it s 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 greg fester. when it came to him, it seemed prosecutors were certain to seek the death penalty. wayne and sharmon stock aroused terrified from their sleep sanctity of their own bedroom easter sunday night and shot to death in cold blood. if ever a case warranted the ultimate punishment thought many nebraskans, then this surely was it. but to all the mystifying moves by police and prosecutors, add one more.
help. right now this is an unsolved homicide. whether it s somebody local or somebody from another town, we don t know at this time. reporter: who could have murdered wayne and sharmon stock? and why? as an entire community struggles to absorb the horror in their midst. the stock s children face another stunning shock. it was like, is this really happening? just a couple of hours after wayne and sharmon stock s son discovered their bodies in their rural nebraska farmhouse on easter monday 2006, the word got around. law enforcement swarmed the scene, neighbors expressed shock in that understated midwestern way. they re just typical nebraska farm background people, and you wouldn t expect it. reporter: andy stock, as you can see in these pictures taken on that very day, stood next to his pickup in utter shock waiting for his brother and sister to arrive. and he struggled to process it all. as his father s words echoed in his mind. i ll never forget july of 05.
questioned the couple s large extended family, another relative s name came up quite often actually. matt livers. he was wayne and sharmon s nephew, 28 years old. he attended the easter dinner the afternoon leading up to the murder. but he wasn t 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. family members told police matt was slow, different. he had no criminal record, but there was, they said, an ongoing problem between matt and the stocks. they described disagreements, sometimes heated. they said sharmon had a dislike for matt. the stock s oldest son steve i think in my head i went to it a little bit just knowing that they hadn t gotten along real well. i had my own suspicion. reporter: just two days after the murders, detectives visited
dad and i were working together. we were standing there, and he looked at me and he said, son, he said, when it s my day to go, hold your head high, keep living life. i ll 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 the morning, which made him, bizarre though it sounds, a potential suspect. before i even saw steve and tami, they had put me in a car and took me to another town and questioned me in a room. reporter: trying to establish whether or not you were involved. yeah. did gunshot residue tests. like is this really happening? reporter: andy stock didn t
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