Oct. 1: 'In the Dead of Night'

Coming up this Friday, October 1st, at 8pm/7c:

A Nebraskan family's Easter Sunday celebration is followed by tragedy when their parents are murdered in cold blood. Keith Morrison reports on this unimaginable crime and how justice prevailed in a case where nothing was what it seemed.

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....*sigh* what a waste of life, both for the victims and there young people who committed to crime......

How can a 17 yr old girl be so void of a conscience?????

    Reply#1 - Fri Oct 1, 2010 9:14 PM EDT

    This is a horrible thing..not only for the family but also the kids that have now lost their lives...but...ask yourself this...why can't the cop look Keith in the eye, he wanted to make himself a hero and did whatever he thought would make him one....at least the girl had enough balls to tell the truth, not throw innocent guys under the bus....

      Reply#2 - Fri Oct 1, 2010 10:03 PM EDT

      Thank you Dateline for doing a tasteful/respectful job of telling this story about the Stocks. Much better than the gruesome version 20/20 aired a month ago.
      My heart continues to ache for The Stock family.

        Reply#3 - Fri Oct 1, 2010 10:24 PM EDT

        This story sounded more like a Grisham novel that real life.  If that jeweler had not went through all those records, it would have been a very different outcome.  Do you think the CSI guy would have said the paper was contaminated, if it had been the two Nebraska boys on trial for their lives? 

          Reply#4 - Fri Oct 1, 2010 10:42 PM EDT

          Thank you so much for showing the truth of what happened with the police in this case. I am a mom going through something similar with my son who is innocent sitting in our county Jail. There was a huge delay in getting the video interviews and our first attorney was never given them. The discovery was twisted and left out any of the facts that showed the truth in our case. I thought this kind of police work only happened in our town in different state full of prisons. So many innocent people are behind bars in our county it is terrifying. The outcome for our son remains unknown at this time but the lies that put hime there were heard as absolute truth and the liars have never been investigated.........

            Reply#5 - Fri Oct 1, 2010 11:22 PM EDT

            As soon as we heard Keith morrison's inexpressibly annoying voice, we deleted the show.

            He would be more appropriate on a show like Sesame Street

              Reply#6 - Sat Oct 2, 2010 1:16 AM EDT

              As soon as we heard Keith morrison's inexpressibly annoying voice, we deleted the show.

              He would be more appropriate on a show like Sesame Street

                Reply#7 - Sat Oct 2, 2010 1:17 AM EDT

                Over the years I have experienced nagging feelings of doubt and suspicion in some real crime cases regarding evidence that suddenly shows up in tough to solve crimes where prosecutors want a 'smoking gun' to ensure a conviction. This story sickened me in more ways than one. The actions of the CSI were unforgivable; but the Stock family, who seem to be completely solid, continue to hold resentments towards their cousin Matt Livers and Nick Sampson.......who were completely innocent. I firmly believe there are hundreds and possibly thousands of innocent victims in jails, falsely convicted by police-planted 'evidence' and intimidation tactics of innocent 'suspects'..........

                  Reply#8 - Sat Oct 2, 2010 8:33 AM EDT

                  yes, the wisconsin kids are a sad example of youth gone wrong, but the real story here was the collaboration between law enforcement and the family (kind of blurry lines there) which, all the way to the fbi, allowed the travesty that followed the murders to occur, from the nearly 24 hour "interrogation" of a developementally disabled individual, to evidence tampering, outright lies by the cass county attorney and sherriff's office, and the persecution that still occurs today, in a county that prides itself on the initials of it's "longstanding tradition" harvest festival, the King Korn Karnival. one is forced to consider which longstanding tradition they refer to, illiteracy, or overt racism and hate

                    Reply#9 - Sat Oct 2, 2010 5:10 PM EDT

                    You know what i thought was weird about this case, in the first 10 mins of the episode, when the victims son was speaking about the first encounter with his dead parents he said he picked up the receiver and it was dead. That leads me to believe that the phone line was cut. That is very pre-emptive and i dont think two kids high on cough syrup would have thought or known to cut the lines. WTF?

                      Reply#10 - Sun Oct 3, 2010 3:46 AM EDT

                      Tyler - Sharmon had tried to call using the upstairs phone.  It was off the hook and under her body when Fester shot hier in the face.  That is why the downstairs phone was dead.  The phone lines were not cut.

                        Reply#11 - Mon Oct 4, 2010 10:45 AM EDT

                        Another transcript missing. No transcript for "Taken", "Joran van der Sloot", "Family Portrait", "Dream House Murder", "In Broad Daylight" and now this. What's going on? Seems that Dateline's been slacking off on the transcripts in the past 2 months. Many of us cannot access the videos from work and enjoy reading the transcripts. They used to be posted within a week or less of a broadcast. Why is this demand not getting satisfied anymore??

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                        Reply#12 - Tue Oct 5, 2010 12:07 PM EDT

                        I agree with Hot-In-Miami. Bring back the transcripts! I print them out and read them at lunch break.

                          Reply#13 - Wed Oct 6, 2010 1:32 PM EDT
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