the police interview as little more than a nuisance to be endured. my grandma s coming into town, and i kind of i want to do this, but i want to do it a little bit faster. this going to take forever. reporter: jessica was all of 17. did she wonder why the wisconsin cop was joined by investigators from nebraska? i really want to know what nebraska has to do with this? because i don t think we even entered nebraska. reporter: didn t go to nebraska, didn t know anything about a gold ring, she said. she and fester just stole a truck, she said, and fueled by pot and massive dose of over the counter cough syrup went off in search of the ocean before running outs of gas and money and leaving that pickup truck in louisiana. but then they showed her a picture of a marijuana pipe, which, along with the gold ring, turned up at the stock farmhouse. and jessica reid s mantle began to crack. okay. i did steal i stole a whole bunch of money from somebody.
imagine the television show csi. right. reporter: there s a light, oh, there s a it s just too easy. but there it was. it was there. i think one thing i knew pretty much right at the beginning was i could visibly see blood on the outside of the flashlight. we knew that had to be involved. reporter: but then a real breakthrough. a newspaper carrier called in to report that he and his girlfriend saw something. they d been driving down this country road middle of the night about a mile from the stock farmhouse down there. and just here outside this cemetery, they saw a car just parked here. strange cars just don t get parked on country roads outside murdock, nebraska, at 3:00 in the morning. it was tan or light brown, four-door sedan said the young man. and what really stuck out was that this car later passed them in the same area that same night. this time driving 60 or 70 miles an hour.
and at what turned out to be the stock farmhouse, in they went. greg was like, follow me real quick. so i followed him and we went upstairs and when i turned around, greg had turned on a light in the room. and i seen this guy laying in the bed. and i said, come on, let s go, let s do something. because there was people there. reporter: what was the feeling you had as you said that? like panic. it was like craziness like god, what if they wake up. you know? reporter: but. he just turned and went into that room. the guy had rolled out of bed and they were wrestling with the gun. and i just was like startled and my gun went off. and i have no idea where that shot went. reporter: sources close to the investigation, though, tell dateline there s reason to believe that whether jessica knows it or not, her wild shot may have been the fatal one. that it may have struck wayne stock in the head with evidence of the blast obliterated by
god, they are some dumb people for getting us brought into this. reporter: then she was told the electric chair stood ready for her if she refused to cooperate, and jessica reconsidered. this guy, i don t know why, but he does look kind of familiar. reporter: that s nick sampson, who looked kind of familiar. and from there, as the hours 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. so i cruised down because obviously that guy s up there killing somebody. i don t want to stick around and have to deal with this [ bleep ]. excuse my language. i m sorry. but i don t know what happened
two towns, murdock, nebraska, beaver dam, wisconsin, more than 500 miles apart. now united, undeniably, by a single band of gold. that ring sold in a beaver dam walmart and found days after the murder in the kitchen of the stock farmhouse. how did it get there? matt livers never said anything about a ring when he confessed to killing wayne and sharmon stock. nothing about a stolen truck or out of control wisconsin teenagers either. one of whom, jessica reid, out on bail over the vehicle theft, responded to an invitation to visit the wisconsin detective, jim roarer. she had to know somewhere in the back of her mind that maybe they know more or want to talk to me about more than just a stolen truck. reporter: did she? in fact, as she settled in, young ms. reid seemed to view the police interview as little more than a nuisance to be endured. my grandma s coming into town, and i kind of i want to