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There was one tiny clue that didnt fit at all. >> the inscription said, "love always, cori and ryan." so they wanted to find out whos ryan? whos cori? >> the trail would lead hundreds of miles away to a chilling piece of evidence. that mustve been a shocker to have it cross your desk? >> pretty much sends a chill down your spine. >> "i killed someone. he was older. i loved it." >> pretty scary. >> a sinister story, but not even it revealed the whole, twisted truth. >> i know what happened. no on...

Victim was apparently crawling away and he was shot in the head. clearly an execution. >> reporter: close up. >> close up. and the female victim was along the side of the bed holding a phone in her hand, and she had been shot in the eye at close range. >> reporter: investigators found out pretty quickly how the stocks killer or killers who entered the house. a screen had been lifted, a window appeared to have been forced open leading into the laundry room. from there it appeared the killers rout...

>> a couple kids on a joy ride. somebody taking it that needed to get back down south for whatever reason. >> reporter: it wasnt long before they fingered the suspected thieves. there were two of them. the guy was greg fester, age 19, with a history of drug use, suicide attempts, anger issues. fester was on probation for weapons and disorderly conduct convictions. >> greg was a little odd. he seemed a bit slow. just didnt seem to grasp things quite as well as a typical person. >> reporter: feste...

>> ill never forget july of 05. dad and i were working together. we were standing there, and he looked at me and he said, son, he said, when its my day to go, hold your head high, keep living life. ill never forget that. >> reporter: but it was all happening so fast. wayne and sharmon stock had been gunned down in the safety of their own home, the sanctity of their own bedroom. why would anyone want them dead? and who? andy was the last to see his parents alive, the one who found their bodies in...

>> thats theoretically possible, but theres no evidence of that. >> reporter: add to that a ballistics test confirmed the gun found under nicks bed was not the murder weapon. the spot on nicks jeans thought to be blood wasnt human blood at all. and now the arrests of these teenagers from wisconsin, two people clearly present at the crime scene, but never mentioned at all in any of matt livers hours and hours of police interviews. all this led julie bear to head over to the jail to ask matt liver...

Wayne owned a thousand acres of land along with rental property. sharmon was locally famous for her specialty cakes, wedding and otherwise. they were church youth leaders. keith served on the school board. >> busy people. >> yeah. >> very, very. they touched the lives of so many people. >> reporter: she was a teachers aide for 17 years at a rural school. taught lessons also that didnt end in class. >> one thing i always heard from mom was take responsibility for your actions, be responsible. >> ...

The county jail in plattsmouth, nebraska, that is. only those two teenagers from wisconsin remained behind bars, charged with murdering wayne and sharmon stock. the d.a. had let matt livers and nick sampson go. dropped the charges. 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 ...

My dna anywhere near that house because ive never been in that house. never, ever, once in my entire life have i ever been in that house. >> reporter: he agreed to take a polygraph. but again it wasnt quite what the accused hoped for. the polygrapher showed that sampson was deceptive when he denied being at the home when wayne was shot. and investigators seized on that to ratchet up the pressure. >> you were at the house when he was killed. >> no, i was not. >> your bodys telling me otherwise. w...

>> i got that from a newspaper reporter. >> reporter: it didnt come from the prosecutors office. >> no, it was being sealed. i met him at a bar and for the price of a budweiser i was able to read the affidavit of the teenagers reed and fester. >> reporter: those affidavits slipped to attorneys by a reporter contained details culled from the hours and hours of police interviews with greg fester and jessica reid. >> greg blew a guys head off. >> reporter: and told the story of the 12 gauge shotgun...

Nobodys going to confess to something they didnt do. especially something so horrible as the murder of your own relatives. >> well, they changed their tactics on me. my rear end was going to be in the frying pan. they were going to be going for the death penalty. >> reporter: youre scared. >> yeah. tremendously. i thought if i tell them what they wanted to hear, that i could get to go home. >> reporter: how did nicks name come up? >> they asked me who else was involved and i started just throwin...