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Do it because that's the truth. kaylee's dead. >> unlike rex krebs, thomas is a complete stranger to the criminal justice system. >> here he's 12. his sister's dead. he's emotionally an infant at this point. >> if emotional wounds were visible, this child would have bled to death before the first interview was over. >> in the summer of 2006, thomas is about to enter the eighth grade while living here with kaylee and their mother, melody jones. she suffers from mental illness and has attempted suicide at least once. >> she could go from one emotion to the other in a snap. if we -- me and my sis...

Playing and we got too loud or anything, my mom would flip out and start yelling and screaming and grab something and maybe hit one of us. i stayed away from her, because i didn't know how she would act. >> on august 7th, shortly after they find kaylee's body in her bedroom, thomas and his mother are asked to come to camden police headquarters. thomas enters the box or interview room. what follows is a remarkable window into the interrogation process from the suspect's point of view. >> did you argue with your sister very often? >> every now and then, like maybe once a day. >> i just answered ...

Might do it again. we'd have to be in fear for anybody else he's around, any other child or young person or even you. >> at a certain point, detectives excuse themselves and leave melody alone. when they do, a camera picks up a faint sound from another room. >> you hear the words from a male voice, thomas, i'm not going to ask you -- and it fades off and i think the next word is "again." and it's about at that point that thomas says that he decided that it was time to go ahead and tell them what they wanted to hear. >> after i get through eating, this other man comes in, and we start talking. ...

Kaylee's face come from walmart. >> i didn't know she was dead yet. i feared that there was something wrong, but i wasn't aware fully. >> thomas? >> yeah. >> thomas, i'm with the state police. >> yes. >> and i've been kind of listening to some of the story that you've been telling. and i'm going to tell it to you just like it is. you're an intelligent boy, aren't you? >> yeah. >> well, we're pretty intelligent, too. >> okay. >> and the bottom line is nobody broke in that house last night. so your sister died and there was only two people in the house that could have killed her. >> okay. >> you...

John merman looks at what happened to this eighth grader. >> reporter: it's being called the saddest moment in "jeopardy!" history. an eighth grader loses "final jeopardy" during kids week for misspelling a word. >> emancipation -- well, because he misspelled it badly, emancipati emancipation, you put a "t" in there, that's unfortunate. the judges are ruling against you. >> reporter: 12-year-old thomas hurley iii held back tears after his loss. he later told his local newspaper, i was pretty upset that i was cheated out of the final "jeopardy!" question. it was just a spelling error. the incid...