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will never go away. im never going to have my son back. i dont get to go to his high school graduation. or see him go to college. i had no idea what had happened! >> it was like a meteor hitting. >> potsdam rescue, need an ambulance. >> a 12-year-old kid. loved to ride his scooter everywhere. lost his life at the hands of a killer. >> hes a soccer coach! >> great person on and off the field, a great role model. >> there is absolutely nothing connecting him to this case. >> they dont ha...

Her saying that this happened. >> investigators started knocking on doors all over potsdam to get the lowdown on nick. tandys side didnt pull any punches. attorney for the potsdam p.d., tom mortati -- >> family, friends, relatives. they all immediately thought, well, theres only one person that we can think of that might do something to garrett, and that was nick hillary. >> that he has reason to have a grudge against garrett, what, for breaking up this relationship? >> essentially, yeah. >> sti...

Tandy at the hospital, and they even sat next to her during her interview at the potsdam p.d. the next morning. john jones is to tandys left, holding her hand. casey collins was quickly eliminated as a suspect, because he had a solid alibi that placed him nowhere near garretts apartment at 5:00 p.m. on october 24th. but john jones, the local sheriffs deputy, got a deeper look. >> so its early hours, but something might be going on with john jones. you just dont know what it is, huh? >> potential...

No reason to think he was a suspect that night, or the next morning, when police asked him to come down to the potsdam pd and help their investigation. for what purpose? >> to see if i could identify a list of garretts friends. >> are any of the kids in his grade monsters compared to him? or no? >> but then the conversation veered away from the list and kids. >> i mean youre here to help me with something im clueless about. >> so im clueless about it as well. >> nick seemed surprised by the cops...

>> you could hear running or roughhousing sometimes, or something rolling down the hallway like a skateboard. >> but that afternoon, as sean and marissa were watching the drama "dexter" on tv, the sounds coming from next door were different, scary different. >> i heard a loud crash, and after that it was silence for a few seconds, and then in a low voice i heard what sounded like moaning, "help, " "ow, " or "no." >> at that moment i didnt think it was two little boys roughhousing anymore. it fel...

I had the feeling that there was somebody on the other side of that door. >> she called potsdam pd. >> i live in 3a, and they live across the hall. it just made me a little nervous that i thought i heard yelling and then i knocked to see if theyre okay and then it was silent. im sorry if its not anything. it was a weird situation that it makes me uncomfortable. >> okay. ill have somebody check on it. >> a patrol officer arrived at the second-floor apartment around 5:15 pm. no one answered his kn...

>> absolutely not. >> wasnt possible? >> no. >> for tandy, it always was nick, and only nick, in the frame for the crime. police would continue investigating, but by day two pressure seemed to be mounting for a quick resolution. >> even the next morning, the chief of police there in potsdam indicated to another investigator that they had a pretty hot suspect, and that they were lining up whatever evidence they could to try to make an arrest. >> that conversation was recorded by the potsdam p.d.,...

John jones, the sheriffs deputy. but no one notified nick hillary. turns out, he and tandy had split up the month before and he was no longer in her loop. so lieutenant mark murray of the potsdam pd called nick. >> mr. hillary speaking. >> its mark murray of the potsdam police department. we had an incident occur this evening and wed like to speak with you in regards to it. >> reporter: minutes later, lt. murray and two other investigators were at nicks door, a courtesy notification, they said. ...

Jones as a suspect. and even though tandy had had a bad break-up with jones, she told police garrett and jones were very close. >> what about john jones? >> absolutely not. >> wasnt possible? >> no. >> reporter: for tandy, it always was nick, and only nick, in the frame for the crime. police would continue investigating, but by day two pressure seemed to be mounting for a quick resolution. >> even the next morning, the chief of police there in potsdam indicated to another investigator that they ...

Nicks scary transformation. >> i was angry. so i told him that. that made me want my key back. i didnt want him to have a key anymore. >> when you give a girlfriend a key back, thats really the end of it. thats -- >> right. >> reporter: over and out. it was september. garrett had one month to live. the unwelcome drop-in, as well as tandys other stories about nick made police suspicious. but what to make of her account? >> she tells a story about looking up from her bed in the middle of the night...