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>> 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...

The public's attention the way this one did. >> two children accused of a murder where the victim was their own father. >> two brothers, ages 13 and 14. >> it's called parenticide. a child killing a parent. >> two brothers confessed to killing their father with a baseball bat. but then they changed their story claiming they didn't murder their father. their family friend, rick chavis did it. so they all were charged with the murder of the boy's father and rick chavis would be the first to go on trial. >> this is a very unusual set of circumstances. >> unusual because the boys would be tried as...

In the waning days of summer 2002, while most kids were getting ready to head back to school, alex king and his brother, derek, were waiting to find out if they were heading to prison. would a jury convict them of murdering their father with a baseball bat? in five hours, the boys had their answer. >> the clerk's office would publish those two verdicts, please. >> jurors said it was alex's banal but horrifying description of the murder scene that told them the boys weren't in rick chavis' car at all. they were there in the house present in the killing. >> and he was still trying to breathe and...