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But just what the decision was remained a secret under seal until after alex and derek king could go to trial for the very same charge. opening arguments in their case would begin the following month. so next the trial of the king brothers. the jailhouse scrubs were gone and the brothers were dressed in their sunday best. now they were the defendants, accused of the premeditated murder of their father. >> alex was the one who wanted his father dead, who encouraged his brother, derek, to do it. >> derek didn't take the witness stand this time, but alex did. again, his relationship with chavis p...

>> did you at some point believe you were in love with ricky chavis? >> yes, sir. >> prosecutor david rimmer laid out the theory that chavis had killed the boys' father to get him out of the way so he could have alex to himself. alex testified on the night of the murder, he and derek were asleep in their house, their father was asleep, too, when rick sneaked in. >> rick came in our room and he woke derek up and told us to be quiet. >> it was just after midnight, alex testified. he said he and his brother went out to chavis' car and waited. then chavis came out of the house and drove then to hi...

She was a journalism professor who had heard about the case from a former student, now a reporter. >> i called her and i said, this needs looking into a little. so we began as a team, just to try to solve the mystery. it led to the writing of a book. >> for her research kathryn medico had begun writing the brothers, talking by phone. her daughters had gone to the same school as the boys and were about the same age. they took an interest as well. >> they felt a connection early on and they began talking on the phone for hours and hours. >> when rick chavis' trial began, kathryn medico brought h...

It is about sharing your life with someone else. before i met rick, i was straight, but now i am gay. the prosecutor suggested these notes showed alex was so fixated on chavis that he would kill his own father. but when it came time for the boys' defense their attorney portrayed rick chavis as the pedophile who pulled the strings in this whole ugly mess. >> once he began his relationship on alex, he started more on, terry can't love you the way i can, terry is abusive and derek has been allowed to watch as this 40-year-old pedophile sits alex on his lap and kisses him. >> the boys' defense sug...