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Being an adult. i felt completely lost. >> it's a baffling scenario for the obedient kid. who attends bible baptist church and 5th street junior high school in west point, mississippi. >> i never had any problems with tyler. he was an honor student. he was in the gifted program. he played the trumpet in the band. >> tyler's parents are divorced. and sharon has full custody. he's also close with his half sister, christy, a daughter from his father's previous marriage. >> never really grew up around my dad. and my sister was the only person in my dad's entire family who ever really had anything ...

Sleep. >> according to tyler the siblings accomplished the task by holding a .22 caliber bolt action rifle at the same time. >> right here. my stomach. >> tyler would later contend the story is false and christie is the real killer. he concocted the confession because he believes the authorities will show her leniency if he shares the blame. as the interrogation ends tyler expects to return home with his mother. instead he's taken to a jail cell. his mind racing. >> why are they doing this to me? my sister said nothing would happen to me. surely she didn't do this on purpose, you know. and the...

And i was like, do you know that they can do anything they want to with you now? oh, come here. tyler wayne. tyler, look at me. stand up and talk to me, son. >> i can't stand up, my legs -- >> it's what popped in my head. it sounded like a great excuse not to stand up and face her. >> i don't want her staying. >> please stand up, son. >> i can't. >> i knew that if i could make him look me in the face that if he was guilty of this, i would see it. and i would feel it. and he knew it, too. >> okay, tyler. your mom went back outside. you want to stop talking now? >> i went out to get a phone so

>> i saw some blood. it was on a pillow i guess, something white. >> would not have been any blood that shown up. the pillow wasn't white. a lot of point of appeal, one of the points no way any pathologist or anybody else could look at a bullet wound and say it was inflicted by two different people holding the gun. that was one of the reasons i sent the case back for new tile. >> on november 1st, 2008, a second jury clears tyler. he briefly moves out of state then returns to mississippi to be close to his mother and run a small shop less than 30 minutes from the crime scene. still haunted by w...

The sheriff's department. and your name is tyler? >> may 12th, 2003. >> and you're age 13? >> yes, sir. >> we're going to talk to you about the murder case. >> with his mother waiting down the hall, tyler edmonds is making a critical decision. telling sheriff deputies he's responsible for killing his brother-in-law. just west of starkville, mississippi. >> i was just holding the gun. i heard it go off and i looked at him and saw it actually hit him. >> but tyler will later insist the confession is false. a misguided effort to protect the person he calls the real killer. his half sister, the vi...