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Who attends bible baptist church and fifth street junior high school in west point, mississippi. >> i never have had problems with tyler. he was in the gifted program, an honors student. he play the trumpet in the band. >> narrator: tyler's parents are divorced and sharon has full custody. he's also close with his half-sister, kristi fulgham, a daughter from his father's previous marriage. >> i 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 to do with me. and i just thought she was the coolest person in the entire wo...

Nbc news is not authorizing the auth then this of these videos. an actual intruder managed to break in this past week. i'm veronica de la cruz. starkville, mississippi, may 12th, 2003. sharon clay bursts into the oktibbeha county sheriff's office where deputies are taping their interrogation with her 13-year-old son tyler. >> he's been in here for 45 minutes. they've been in here talking for 45 minutes without me. >> in the south we say, don't start any and there won't be any. >> i don't start conflict, but i don't take anything either. i will stand up for myself and my children. >> tyler ...

>> i believe the confession. >> narrator: to tyler's mother sharon clay, though, the police acted unethically. >> they had obviously done this behind my back and that was a violation of my rights as tyler's parent. >> he said, we just need to talk to him for a minute. well, 45 minutes later, i start looking for tyler. and that's when i got to the door where they had interrogated him and taped the confession. >> tyler, don't sign anything. >> i signed another one of those papers that i -- >> without me? >> will y'all step outside? we'll call you when we're finished. >> i mean, are y'all doing t...

Of the room. >> narrator: tyler never considers asking for an attorney, and, despite his arrangement with christy, he tells investigators he knows nothing about the crime. >> there's a deputy saying, you did this, your sister told us 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?...

Hear and then i'm going home and this is all over with. >> narrator: still, tyler is not ready to take the blame. >> i'm pretty much reading off of the script in my mind. but then i kind of chickened out. >> and she put her hand on the trigger and i put my hand on the trigger. >> narrator: in tyler's revised version of events, he and kristi are equally responsible for the murder. >> and she kind of squeezed my hand because she didn't think it would work. >> okay. can you show me, show me what you mean by -- >> all right. i had the gun like this. i'm thinking, well, maybe if i say that i helped...