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A judge ruled the county attorney actually missed the deadline to seek the death penalty. first degree murder for greg fester was off the table. before long, a new deal was reached. both fester and reid pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree. and in march 2007, not yet a year since the killing, they entered a courtroom. >> reporter: you went to the sentencing. >> i did. the first time i saw them. i didnt think i could feel so much anger and sorrow and sadness. >> i remember thinking i did...

Likely shipped years ago. and you said what? you got to be kidding? >> i said thats like looking for a needle in a haystack. however, she mentioned homicide. >> reporter: and thats when mary martino heard about the ring and the double homicide and the fact that nobody else at the company seemed able to help. >> she said she had made several attempts and no one was willing to assist her. >> reporter: so mary martino said shed see what she could do. certainly her company would have taken the order...

In jail, police descended on murdock to arrest nick sampson. he was a cook at bulldogs bar in murdock. he was a guy by his own admission liked to drive too fast, had a problem with marijuana as a teenager, had done two separate stints in boys homes now he had been printed and processed, then like livers, questioned on videotape. >> i guess ill just ask you flat out. why do you think youre here? >> i think they think that im involved with the murders. >> reporter: but unlike his co-defendant. >> ...

He said maybe you can find some transfer evidence there. take another look at it. i said, well, maybe we missed it. >> reporter: so they examined the car again. and this time, lo and behold, a stain was found just below the steering wheel on the dashboard. a stain found by csi chief kofoed himself. >> i just took it along that edge and wiped it because i figured that way i wouldnt miss anything. and it reacted. >> reporter: so you got a hit, though? >> i got a presumptive positive, yes. >> repor...

Put their lives back in place. >> they both wanted us to strive for so much more and said, you know, you can always do better. >> reporter: and so they may not have noticed so much the riddle that sprouted along with the corn. two towns, murdock, nebraska, beaver dam, wisconsin, more than 500 miles apart. now united, undeniably, by a single band of gold. that ring sold in a beaver dam walmart and found days after the murder in the kitchen of the stock farmhouse. how did it get there? matt livers...

>> put the gun to her face and blew her away. >> reporter: and hed named an accomplice. 22-year-old nick sampson. a cousin of matts on another branch of the family tree. >> my husband had given me the phone. i was sitting up in bed. and i said, andy, should i be shaking? he said, thats normal, the shock. >> reporter: but matt livers had been with them at easter dinner just a few hours before. now he said that he and nick had returned to kill his aunt and uncle. >> our first reaction was grandma ...

Caution. >> right now this is an unsolved homicide. whether its somebody local or somebody from another town, we dont know at this time. >> reporter: who could have murdered wayne and sharmon stock? and why? just a couple of hours after wayne and sharmon stocks son discovered their bodies in their rural nebraska farmhouse on easter monday 2006, the word got around. law enforcement swarmed the scene, neighbors expressed shock in that understated midwestern way. >> theyre just typical nebraska f...

>> reporter: and one moment stood out defense lawyers say when detectives should have realized just how little matt livers understood what was happening to him. here it is. watch what happens when they ask him to be a man and take responsibility. >> you consider yourself a man? stand up. >> he takes them very literally and starts to rise up out of his chair. >> reporter: hes going to stand up. >> hes going to stand up. >> no, be a man, okay? >> reporter: were those detectives even paying attenti...

Matt livers former employer, asked about his personality, rumors that he had a temper. they put a watch on him and went through his garbage, too. this was in lincoln, about 30 miles from the murder scene. then eight days after the bodies were discovered they asked matt livers to come in and answer some questions. >> youre free to leave at any time. >> im here to cooperate with you gentleman. >> reporter: he was unerringly courteous, deferential to the two detectives questioning him. said hed nev...

>> reporter: there, shed said it. it was greg fester who killed the stocks. but why would she then write that note? >> greg killed someone. he was older. i loved it. i wish i could do it all the time. if greg doesnt watch it, im going to leave one day and go do it myself. youre in a lot of trouble, young lady. >> i didnt kill this guy, though! i didnt have a gun! how am i supposed to kill somebody without a gun? i watched greg do it. i didnt kill anybody. im not kidding. i did not kill anybody. ...