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>> reporter: andy stock didnt realize it at the time but investigators were soon looking hard at him. after all, he was there, he had opportunity and he may have had motive. he might have had something to gain from his parents death. why? andy stock was the already designated heir to the stock hay company, which some people might consider a family fortune. investigators questioned andy, csi units were busily working the crime scene as well. >> it was a very brutal crime scene. it was one of the ...

Adrenaline rush. but i liked the adrenaline rush. >> reporter: thats a real shocker for you. you dont run into that in this little town too often. >> well, no. and you dont run into it with a young girl either. >> reporter: ballistics tests soon confirmed that the shell found in reids cigarette box matched spent shells found at the murder scene. the murder weapon, stolen from the same wisconsin farmhouse where reid and fester stole the red pickup truck. blood found on reids clothes and festers s...

So you wake up one morning and they say youre a criminal. >> well, it kind of was like that, but it was more of a long process. and i didnt do it. i just didnt. and it doesnt 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 rul...

The killer. no, greg fester said, it was some friend he communicated with via text message. a guy he called thomas. so a little confusing perhaps, but for the investigators from nebraska, it seemed to be starting to come together. what was their sense of things after that first day of questioning? >> i think sense of accomplishment mainly because we do have confessions from greg and jessica for the homicides. >> reporter: lets go out and have a beer time? >> well, its a reason to pretty much do ...

>> reporter: at sentencing the career law enforcement man stood up and again denied planting any evidence said the truth would eventually come out. >> i dont believe this is the last of this case for me. im going to continue on. thats nothing personal with you. >> reporter: but the judge, acknowledging he was moved by letters written by livers and sampson asking him to throw the book at kofoed, did just that. >> the defendant has not acknowledged any wrong doing. hes not appeared to be

>> reporter: yeah, well. >> i dont want to move. i love murdock. thats my home. >> reporter: but if it seems strange to you that an innocent man could remain so long under suspicion, imagine how bizarre it was about to become as the accused and the accuser play out a truly disturbing drama well call trading places. troubling ab sayings about one of the lead investigators. so, you wake up one morning and they say you are a criminal. and then there were two in ♪ protect your pets from fleas ...

A second interview the day after his confession. once hed had a chance to regain his equilibrium. >> the absolute truth is i was never on the scene. i dont know if nick is the actual person involved in this. ive been just making things up to satisfy you guys. >> reporter: how long was that second tape withheld? and by whom? >> a little over five months. >> months and months and months after because he said those things the day after his confession. >> right. >> i dont know that nick is involved ...

And the only reason i picked him out of that crowd was i heard through the grapevine that his brothers car was used. >> what are you telling me this now for? what do you think this is going to accomplish now? >> nothing. im just trying to come clean, i mean. >> reporter: now, that was a bombshell. livers own attorney had never been told by authorities that hed recanted his confession. so basically from the official story, his recantation simply disappeared? >> right. >> reporter: the cass county...

Examined by csi chief david kofoeds team. >> we had a pair of pants. it look like it had blood on it. we tested that with phenolphthalein and that tested positive. >> reporter: then there was more. remember that car seen by the newspaper carrier parked a mile from the farmhouse the night of the murders? detectives had found it, they believed. a 1997 ford contour owned by nick sampsons brother. and it had been cleaned and detailed actually at 5:30 easter monday morning just hours after it had app...

>> reporter: jessica reid is 21 -- 27 now. her demeanor, her presence, as she sat with us in 2010 could easily be that of a kindergarten teacher. instead, she knows she will die in prison and says she is haunted by what happened in that farmhouse. what was it like to watch those people die? >> hell. >> reporter: and when you see it in your head? >> it makes my heart drop. thats one thing in this world that i cant go back and fix. >> reporter: the truth about that night? here it is, said jessica....