to drop charges against mr. some son, and he, sitting in jail had become suicidal. >> nick was in really bad shape. so at that point i'm trying to do mesh psychiatric, holding him together. >> the summer dragged by followed by a depressing september. and then, first week of october, the county attorney nathan cox met the press. murder case against nick samson was dropped. sort of. >> since there's no statute of limitations on murder, the state reserves the right to re-file the charges in the future. >> hardly the news the stock family expected, or wanted to hear. though they handled it with surprising grace. >> it's not for us to judge, or to make a statement on that, because we don't know. it was this and then it was that and then it was this and then it was that.