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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 ....
I promise you guys this. you know what? 17 years old and you have just thrown the rest of your life away. reporter: she tried to explain the words, changed her story again, confessed to firing one gunshot. then admitted something else quite shocking. that she had enjoyed it. okay. i ll tell you guys what i did like. i liked the adrenaline of it. i know you did it. i didn t like what caused the adrenaline rush. but i liked the adrenaline rush. reporter: that s a real shocker for you. you don t run into that in this little town too often. well, no. and you don t run into it with a young girl either. reporter: ballistics tests soon confirmed that the shell found in reid s cigarette box matched spent shells found at the murder scene. the murder weapon, stolen from the same wisconsin farmhouse where reid and fester stole the red pickup truck. blood found on reid s clothes and fester s shoes matched the victim, wayne stock. ....
reporter: then the lawyers went looking for evidence of the phone calls matt described in his confession, calls in which he and nick supposedly planned 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 never took place. you know, it simply didn t occur. reporter: but couldn t they have used, you know, those kind of phones that you can buy that you can t trace? that s theoretically possible, but there s no evidence of that. reporter: add to that a ballistics test confirmed the gun found under nick s bed was not the murder weapon. the spot on nick s jeans thought to be blood wasn t human blood at all. and now the arrests of these teenagers from wisconsin, two people clearly present at the crime scene, but never mentioned at all in any of matt livers hours and hours of police interviews. all this led julie bear to head over to the jail to ask matt livers face-to-face about these alle ....
And icing on the cake. dna found on the gold ring and the marijuana pipe matched only fester and reid. both were charged. first degree murder. of course, as all this was happening, back in nebraska, no one outside law enforcement knew a thing. the stock children were certainly in the dark, as they struggled to grip the wheel of their new strange lives. we have just lost both our mom and our dad. to lose one is horrible, but to lose both of them. and not have those parent figures that kept this family going. where do we go? how do we help andy with the farm? how do we how do we let our children have a normal life? reporter: meanwhile, in their cells in county jail, matt livers and nick sampson knew not a wit about these developments. then well into june, defense attorney soucie heard the words that changed everything. i got a call saying they ve ....
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 another shot from greg fester s 12 gauge. then greg shot the guy in the back of the head. and he went back in that room and shot that lady. he ran down the stairs and i ran after him. and that ring that they found reporter: yeah. it flew off and i didn t know until like way, way later when they showed me a picture of it. because i knew i lost that ring, but i had no idea where. reporter: what was it like in that truck on the way away? we didn t say anything. i mean, i started crying at one point and greg just looked at me and he was like, don t do that. you know. reporter: but what about those letters? the words found later in that house with reid s belongings, with that cigarette box? words she wrote. bol ....