Gregory Fester News Today

They shot two people during a farmhouse robbery. Charges against two other suspects are dropped.

>> our dispatch had received confirmation from a parish down in louisiana that they had the stolen truck. >> narrator: stolen in wisconsin and abandoned way down in louisiana. thats a long way to go. what did you think? >> a couple kids on a joy ride. somebody taking it that needed to get back down south for whatever reason. >> narrator: it wasnt long before they fingered the suspected thieves. >> there were several bikes vehicles taken over a short period of time and the police department devel...

Ridiculous trip across the country. as for the murder in the farmhouse, that was the guy they met outside bulldogs bar, he said, who squeezed into their stolen pickup truck, led them to the stocks farmhouse, went upstairs and just started shooting. >> he kind of ran into the room and he -- i heard this scream and he shot again. we all run out of the house. >> narrator: but then, surprise, surprise, fester insisted the man who committed the murders was not nick sampson. wasnt even matt livers, wh...

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. >> narrator: shed been saying that for months. >> i know wh...

And then there were two in the county jail in plattsmouth, nebraska, that is. only those two teenagers remained behind bars, charged with murdering wayne and sharmon stock. the d.a. had let matt livers and nick sampson go. which to a suspicious family was puzzling. after all, hadnt the head of csi, david kofoed, found a blood sample that tied them to the crime? it must have seemed to you as if they were letting two murderers back on the street. >> that was the way i felt. >> it did seem like the...

>> greg was a little odd. he seemed a bit slow. just didnt seem to grasp things quite as well as a typical person. >> narrator: festers alleged accomplice was a 17-year-old named jessica reid. a former honor roll student and cheerleader turned troubled teen after a divorce. shed become mixed up with drugs and, by extension, fester. not exactly master criminals, were they? >> no. in speaking with them, once these two individuals did make their way back to wisconsin, theyre interviewed and they ge...

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