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After his sister's husband, joey fulgham, is found dead at this house just west of town. >> tyler, do you know -- you're telling the truth, right? they're not making you say stuff that you don't want to say? look at me. look at me. are you having problems? well, what's wrong? >> narrator: as with james biela, the camera keeps rolling while a loved one confronts a suspect inside the box. but, unlike biela who remains evasive even with his girlfriend, tyler has spoken to investigators at length, confessing to joey's murder. a costly assertion he'd spend much of the next decade denying. >> in a m...

>> narrator: tyler never considers asking for an attorney, and, despite his arrangement with kristi, he tells investigators he knows nothing about the crime. >> there's a deputy saying, you did this, your sister told us you did this. and i'm thinking, what? >> they assume that if they pressured him enough he'd change his story and tell the truth. but what he did is change his story to tell another lie to protect his sister. >> this is very important to you that you give us a statement and that you're telling the truth. because we want you to tell it just like it happened. okay? okay? >> i thin...

He could have seen. >> she put her hand on the trigger and i put my hand on the trigger. >> one of the points was there is no way a pathologist could look at a bullet wound and say it was inflicted by two different people holding the gun. that was one of the reasons they sent the case back for a new trial. >> on november 1, 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 what he calls the most destructive choice of his life. >> i'll go ahead an...

Develop is the portion of the brain that deals with judgment. and children have no judgment. >> how do you know that it killed him? i mean, you said -- >> there was, like -- i saw some blood, like, it was on a pillow, i guess. i thought i had done a great job, as sad as that sounds. i really thought i had just done my sister like the greatest service in the world. i wish i could take it back, but i done it and i may as well go ahead and pay for what i had done. >> narrator: as tyler speaks, his mother remains in another section of the building wondering why her son's interview is taking so lon...

>> narrator: but in the middle of the night, tyler says he's awoken by kristi, told to wait for her outside in her vehicle. >> i just heard that pop and kristi got in the car. >> did she tell you she shot him? is that what she said, that she killed him? what did she say? >> she said, tell them it's an accident. tell them it wasn't supposed to go off and it did. if she really cared about me, she wouldn't have put me in the situation she put me in. >> i believe you're correct. >> i love her to death but i'll never feel the same about her. this is something she got herself into and i can't save h...