out of control. reporter: but the detective had no idea just how out of control these two had been. or where their jaunts in the stolen truck had taken them. and that, a few weeks later, is where the ring came in. that s when roarer got a call from nebraska, heard how that ring turned up at the scene of a double murder, heard how they tracked it back to the walmart in beaver dam and then to cori and ryan and the stolen truck. that must have been a shocker to get that information, to have it cross your desk. a huge shocker. that pretty much sends a chill down your spine. reporter: what was going on? how were these two teenagers, reid and fester, tied to the murders of wayne and sharmon stock? or were they at all? an interrogation of one of the teens provides a chilling first glimpse of what may have happened inside that farmhouse. and so i freaked out and left because obviously, that guy is up there killing somebody.
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, hadn t 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 like they were just letting them go, but i guess nobody knew any different. reporter: in fact, some of the investigators remained convinced sampson or livers or both had to be involved somehow. they didn t buy the notion that two drug-addled teenagers just happened to stumble on the place by pure chance in the dark. and anyway, fester, remember, said the main shooter, the guy that led them to the farm was a local named thomas, with whom fester had been communicating by phone before the murder.
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 had 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 killer s route might have gone past the now empty easter basket sharmon had made, through the well kept kitchen, then up the stairs to where the stocks lay sleeping. four 12-gauge shotgun shells leaving a trail to the bodies. wayne tried to get up but was shot in the knee. it left a huge powder burn on the bed. then wayne was shot in the head. sharmon killed, too, as she tried to call 911. then it became apparent, it wasn t just one killer, but at least two. when we did the blood pattern analysis, we saw a void area at
nick sampson struggled with the bitterness the long jail-bound nightmare had planted in his soul while the children of wane and sharmon stock tried to make sense of the release of the man they had been told had killed their parents. it s a difficult situation. none of us are attorneys. none of us are in law enforcement. and you re just sitting there trying to take it all in, trying to figure out, okay, how does this work? why does this happen? reporter: hadn t their cousin matt livers confessed? at least he was still in custody. as were those two teens from wisconsin. so it wasn t as if the whole case was falling apart. at least not yet. but if anyone did not feel confused in the october chill, it was defense attorneys bear and soucie, who were as sure as the summer day that both nick
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