But this case wasnt closed. There was one tiny clue that didnt fit at all. The inscription said, love always, cori and ryan. Whos ryan . Whos cori . Said thats like looking for a needle in a haystack. The trail would lead hundreds of miles away to a chilling piece of evidence. That mustve been a shocker to have it cross your desk . Pretty much sends a chill down your spine. I killed someone. He was older. I loved it. Pretty scary. A sinister story, but not even it revealed the whole, twisted truth. I know what happened. No one will believe me. Its like, is this really happening . I didnt think i could feel so much anger. Reporter it was late, past midnight, when the farmhouse loomed up in their headlights. No sign of life. Not to them, anyway. He hit the brakes. This was the place. They grabbed their weapons, headed for the house. A window unlocked. Pay dirt. The prairie takes on a sweet, rolling pitch as it tucks into a nebraska corner an hour south of omaha. Here the rich black soil has grown solid and faithful american. A tiny remnant who have planted themselves in and around a place called murdock, the sort of place where heads turn when a and a familys name is carved on a local stone. It was Easter Sunday, 2006. A big farm yard and like every year, an Easter Egg Hunt. Grandma and papas yard. Reporter or mom and dad to tami who brought her own son, like always. They found their easter eggs. They found their Easter Baskets. Mom always made every individual Easter Basket special to that reporter they were like that about squain sharmon stock. Generous, steady, always there for their children. The eldest steve and daughter tami, the youngest andy. They were loving parents. I dont think they ever missed a game of any of ours. Dad would stop farming just to be at a game. Same way with mom. Reporter wayne stock was a businessman farmer. Wayne owned a thousand acres of land along with rental property. Sharmon was locally famous for her specialty cakes, wedding and otherwise. They were church youth leaders. Hed served on the school board. Busy people. Yeah. Very, very. They touched the lives of so many people. Reporter she was a teachers aide for 17 years at a rural school. Taught lessons also that didnt end in class. One thing i alwayar mom was take responsibility for your actions, be responsible. She would praise you and just keep pushing you to do better. She always wanted us to be better people. Reporter and then came that Easter Sunday, 2006. Church services, a big family dinner, that Easter Egg Hunt for the grandkids. Their last day on this earth. Cant forget that one day. My kids remember it. Days go, that wouldnt be a bad one. No, it wasnt. Reporter andy had missed the easter party. Spent the day with his future inlaws but left his young puppy with his parents. Called mom and dad on my way home. And said im going to come get the dog. They said, oh, no, he can just stay here. Hell be fine. You know, he sleeps on the porch. And well watch him till monday morning. Reporter would history have been different had he listened to his parents . Hard to know, of course. They met me on the deck at the back of the house. And we talked about easter and what they did, and they each gave me a hug and i went home. Reporter you remember that moment, it makes you feel pretty emotional, doesnt it . Yeah. Yeah. Reporter next morning, andy, who was being groomed to run stock hay himself some day, drove the half mile from his place to his parents farm, ready to go to work. Shop. And dads pickup was there, which i thought was a little bit strange. So i thought, well, ill see if he took moms car somewhere and looked in the garage and her car was there. Picked up the phone in the house. There was no dial tone. Thats when my heart kind of sunk that for some reason was a little bit of a trigger in my mind. Reporter something was wrong. Something was wrong. I thought i better go upstairs. As i sta u walls and, you know, i knew it was bad. Reporter its got to be surreal a moment like that. Does your mind even register . No. I think the good lord protects us. Reporter yeah. Till i rounded the corner, and saw dad laying there on the floor. And it was a horrible thing. Reporter it was perhaps the central moment in his life so far. This. What did you do when you found them . I never made it past the landing. My cell phone was out in my pickup, and just turned around, went to call for help. Reporter the ambulance was there in 12 minutes. Their first lawman in 20. Andy stood outside in shock, calling family without even knowing what happened or what to say. Andys wind together. She answered the phone call. And she didnt even recognize andys voice. And theyve been together for nine years. Reporter your own wife. She came in the back and said, tam, somethings wrong. Andy just called and said come quick. Dads laying in a pool of blood. Reporter but like the rational farm folk they are, 30 miles away and close to the assume the worst. Even when they tried to call back andy, who now wasnt answering. By 11 30, both of us were like somethings really wrong. And the minister called and said, you need to come home. And i said, im not going anywhere until you tell me whats wrong. And they said, your mom and dad have been killed. And i think i did start re and we headed towards the farm to be with andy. Never in a million years would you think that youd see your parents house taped off by that yellow tape. Reporter it was a stunning crime. Big news throughout the midwest. The stocks the most unlikely victims. Wayne found on the upstairs landing dead of a shotgun blast. Wife sharmon murdered in her own bedroom. A telephone in hand as if trying to call for help. Caution. Right now this is an unsolved homicide. Whether its somebody local or somebody from another town, we dont know at this time. 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We were standing there, and he looked at me and he said, son, he said, when its my day to go, hold your head high, keep living life. Ill 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 tas 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 didnt investigators were soon looking hard right at him. After all, he was there, he had opportunity, and he may have had motive. He might have had something to gain from his parents death. Why . Andy stock was the already designated heir to the stock hay company, which some people might ns as investigators questioned andy, csi units were busily working the crime scene as well. It was a very brutal crime scene. It was one of the worst ive ever seen. Reporter one of those leading the investigation . David kofoed, the head of the csi squad in douglas county. From omaha, an hour away, he was called in to help the smaller Cass County Sheriffs Department. What really bothers me is that these two people were just sleeping in bed and the male victim was apparently crawling away and he was shot in the head. 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 stooks 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 killers route might have gone past the now empty Easter Basket sharmon had made, througe stairs to where the stocks lay sleeping. Four 12gauge 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 wasnt just one killer, but at least two. When we did the blood pattern analysis, we saw a void area at reporter which could only mean one thing. As one of the killers fired at wayne stock from behind, this area, called a void area, was where another killer would have been standing. The second killer sprayed with blood spatter instead of a wall. Kofoed and his team found a wealth of evidence outside the house, too. It was a big farm operation. And there was a lot of out buildings and it was complicated by the fact that theyd had an Easter Egg Hunt the day before. So we had a lot of shoe prints and stuff. Reporter but one print stood out. I saw a shoe print in the mud that was unusual. By a flower bed near the front door. Reporter and beyond the flower bed, there was a virtual trail of evidence left by the likely killers. In a gravel driveway, there was a marijuana pipe and about ten feet from it, there was a flashlight, and those two things were obviously out of place. Reporter you could sort of imagine the Television Show csi. Oh, theres a its just too easy. But there it was. It was there. I think one thing i knew pretty much right at the beginning was i could visibly see blood on the outside of the flashlight. We knew that had to be involved. Reporter but then a real breakthrough. A Newspaper Carrier called in to report that he and his girlfriend saw something. Theyd been driving down this country road middle of the night about a mile from the stock farmhouse down there. Cemetery, they saw a car just parked here. Strange cars just dont get parked on country roads outside murdock, nebraska, at 3 00 in the morning. It was tan or light brown, fourdoor sedan said the young man. And what really stuck out was that this car later passed them in the same area that same night. This time driving 60 or 70 miles an hour. It was in a rush, it appeared, to get away. That car, seen by the Newspaper Carrier. The flashlight with what appeared to be blood on it. The marijuana pipe. And detectives were probably looking for more than one killer. But a motive . Who knew . Not a thing was missing. Wallets, purses, gun collections, even a safe hidden in the bedroom floor, all untouched. But all that evidence. Closest to the stocks would soon pay off because just a week later an arrest and a confession. And another shattering blow to familys dinner table that Easter Sunday . One diamond for your true love. For the one woman whos both. Ever us. Available at kay, jared and zales. Choose only the best ingredients. 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Ah man wait, is that a basketball player . Yes wow my hearts about to jump out my chest man. Charles you ought to be proud man. Im just extremely grateful they were here giving them some encouragement thats something that these kids are going to remember for a lifetime. Did you see his big old feet . Look. Andy stock was and still is a grief stricken man. And it wasnt long before investigators restored him to his family and dropped him from their list of possible suspects in the awful murders of wayne and sharmon stock. Besides, as detectives questioned the couples large extended family, another relatives name came up quite often actually. Matt livers. He was wayne and sharmons nephew, 28 years old. He attended the easter dinner the afternoon leading up to the murder. But he wasnt 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. Sometimes heated. They said sharmon had a dislike for matt. The stocks oldest son steve i think in my head i went to it a little bit just knowing that they hadnt gotten along real well. I had my own suspicion. Reporter just two days after the murders, detectives visited matt livers former employer, asked about his personality, rumors that he had a temper. They put a watch on him and went through his garbage, too. Th lincoln, about 30 miles from the murder scene. Then on april 25th, then eight days after the bodies were discovered they asked matt livers to come in and answer some questions. Youre free to leave at any time. Im here to cooperate with you gentleman. Reporter he was unerringly courteous, deferential to the two detectives questioning him. Said hed never been interviewed by police before. What do you think happened . Who, what, when, where and how and why . You know, why would somebody do this to such good people, very christian people . Very likable people. Reporter livers told them after the big family dinner with the stocks, he drove home the half hour to lincoln where he stayed all night with his girlfriend sara and saras young son and a roommate. He did admit to having wayne over the various family issues, but those were minor, he said. Any problems between you guys . Years ago we kind of had a tiff. Yeah, but you know, thats been done, forgotten. Reporter after five hours of questions, matt livers agreed to take a polygraph. Do you know for sure who caused the death of wayne stock . No. Taking that test, it did not have the desired effect. Your subconscious body is telling the machine. You cannot fool it. I didnt have anything to do with this. You did. I did not. You did. I did not, bill. You did. No, i didnt. Im sorry. You did. Reporter for hours they locked horns with livers. Despite his continued denial of involvement, they knew he was lying. Weve had too many people sitting in that chair that think theyre smart and theyre not. No. Dumb as a brick. No, you are not dumb as a brick. Okay . You made a mistake. And you got to pay for it. Reporter why were investigators here in nebraska so convinced matt livers was lying . Well, besides the polygraph, there was the state profiler who suggested that this is the sort of crime committed by young males who know their victims. How else would they know to find the farm house way out in the middle of nowhere if they didnt know them . And add to that, said the profiler, this is the sort of personal. An execution. Matt livers rang those bells, all of them, and rang them loudly. Eventually, detectives got quite explicit, telling livers he was headed for death row. Unless he would start giving them what they knew to be true. You dont admit to me exactly what youve done, im going to walk out that door and do my level best to hang your ass from the highest tree. Youre done. This is your one shot. We put tli right now and attempt to help you. Okay . Electric chair, gas, lethal injection. Reporter it was that technique that finally produced the desired effect. Rough, perhaps, yes, but matt livers started confessing. You got a gun. Right. And you took that gun back to your uncle and aunt sharmons right or wrong . Come on, matt. Right. Reporter now that the cat was out of the bag, livers began filling in more of the blanks. How the murder went down, for example. You put the gun to her face and blew her away. Okay. And then as i headed out, i just stuck it to him and blew him away. Reporter then a bonus. Remember how that blood spatter indicated a second killer was involved . Well now before they trooped him off to jail, matt livers gave them a name to match the void on the wall. 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