young girl either. ballistics tests soon confirmed the shell matched the spent shells at scene. murder weapon stolen from the house where they stole the pickup truck. blood found on the shoes matched the victim. icing on the cake, dna found on the gold ring and marijuana pipe matched only fester and reed. both were charged, first-degree murder. of course, as all this was happening, back in nebraska, no one outside law enforcement knew a inc. thing. the stock children were in shock. we had just lost both our mom and dad. to lose one is horrible, but do lose both of them and not have those parent figures that kept
federal jury in omaha heard the case and took just an hour to acquit him of all counts. but the state of nebraska wasn t satisfied. appointing a special cous cuter and charged him with evidence tampering. this time, after a week-long trial before a judge on what one head line called a dark day for law enforcement, he was found guilty. you understand what you were convicted of? yes your honor. at the sentencing he said the truth would eventually come out. i don t believe this is the last of this case for me. i want to continue on and that s nothing personal with you. but the judge acknowledging he was moved by letters written by livers and samson asking him to throw the book at him, did just that. the defendant has not acknowledged any wrongdoing. he s no the appeared to be particularly remorseful.
while the children of wayne and sharmon stock tried to make sense of a release of a man they d been told killed their parents. it s a difficult situation. none of us are attorneys or law enforcement. and you re just sitting there trying to take it all in, trying to figure out, okay, how does this work? why does this happen. hadn t their cousin confessed? is at least he was still in custody. as for those two teens in wisconsin, so it wasn t as if the whole case was falling apart. at least not yet. but if anyone did not feel confused in the october chill, it was defense attorneys who were as sure as the summer day that both nick and matt were innocent, despite what matt told police during the interrogation. it was just screaming to me, false confession. there was every indication in