will never go away. i m never going to have my son back. i don t get to go to his high school graduation. or see him go to college. i had no idea what had happened! it was like a meteor hitting. potsdam rescue, need an ambulance. a 12-year-old kid. loved to ride his scooter everywhere. lost his life at the hands of a killer. he s a soccer coach! great person on and off the field, a great role model. there is absolutely nothing connecting him to this case. they don t have the fingerprint. they don t have blood. they don t have the witness. there s a darkness that s at work here. you believe nick hillary killed your boy? yes. people call me a murderer. i m 100% innocent. you could have heard a pin drop in that courtroom. way upstate new york. a small speck on the map on the road to the canadian border. that they like to joke up there that there s more cows than people, and i don t think they re joking. in this sleepy place, with a main street from th
other kids? you know, who was he playing with that afternoon? calls continued coming in to the police hotline, townspeople begging for reassurance. from a school principal we re meeting with our staff right now. the news said that our student had died last night, was possibly beaten to death by another youth. back at the crime scene, police were beginning to pick up clues that suggested another possibility that the killer had to be an adult. the police kind of descend en masse and one of the things they see is that in a back bedroom there s a window that apparently has been pushed outward. the screen is ajar. so whoever s in there has to leave. and there s only one way out. and that s the second-story window. there s no fire escape. you re kind of up off the ground. the developing theory was that when a cop knocked at the door that window became the killer s only exit. police surmised that only a fit adult, not a kid, could make such a dangerous leap. there s kind of
outward. the screen is ajar. so whoever s in there has to leave. and there s only one way out. and that s the second-story window. there s no fire escape. you re kind of up off the ground. the developing theory was that when a cop knocked at the door that window became the killer s only exit. police surmised that only a fit adult, not a kid, could make such a dangerous leap. there s kind of a shed structure beneath the window. yeah, about ten feet down. not an easy jump. a cracked tile was a big clue that the killer ricocheted off the shed on his way down to the ground, where police picked up another clue. they find a skid, kind of a gash in the in the grass below. and keep in mind it was a little bit muddy down there. so this is describing whoever the intruder was s exit from the property. yeah. what basically what they re arguing is that he jumped out of the window down to the shed, off the shed into the grass, and ran off. police wondered if the killer had inju
outward. the screen is ajar. so whoever s in there has to leave. and there s only one way out. and that s the second-story window. there s no fire escape. you re kind of up off the ground. reporter: the developing theory was that when a cop knocked at the door that window became the killer s only exit. police surmised that only a fit adult, not a kid, could make such a dangerous leap. there s kind of a shed structure beneath the window. yeah, about ten feet down. not an easy jump. reporter: a cracked tile was a big clue that the killer ricocheted off the shed on his way down to the ground, where police picked up another clue. they find a skid, kind of a gash in the in the grass below. and keep in mind it was a little bit muddy down there. so this is describing whoever the intruder was s exit from the property. yeah. what basically what they re arguing is that he jumped out of the window down to the shed, off the shed into the grass, and ran off. reporter: police w