while detectives focus next on jessica s partner in crime, greg fester. conned me into going with her. reporter: it was all jessica s idea, said fester, stealing the truck, the ridiculous trip across the country. as for the murder in the farmhouse, that was the guy they met outside bulldog s bar, he said. who squeezed into their stolen pickup truck, led them to the stocks farmhouse, went upstairs and just started shooting. he kind of ran into the room and he i heard this scream and he shot again. we all run out of the house. reporter: but then, surprise, surprise, fester insisted the man who committed the murders was not nick sampson. wasn t even matt livers, who had already confessed that he was the killer. no, greg fester said, it was some friend he communicated with
for reid, the first to the courthouse, remember, no break at all. the same sentence. two life terms back-to-back. no parole, ever. and for the stock family, ever graceful and remarkably forgiving people, afterwards? a rare flash of anger. i hope they live a miserable life because it s turned our lives upside down. they made the choice to go into that house. mom and dad didn t have a choice. my son, who will never know his grandma and grandpa, doesn t have a choice. reporter: what really happened that night? what led two wisconsin teenagers to throw away their lives by so callously killing a nebraska farm couple everyone loved? perhaps only two people in the world know what happened inside that farmhouse and why. and one is now speaking out.
try and make a joke out of it. but it hurts every once in a while. what will it take to convince them that you re an innocent man? i don t think anything will. you re going to have to live under this cloud for the rest of your life? unless i move. but i don t want to move. i love murdock. that s my home. reporter: but if it seems strange to you that an innocent man could remain so long under suspicion, imagine how bizarre it was about to become as the accused and the accuser play out a truly disturbing drama we ll call trading places. coming up troubling accusations about one of the lead investigators. so you wake up one morning and they say you re a criminal. when in the dead of night continues. night cont ins. can help you quit slow turkey. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting
wore on, jessica s story shape shifted as did the players time and again. until it evolved eventually into a tale that began easter night at bulldog s bar in murdock, where nick sampson, you ll recall, worked and ended at the stock farmhouse. all i remember hearing in this house was, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. and so i was like, that s not good. and so i freaked out and left because obviously that guy is up there killing somebody. i don t want to stick around have to do this [ bleep ] i m sorry, but i don t know what happened up there. reporter: then with that off her chest, jessica looked at the photo of nick the man she claimed was the mastermind of the murder. it sounds really dumb, but i wish he wouldn t have been a murderer. why? he s really hot. why do the hot ones got to be the dumb ones? reporter: and with that, jessica reid s well planned day, in fact all of her plans evaporated in a jail cell.
two people are dead because of me. you know? and i m i have a very hard time with that still. her demeanor, her presence could easily have been that of a kindergarten teacher. instead, she knows she will die in prison and says she is haunted by what happened in that farmhouse. what was it like to watch those people die? hell. reporter: and when you see it in your head? it makes my heart drop. that s one thing in this world that i can t go back and fix. reporter: the truth about that night? here it is, said jessica. she and fester, days without sleep or real food, have been driving aimlessly through wisconsin, iowa, nebraska, breaking into homes along the way. in one, she, too, grabbed a