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Diapers, play dates, and tantrums. but even then she never forgot how to be a good daughter. in 2006, her dad john was dying of cancer: it was a major event. >> a major event. >> john's decline. >> well, four years he fought it. last six months of his life, she came every night at 5:00 and sat for like a half an hour to visit. that was her time with him. >> reporter: worn down with the stress of care giving and raising four kids, was it any wonder when cory herself fell ill. it was the weekend before valentine's day, 2006. >> she was feely poorly and -- >> feeling poorly how, curt? what was sh...

>> that's what we discuss. that's what we went with. >> reporter: unusual for a young woman to die of unknown causes, but it does happen. without more to go on, the detective closed the case. >> reporter: cory's mother, marty, still in shock, could barely bring herself to read the autopsy report. >> cory was drinking. we don't deny that. she was bulimic and -- and i did try to talk to curtis about that at one time. told it was all okay, and it was going to be fine. >> reporter: now, as she mourned cory, marty knew her suffering would only deepen. her husband, john, was dying. >> we had a visit...

This is somebody who's been as close to you as anybody can be. >> right. >> >> as matt kidder waited in the local jail, evidence piled up. he talked to his father on the phone. recorded of course. >> i think she fell asleep on the couch after i left, and somebody came in behind. >> after you left? you were never there. >> dad, my phone puts me there. dad, my phone puts me there. >> oh. >> it's changed now from the 169 times he denied being at the house. yelling at the detective very sternly deny that he was even there. that was big. >> there was more. he got chatty with his cellmate. told him ...

Railroaded over. this >> this poor kid had some kind of sexual relationship and then afterwards he got in it said again in trouble for it she blames. >> yeah. >> i even knew somebody that knew her. as she told me the same thing that she was always up to no good. >> so after matt got out of prison, the nelsons celebrated with him and his family. after all, his dad and harry nelson had been best friends for decades. just as he was best friends with jessica and her brother. >> they've had my back for as long as i can remember. >> after jessica's death, matt provided a sample of his dna. said of c...

Jealous terribly. the last time we spoke, dominic was living with his dad john. and also with laura and his half brother christopher. after jessica's death, laura stepped in to help out as much as she could. >> we were over there all the time. with dom and john in the kids all playing together. and it was one day after the next. after the next. and you just fall together. it's one good thing that came out of this tragedy. dame has a whole family. and he is happy about that. he says i have a mommy and heaven. i got a mom here. >> in time, laura and john got engaged. and the nelson family grew b...