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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. keith served on the school board. >> busy people. >> yeah. >> very, very. they touched the lives of so many people. >> reporter: she was a teacher's aide for 17 years at a rural school. taught lessons also that didn't end in class. >> one thing i always heard from 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 peo...

The county jail in plattsmouth, 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, s...

My dna anywhere near that house because i've never been in that house. never, ever, once in my entire life have i ever been in that house. >> reporter: he agreed to take a polygraph. but again it wasn't quite what the accused hoped for. the polygrapher showed that sampson was deceptive when he denied being at the home when wayne was shot. and investigators seized on that to ratchet up the pressure. >> you were at the house when he was killed. >> no, i was not. >> your body's telling me otherwise. we need to get past that. at's goi othere? >> i honest to god was not at the house when they were ...

>> i got that from a newspaper reporter. >> reporter: it didn't come from the prosecutor's office. >> no, it was being sealed. i met him at a bar and for the price of a budweiser i was able to read the affidavit of the teenagers reed and fester. >> reporter: those affidavits slipped to attorneys by a reporter contained details culled from the hours and hours of police interviews with greg fester and jessica reid. >> greg blew a guy's head off. >> reporter: and told the story of the 12 gauge shotgun. the shells, the ring, the marijuana pipe and, most tellingly, that dna. irrefutably linking rei...

Nobody's going to confess to something they didn't do. especially something so horrible as the murder of your own relatives. >> well, they changed their tactics on me. my rear end was going to be in the frying pan. they were going to be going for the death penalty. >> reporter: you're scared. >> yeah. tremendously. i thought if i tell them what they wanted to hear, that i could get to go home. >> reporter: how did nick's name come up? >> they asked me who else was involved and i started just throwing out names. finally when i said nick's name, then that's when they seemed they were happy and b...