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Shelter, stoll is ever thankful for his freedom. >> hear the birds? pretty nice. and there's a big beautiful stream down there. and john's son and i go fishing. >> the one person you're not able to go fishing with is your own son. >> yeah. yeah. a loss of 20 years. i can put that away but i can't put jed away. you know, that's always there. because one day i went out fishing, we were having a good time and all of a sudden i get in a terrible funk because i thought about jed. i thought man, he could be sitting over there. and it just really kicked my butt. and when i first got out of prison, i ...

Decision day in the retrial of john stoll. what the judge rules will determine stoll's fate. back to prison as a sex offender or out as a free man. >> the ruling on the petition for a writ of habeas corpus is as follows -- >> from the start it looked bad for john stoll. the judge pointed out some inconsistencies in the boy's 20-year-old recollections. >> a judge talked about everything that was bad about our case. >> the judge also pointed out that not only had stoll's son jed testified that his father molested him, jed also said no one put words in his mouth or forced him to say things that w...

Didn't think about it. >> prosecutors accused them all. stoll, self, grafton, and her boyfriend, of raping boys from 5 to 8 years of age. and one of the star witnesses was grafton's 7-year-old son, donald, who took the stand and said not only that stoll had molested him, worst of all, he told the jury, his own mother had forced him into orgies. you were accused of sexually molesting your own son? >> yes. just the thought that everybody in the world thought that i had done that was devastating. it was devastating. >> and what was going on inside while you heard those things? >> i couldn't belie...

Against him, stoll's conviction seemed all but assured. so the prosecutors offered stoll what appeared to be a generous plea bargain. what deal did they offer you? >> 12 years. >> why didn't you take it? >> i'm no child molester. >> or so he said. but then john stoll's son jed and five other little boys took the stand and gave humiliating testimony before a judge and jury. the children hung their heads and answered yes or no to explicit questions about horrific acts of molestation. you're down there sitting at your table in the courtroom listening to your son. >> yeah. >> what was that like fo...

Months passed, the wait seemed interminable. and then finally the decision. motion granted. a judge would rehear the case against stoll. no cameras were allowed during the testimony. but outside the courtroom, those little boys, now men, described circumstances in 1984 which they said were surreal. terrifying. so how did all this stuff get started? >> the sheriffs came to my house and told my parents that other kids had seen stuff happen to me. >> what kind of stuff? >> that sexual acts occurred between me and john stoll and i had seen stuff happen between john stoll and other children. >> tha...