? here s the stain right here on the filter paper that kofoed swiped under the dashboard of the car. a second search of the car, by the way. the first by an officer under kofoed turned up nothing. this was blood from the murder victim, wayne stock.
reid in jail, detectives set about finding physical evidence to back up their claims. and incredibly, once again, one little thing, not a ring this time, but a cigarette box was about to turn the whole business upside down all over again. what we re looking for is anything at all that would tie them to nebraska or any other location that they were at during their crime sprees. reporter: oh, and he found it all right. here, hidden behind a picture frame, was this cigarette box,
investigators now had a number of clues. that car, seen by the newspaper carrier. the flashlight with what appeared to be blood on it. the marijuana pipe. and detectives were probably looking for more than one killer. but a motive? who knew? not a thing was missing. wallets, purses, gun collections, even a safe hidden in the bedroom floor, all untouched. but all that evidence. and asking questions of those closest to the stocks would soon pay off because just a week later an arrest and a confession. and another shattering blow to the stock family. coming up stories surface of a long simmering feud between the beloved farming couple and the family s black seed. just knowing that, i had my own suspicions. smooth, easy strokes.