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an unspeakable site. >> when i started up the stairs, there was blood on the walls. >> it was a very brutal crime scene. it was one of the worst i have ever seen. >> a loving couple dead. was the killer one of the family? >> they said, they arrested matt. and i said, who? and he said, our cousin mapped. >> -- and blew it away -- >> but this case was not solved. one tiny clue did not fit at all. >> the inscription said that love always -- who is blind and who is -- the >> trail would le...

Time. >> well, im here to cooperate with you, gentleman. >> he was unerringly courteous and dif rengsal to the police officers questioning him. he said he had never been interviewed by police before. >> i dont know. yon. i really dont know why. how, when, where and why, would somebody do this to such good people. very christian people? very loving and likable people? >> livers told them after the big family dinner with the stocks he drove home the half thundershower lincoln, where he stayed all ...

To take a polygraph but again it wasnt what he hoped for. it showed sampson was deceptive when he denied being at wayne stocks home when wayne was shot. investigators seized on that to ratchet up the pressure. >> you were at the house when he was killed. >> no, i was not. >> your body is telling me otherwise. we need to get down to that. whats going on. >> i honest to do was not at the house when they were killed. >> investigators did not believe nick sampson. after all, matt livers says sampson...

Welcome to "dateline extra." im craig melvin. it was an easter sunday tradition and this holiday was no different. they gathered their children and grandchildren in for a big family celebration. later that night, gunshots turned their nebraska farmhouse into a house of horrors. wayne and sharman were dead. had the killer been sitting around the holiday table hours earlier or did police need to widen their search? heres keith morrison. >> it was late, past midnight when the farmhouse loomed up in...

But there was one person who told as she knew, and she agreed to share the bone-chilling details. heres keith morrison with the final chapter of our story. its a virtual given in legal circles when it comes to cutting a deal for a lighter prison sentence, the first criminal to the court house wins. in cass county, nebraska, the first to the courthouse was accused killer jessica reid. jessica agreed to plead guilty to second degree murder charges in exchange for testimony against her accomplice...

Charmin stock found something had just happened at their farmhouse. they did not assume the worst. even when they tried to call back, their brother, andy, who was on scene and now wasnt answering. >> around 11:00, 11:30, both kass and i were like, something is really wrong. the minister called and said, you need to come home. i said, im not going anywhere until you tell me whats wrong. he said, your mom and dad have been killed. i think i did start screaming. and we headed towards the farm, to b...

For his brother and sister to arrive. he struggled to process it all as his fathers words echoed in his mind. >> ill never forget july of 05, dad and i were working together, 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. >> it was all happening so fast. wayne and charmin stock had been gunned down in the safety of their own home, sanctity of their own bedroom. why would anyone want them dead...

Welcome back. a gold ring found at the wayne and sharmon stock double murder scene led investigators to two wisconsin teenagers, jessica reid and greg fester. why would they have been at the scene of a crime committed hundreds of miles away in nebraska? remember, police had already arrested two men for the killings. but they needed to know, could reid and fester have been involved? with more of our story, here is keith morris. spring arrived. the stock farm turned from brown to green. and wayn...

Mom always made every individual easter basket special to that child. >> they were like that, were wayne and sharman stalk. generous steady always there for their children. steve and tammy and andy. >> they were loving parents. >> i dont think they ever missed a game of any of ours. dad would always stop farming to be at a game, similar to mom. >> wayne was a businessman farmer, ran the stockade company and a very successful business it was. wayne owned a thousand acres of land and rental proper...

Ane a nearby town an hour away. he was called in to help them. >> what really bothers me, the two people were sleeping in bed and the male shot in the head and crawling way and the female victim holding the phone in her hand and shot in the eye at close range. >> investigators found out quickly how the stocks killers entered the house. a screen had been lifted, window forced open leading into the laundry room. from there it appeared the killers route might have gone past the easter basket charmi...