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Premiere, pat admits he never did check out the alibi. >> were you able to verify any of his so-called alibis? >> well, the last_well, the last alibi, i did not. at that point it just seemed like id be chasing another one of his lies anyway. >> reporter: you set up a high tech sting operation -- >> yes, i did. >> in this hotel room. >> yes. >> because you wanted to trap him and because you wanted to get him to confess to you that he had killed his sister. and you were terribly upset when he didn...

At that point it just seemed like id be chasing another one of his lies anyway. >> reporter: you set up a high tech sting operation -- >> yes, i did. >> in this hotel room. >> yes. >> because you wanted to trap him and because you wanted to get him to confess to you that he had killed his sister. and you were terribly upset when he didnt confess to it. when he said, no youve got it all wrong. youve got it all wrong. >> i was disappointed that we didnt get to the bottom of the matter. >> reporter...

Kenny boone is sheriff of florence county. >> i mean i really thought that we was going to go straight to, you know, maybe a boyfriend or an acquaintance. this, he was convinced, would not be so hard to solve. of course, things dont always work out the way wed like them to. and that movie idea? itll soon be time for that part of the story. there would be two movies, remember, twin parades of hope and folly. but first suspicion falls as it often will on an attentive young male. >> clingy, protect...

>> and for my closure, as strange as this may sound, i didnt want him to be a bad guy. this is something that happened that wasnt premeditated because in my mind thats the only way i could forgive him. >> why wouldnt you want to hate and seek out and see justice done to this person? >> because i got to live with myself every day. >> and then a decision that would come back to haunt him. tom wrote himself into his screenplay. since he was writing fiction, he says, he wanted to make a change. he d...

>> reporter: but the fact is, tom morgan and pat moug may both have missed the real story. murder on a november morning, as told by sheriff kenny boone. >> one of the suspects that we had was right here. >> in that one right there? >> right. toms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflamm...

She would have fought back if it was someone who came to her trailer that she did not know. she would have fought back. >> and their suspicions grew. one of the weirdest things happened the day after the incident in the trailer park. this boy, chris, and one of his fraternity brothers came over to the morgan house. and out of the blue, unsolicited offered a bizarre theory as to how jennifer may have been killed before the fire got to her. >> that what probably happened was a lamp fell over and p...

>> i hope you enjoy the film. give us a minute for our high-tech lighting system to turn off. thank you. >> and finally here it was. 11 years after her death, jennifers story flickered to life on the screen. >> im ethan, by the way. >> im tiger woods. >> you are definitely not tiger woods. >> im jennifer. >> in the audience, her parents and older sister. the story was based on fact but tom had made some significant changes to real events and added lots of speculation, and then the director took ...

>> take six. >> it was the fall of 2004. it happened on makeshift sound stages around charlotte, north carolina. >> from what i see, the production looks great. >> the false start with the filmmaking cop from michigan was forgotten now. tom morgan watched a local production team piece together his story, toms fictional imagining of the murder of his little sister, jennifer. part art, part desperate effort to prod the police into reviving the investigation. >> cut. >> it was a shoestring budget. ...

A gallon of gas is $3.22, that is 20 cents higher than last year. we will send you back to "scenes from a murder." more news for you in an hour. >> reporter: so what about that substance? for pat it was crucial. it was the only evidence he offered to imply an incestuous relationship between tom and jennifer. but did it even exist? pat moug says he got the story from florence county sheriff kenny boone, who said he learned about it from the forensic pathologist. but she told us simply this. as fa...

Didnt get to the bottom of the matter. >> reporter: but remember one of pats insinuations went beyond all the others. and that was this. based on nothing more than his own analysis of a fictionalized story, pat surmised in his very public film that jennifers father and brother helped tom get away with her murder. >> if i step on somebodys toes so be it? >> if you ruin their reputation, so be it? >> well, theres a lot of people in prison whose reputations i ruined and i dont care. >> yeah, but if...