detective jim rohr looked for evidence to refute or confirm the stories told by the team, stories they had witnessed but did not commit the gruesome murders of wayne and sharmon stock on an easter evening six weeks before in murdock, nebraska. rohr went to reid s place, a sort of flophouse routines he called it. what we were looking for is anything at all that would tie them to nebraska or any other location they were at during their crime sprees. oh, and he found it, all right. here hidden behind a picture frame was this cigarette box. and inside a shotgun shell, 12 gauge, the same gauges used in the murders. and there was more folded up in that little box. this letter apparently meant for greg fester. it said, quote, and this bullet, well, bunny, it s the only thing
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
murders, but why? coming up, a tape surfaces of what matt said to investigators the very next day. i ve been just making things up to satisfy you guys. when in the dead of night continues. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely. with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast. .and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer.
and that, a few weeks later, is where the ring came in. that s when roarer got a call from nebraska, heard how that ling turned up at the scene of a double murder, heard how they tracked it back to the walmart in beaver dam and then to cori and ryan and the stolen truck. that must have been a shocker to get that information, to have it cross your desk. a huge shocker. that pretty much sends a chill down your spine. reporter: what was going on? how were these two teenagers, reid and fester, tied to the murders of wayne and sharmon stock? or were they at all? an interrogation of one of the teens provides a chilling first glimpse of what may have happened inside that farmhouse. coming up so i freaked out and left because obviously that guy s up there killing somebody. when in the dead of night continues.
welcome back to dateline extra. i m craig melvin. police investigating the murders of wayne and sharmon stock were convinced they had their killers. matt livers had confessed and indicated his cousin nick as an accompli accomplice. but now a teenager from wisconsin admitted she and a friend were also in the farmhouse that night. what connection could the four possibly share? once again, here is keith morrison. reporter: jessica reid, one of the two teens from wisconsin who admitted to being in wayne and sharmon stock s home the night they were killed. the reason i ask you is that the two people upstairs in their bed were shot to death. and you re saying that me and greg did it? i m telling you, you re telling us you re in this house, okay? did you not oh, my god. i never killed anybody. okay? i really didn t. this is so seriously i didn t do it. i took money. that s all i did.