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A 14,000 acre wildfire in colorado is zero percent contained. opening arguments are scheduled monday morning in the trial of jerry sandusky, the former coach at penn state could mississippi, may 12, 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

>> narrator: may 12, 2003. >> and you're age 13? >> yes, sir. >> we're going to talk to you about the murder case of joey fulgham. >> narrator: with his mother waiting down the hall tyler edmonds is making a critical decision, telling sheriff's 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. >> narrator: but tyler will later insist the confession is false, a misguided effort to protect the person he calls the real killer, his half-sister kristi fulg...

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 christy 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 her do it, then she did half of it, i did half of it, then i still won't get in trouble because of how old i am and then she won't get in much trouble because it wasn't just her. and so i just kind ...

Relationship >> narrator: joey blames christy for a relationship with his best friend, a romance that discusses the birth of their child. even discusses it on the montel williams show. >> you want to stay together but you're going to make her pay. >> i'm going to remind her of it every moment i get. >> narrator: according to tyler, on the night of may 10, 2003, he's sitting in the car outside his sister's home when he hears a loud noise. >> to me, it sounded like you, you know, you take a textbook and you drop it on the floor and you get that pop, slam, slap, whatever you want to call it. and ...

>> it may seem absurd to us to confess to a felony that you didn't commit, but it's not absurd to a 13-year-old child. last part of the brain to 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...