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Not take holidays off. you need to have the real thing as you gather with your relatives and christmas. we are glad you are here. maggie tells us shes mading up to the green bay christmas day game. i hope the weather is not 10 below. andrew writes this, my son alex who got his degree in broadcast journalism. congrats on the job. my one concern on this. if you are watching and working on a 5:00 a.m. local show, will you not be watching "way too early." >> welcome to the business, get too alarms. ...

With physical evidence. >> p.j. two she was acquitted on all counts. >> actually had to check the verdict sheet to make sure that i had heard it right. >> laura rideout -- >> but what about the mother at the center of it all? laura rideout. >> the jury has convicted you of murder in the second degree. >> laura rideout, guilty of murder. >> not surprised at all. >> whats that emotion like? >> relief. and justification. >> laura and her son colin were both sentenced to 25 years to life behind bars...

LYONS — She was a dynamo on the stage and in the director’s chair, worked in films in Hollywood and abroad and found a way to make a county museum come alive. However, it was something else that folks who knew Larry Ann Evans will always remember about her, said her son, Alex Calvo: Her laugh. “You can pick my mother out of the crowd just because of her laugh,” he said. “It was that contagious and that unique.” Evans died Friday, Dec. 18 after a nearly two-year bat...

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Theyre gone. whats the next thing you s remember? >> so reading, kind of hanging around. i think the first time i kind of noticed that it was getting a little late, it had gotten dark and, you know, nobody should be kind of hiking or walking around when its dark. >> reporter: alex had no inkling of the tragedy unfolding at cottonwood creek. it started right after his dad took this picture of his mother, leslie. leslie and gracie posed here. you can see its a stunning setting. but just about an a...

Theyre just all over each other. >> and youre like, "ew." [ laughter ] >> reporter: these are the muellers three children -- amanda, the eldest, then ariel, and alex, the youngest and only boy. they were brought up in texas, near the town of san angelo, but for fun the family headed out to their second home in lake city, colorado. those photos of their parents were taken nearby. >> they both loved the cabin, and going up to colorado. >> it was so pretty. it was in a valley, and there were just -...

Investigation was able to develop. >> at what point did you finally, all of you, say weve got enough, lets go get him? >> i think its when we felt like we had tested the thing to death. we had absolutely everything we could put together to take to the jury. >> february 6, 2012, just over 3 1/2 years since leslie mueller died. on monday fred was at his office when a texas ranger showed up with an arrest warrant in hand. >> he looked at us almost in shock and he said i cant believe you people are ...

At the start of the trail. among them was hinsdale county sheriffs deputy justin casey. >> we had other officers responding, that we also had the e.m.s. personnel coming in ambulances, and we had fire personnel coming with the fire trucks. >> reporter: dispatch put a call in to the local sheriff, ron bruce. >> we had gotten a report of a drowning up on cottonwood creek. and they said theyd keep me advised. >> reporter: by then, a group of medical responders made their way up to the creek to help...

The defense argued for his release on bond and the judge granted it. >> i just -- i cant wait to be able to give him a hug and just talk to him whenever i want. >> reporter: now, one full year after losing his freedom, fred was going to get out of jail. his daughters and new wife wendee gathered to embrace him. son alex, who was traveling, called in for an update. >> were all at the jail right now just waiting for your dad. its alex. >> we hadnt given him a hug in a year. we havent been able to ...

Your fathers been arrested. >> did you say anything back to them when they told you? >> i was like why, and they said we cant tell you that, we just have some great proof. and i said it took you 4 years, what exactly are you doing? and they said we just cant tell you that. >> did you ever think for one second, well, there must be something, he must have done something for him to be arrested to go through this? >> no, we never doubted his story. we never thought he would have done anything wrong ...