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Off. like it wasn't a big deal. >> reporter: but then early december -- >> he had called me one day saying he really needed to talk to me and i could hear in his voice he was worried or concerned or something was going on. >> reporter: scott was contrite. said he had a confession to make. >> he apologized because he wasn't honest with me, that i'd asked if he had ever been married and that, in fact, he had lost his wife and this would be the first holidays without her. >> reporter: and that's the expression he used? "i lost my wife." >> yes. and he was crying and just, you know, like, very emo...

The in fact he had lost his wife. this would be the first holidays without her. >> that's the expression he used? having lost my wife? >> yes. and he was crying, and just, you know, very emotional. >> it was a tender moment for amber. and she felt compassion for him. >> i thought maybe she died of cancer, or in an accident, because his words were obviously something recent, or more recent. >> did you? ask >> i didn't ask. i didn't want to pry. he was so emotional. >> with that figure out of his chest, scott gave her a new cell phone number where she could reach him when he took a long trip to ...

December -- >> he had called me one day saying he really needed to talk to me and i could hear in his voice he was worried or concerned or something was going on. >> reporter: scott was contrite. said he had a confession to make. >> he apologized because he wasn't honest with me, that i'd asked if he had ever been married and that, in fact, he had lost his wife and this would be the first holidays without her. >> reporter: and that's the expression he used? "i lost my wife." >> yes. and he was crying and just, you know, like, very emotional. >> reporter: it was a tender moment, said amber. and...

With my partner and i right now because it's only going to, you know, benefit you to tell the truth. this is getting uglier and uglier. >> we went at him one last time. tell us your story. he reiterates almost exactly what he said before. >> which was that he killed lynn schockner because the burglary he tried to carry out went bad. the cops still didn't buy it. >> him and i been doing this a long time, nick. you need to take nick and your responsibility now. take care of nick now please. be truthful with us because we're not going to stop, nick. him and i, that's our job. >> and that's when n...

Someone of that. it just seemed false. like there were just little ticks of stuff that just seemed wrong. >> it started the day his mother was murdered when he and his dad surveyed the house ransacked during the burglary. >> he had me go back and clean up all the jewelry that had been overturned and spilled out. >> what does that do to your mind? >> it made me very numb, very numb. it was a task. and i did it, and then i went to bed. >> and your dad went to bed in the house with you. >> uh-huh. >> charlie understood his father intimately, of course, and he alone knew the secret, understood his...