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>> you got a gun. >> right. >> and you took that gun back to your uncle and aunt sharmons house, right? right or wrong? come on now. >> right. >> reporter: now that the cat was out of the bag, livers began filling in more of the blanks. how the murder went down, for example. >> you put the gun to her face and blew her away. >> okay. >> and then as i headed out, i just stuck it to him and blew him away. >> reporter: then a bonus. remember how that blood spatter indicated a second killer was invol...

Nothing would be the same after this. what did you do when you found out? >> i never made it past the landing. my cell phone was out in my pickup, and just turned around, went to call for help. >> reporter: the ambulance was there in 12 minutes. their first lawman in 20. andy stood outside in shock, calling family without even knowing what happened or what to say. >> andys wife and i work together. she answered the phone call. and she didnt even recognize andys voice. and theyve been together fo...

Home all night with her, 30 miles away in lincoln the night of the murders. the same with nick sampsons girlfriend who swore he never left their house that night. and she passed the polygraph. >> if she would have thought that nick had done this, she would have thrown him under the bus in a heartbeat. theres just no doubt about that. >> reporter: then the lawyers went looking for evidence of the phone calls matt described in his confession, calls in which he and nick supposedly planned the murde...

Besides, as detectives questioned the couples large extended family, another relatives name came up quite often actually. matt livers. he was wayne and sharmons nephew, 28 years old. he attended the easter dinner the afternoon leading up to the murder. but he wasnt there by virtue of being a family favorite. in fact, livers was considered a black sheep. he bounced from job to job. never finding his niche. matt was slow, different. he had no criminal record, but there was, they said, an ongoing p...

Orte rep why w he dot to you if it wasnt true? >> to make himself look bett. just using me as a scapegoat. >> reporter: nick sampson was now off the hook. but what about matt? true, hed confessed to the murders. but was there more to the story? a tape surfaces of what he said to investigators the very next day. >> ive been just making things up to satisfy you guys. ill never find a safe used car. start at the new carfax.com sh me minivans with no reported accidents. boom. love it. [struggles] ...

In? why would i make mistakes that point the finger at me. >> reporter: a federal jury in omaha heard the case and took just a few hours to acquit kofoed of all counts. but the state of nebraska wasnt satisfied. appointed a special prosecutor and charged kofoed with evidence tampering. and this time, after a week-long trial before a cass county judge on what one headline called "a dark day for law enforcement" kofoed was found guilty. >> you understand what you were convicted of? >> yes, your ho...

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. >> reporter: shed 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 involv...

Of the moment, detectives had no idea, not a clue, that they had just jumped down an alice in wonderland rabbit hole. the children of wayne and sharmon stock were still reeling from their grief as they bury their parents less than a week after perhaps the most horrific murder their little town had ever seen. and then to grief add shock. late one evening son andy answered his phone and heard the news from one of the detectives. andy called his sister. >> about 12:30 at night. he says, tam, i ne...

Imagine the television show "csi." >> right. >> reporter: theres a light, oh, theres a -- its just too easy. but there it was. >> it was there. i think one thing i knew pretty much right at the beginning was i could visibly see blood on the outside of the flashlight. we knew that had to be involved. >> reporter: but then a real breakthrough. a newspaper carrier called in to report that he and his girlfriend saw something. theyd been driving down this country road middle of the night about a mile...

>> he kind of ran into the room and he -- i heard this scream and he shot again. we all run out of the house. >> reporter: but then, surprise, surprise, fester insisted the man who committed the murders was not nick sampson. wasnt even matt livers, who had already confessed that he was