he denied being a marijuana user anymore, but he had had trouble with the drug before and investigators found that marijuana pipe at the scene. when detectives visited nick s grandfather in murdaugh, the man told him that a month ago nick borrowed a 12 gauge shotgun from him, saying the same gauged weapon that was used in the murders. then, investigators executed a search warrant of sampson s home. among the items seized from under the bed that 12 gauge borrowed from his grandfather and a pair of blue jeans, examined by csi chief david we had a pair of pants and the pants had what looked like blood on them. we tested that and it was positive. now, that was the real smoking gun. i mean, you ve got it. and then there was more. remember the car apparently seen by the newspaper carrier parked a mile from the farmhouse? detectives had found it, they believed.
behind me, you know? there was a real genuine itch in your back fear that somebody was going to come after you? come after me, come after my family, you know revenge. because around this county borough nebraska were a great many people, perhaps the majority who are still quite certain that nick was guilty. after all, his own cousin matt admitted full-out that they both killed those lovely people. i was upset, at a loss of why my own cousin would do this to me. why would he do it to you? if it wasn t true. to make himself look better. use me as a scapegoat. nick samson was now off the hook, but what about matt? coming up true, he had confessed to the murders, but was there more to the story? a tape surfaces of what he said to investigators. i ve been just making things
the murders, and, the records revealed there wasn t one call, not one between matt and nick in the days before the murder. that phone communication ever took place, you know, it s simply didn t occur. but, couldn t they have used, you know, those kind of phones you can buy that you can trace? that s theoretically possible but there s no evidence of that. and add to that a ballistic test confirmed the gun found under nick bed was not the murder weapon. the spot on next genes thought to be blood wasn t human blood at all. and now the arrest of these teenagers from wisconsin, to people clearly present at the crime scene but never mentioned idle in any of matt live years hours and hours of police interviews. all of this lead julie baird to head to the jail, to ask matt live first face to face about these alleged accomplices. read and fester. present him with what is
being said do you know these people. and? not a clue. never seen them. spoke to them. maybe he was lying to you? not a chance. it will take another month for copies of those videotaped investigations of reade and fester to inch their way to the defense attorneys, but when they finally did? more surprises. like this comment there in the interrogation of jessica reid. i know there was nobody else there, it was just me and greg. that s what happened. i am not kidding. and if no one believes me, then i really want to go back to myself. there were, she said, no other killers just her, just greg. and that whole story about meeting nick sampson at the bar, she made it up, she said, after detective showed her a picture of the place and asked or if it looked familiar? for nick simpson s lawyer, the case was now as good as done.
confusion. nick sampson struggled with the bitterness, the long jail bound nightmare had planted in his soul. while the children of wayne and sharmon stop tried to make sense of the release of a man who they had been told killed their parents. it s a difficult situation, none of us are attorneys, none of us are in law enforcement, you just sit there and take it all in, try to figure out okay, how does this work, why did this happen? i hadn t their cousin matt livers confessed, at least he was still in custody, as for those two teams in wisconsin, 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 baer and soucie who were usher as the summer day that both nick samson and matt livers were innocent, despite what matt