a tiny remnant of whom have planted themselves in and around a place called murdock, the sort of place where heads turn when a stranger drives by. and a family s name is carved on a local stone. it was easter sunday, 2006. a big farm yard and like every year, an easter egg hunt. grandma and papa s yard. narrator: or mom and dad to tami who brought her own son, like always. found their easter eggs. they found their easter baskets. mom always made every individual easter basket special to that child. narrator: they were like that were wayne and sharmon stock, generous, steady, always there for their children. the eldest steve and daughter tami, the youngest andy. they were loving parents. i don t think they ever
summer, 2006. a rain of confusion washed over the farms and furrows around murdock, nebraska. the arrests 500 miles away in wisconsin of two teenager in connection with the savage shotgun murders of prominent farm couple wayne and sharmon stock sowed seeds of doubt in the official version of events. that version had this an open and shut case against two local men. confessed killer matt livers and the accomplice he named nick sampson. their arrests trumpeted weeks earlier in banner headlines and news conferences. now, these latest arrests of teens jessica reid and greg fester announced so quietly had many wondering what was the connection among these four alleged killers. i called a newspaper reporter. i says, you won t believe this, but they arrested two other people. narrator: sampson s defense attorney jerry soucie and livers attorney julie bear spread the word themselves to local reporters. he called me back about three
in a gravel driveway, there was a marijuana pipe and about ten feet from it, there was a flashlight, and those two things were obviously out of place. narrator: you could sort of imagine the television show csi. right. narrator: there s a light, oh, there s a it s just too easy. but there it was. it was there. i think one thing i knew pretty much right at the beginning was i could visibly see blood on the outside of the flashlight. we knew that had to be involved. narrator: but then a real breakthrough. a newspaper carrier called in to report that he and his girlfriend saw something. they d been driving down this country road middle of the night about a mile from the stock farmhouse down there. and just here outside this cemetery, they saw a car just parked here. strange cars just don t get parked on country roads outside murdock, nebraska, at 3:00 in the morning. it was tan or light brown, four-door sedan said the young
summer, 2006. a rain of confusion washed over the farms and furrows around murdock, nebraska. the arrests 500 miles away in wisconsin of two teenager in connection with the savage shotgun murders of prominent farm couple wayne and sharmon stock sowed seeds of doubt in the official version of events. that version had this an open and shut case against two local men. confessed killer matt livers and the accomplice he named nick sampson. their arrests trumpeted weeks earlier in banner headlines and news conferences. now, these latest arrests of teens jessica reid and greg fester announced so quietly had many wondering what was the connection among these four alleged killers. i called a newspaper reporter. i says, you won t believe this, but they arrested two other people. reporter: sampson s defense attorney jerry soucie and
in a gravel driveway, there was a marijuana pipe and about ten feet from it, there was a flashlight, and those two things were obviously out of place. reporter: you could sort of imagine the television show csi. right. reporter: there s a light, oh, there s a it s just too easy. but there it was. it was there. i think one thing i knew pretty much right at the beginning was i could visibly see blood on the outside of the flashlight. we knew that had to be involved. reporter: but then a real breakthrough. a newspaper carrier called in to report that he and his girlfriend saw something. they d been driving down this country road middle of the night about a mile from the stock farmhouse down there. and just here outside this cemetery, they saw a car just parked here. strange cars just don t get parked on country roads outside murdock, nebraska, at 3:00 in the morning.