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Teens from miwisconsin who admitted being there the night they were killed. >> the reason i ask you is the two people upstairs were shot to death. >> youre saying me and greg did it. >> im telling you is youre in this house. did you not tell -- >> oh, my god. i never killed anybody. i really didnt. >> this is why were here. >> i took money. thats all i did. i call i did was take money. i dont want to go to jail for murder because i didnt do it. >> then who did? remember, matt had already confess...

Wisconsin of two teenagers in connection with the shotgun murders sowed seeds of doubt in the official version of events. that version had this an open and shut case against two local men, confessed killer matt and at the accomplice. now, these latest arrests announced so quietly had many wondering what was the connection among these four alleged killers. >> i called a newspaper reporter. i said you wont believe this but they arrested two other people. >> samsons defense attorney and the other a...

And he -- i heard a scream. he shot again. we all run over the house. >> then, surprise, surprise, fester insisted the man who committed the murders was not nick samson. it wasnt even matt who already confessed he was the killer. no. 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 questioni...

To drop charges against mr. some son, and he, sitting in jail had become suicidal. >> nick was in really bad shape. so at that point im trying to do mesh psychiatric, holding him together. >> the summer dragged by followed by a depressing september. and then, first week of october, the county attorney nathan cox met the press. murder case against nick samson was dropped. sort of. >> since theres no statute of limitations on murder, the state reserves the right to re-file the charges in the futur...

Victim, wayne stock. how would it get there? it was the fbi that started asking that question. not of livers or samson, it was aimed at the local investigators, in fact at the chief himself. after months of digging, the fbi concluded he must have planted that swipe of blood himself, phony evidence. that nailed out a shaky case. it was a bombshell. division commander of the csi unit was indicted on four federal charges including falsifying records and violating livers and samsons civil rights. he...

At a loss of why my own cousin could do this to me. >> why would he do it to you if it wasnt true? >> to make himself look better. just using me as a scapegoat. >> nick samson was now off the hook, but what about matt? coming up, true, he confessed to the murders. but was there more to the story? a tape surfaces of what he said to investigators. >> ive been just making things up to satisfy you guys. >> when dateline continues. ime

>> but imagine being nick samson. on that amazing day. >> it was cloud 9. incredible feeling. >> after five months in iljail,e was free. >> it was incredible. im finally out. >> but nick samson, even free, was not carefree. not by any means. some things could never be the same again. >> i was constantly looking over my shoulder. seeing who was behind me. you know? . >> so there was a general itch in your back fear someone was going to come after uf. >> come after me, my family, revenge. >> becau...

Da had let matt and nick go, dropped the charges, which to a suspicious county and stock family was both upsetting and bu puzzling. after all, hadnt the head of csi found a blood sample that tied them to the crime? >> it must have seemed to be they were letting two murders back on the street. >> it did seem they were letting them go, but, guess nobody knew any different. >> in fact, some of the investigators remained convinced samson or livers or both had to be involved somehow. they didnt buy t...

Watch what happens when they ask them 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. >> hes going to stand up. >> stand up and be a man. okay? >> were those detectives even paying attention to the sort of man they were talking to? >> maybe not. just after nick samsons release julie received a dvd shes never received before even though she asked months earlier, was was her right for all the ...

Thomas or anyone else. and meanwhile, jessica reed kept trying to persuade investigators that nobody else was there besides her and fess ter, of course. >> i am not lying. if i was lying i would not still be going on about this. >> shed been saying that for months. >> i know what happened, and no one will believe me. >> and though she was right about that. detectives did not believe her. they still suspected livers and samson of some involvement. why? remember way back in the beginning of our st...