Reid was a former honors student who fell in love with Fester, who had a history of hot-wiring cars and burglary.

A young couple was in custody, believed to have stolen that truck as part of a multi-state crime spree: 17-year-old Jessica Reid and her boyfriend 19-year-old Gregory Fester. Seventy phone calls later, Gabig had discovered that the ring belonged to a man named Ryan in Wisconsin, but it had been stolen, along with his red pick-up truck, two days before the murder. This woman was just there cleaning out the office,' she said.Ī day later, and the ring might never have been traced.

'When I called, it was their last day in the office. Gabig was able to trace the ring to a company in New York State that had just gone out of business. 'The inscription is pretty unique because it's on the outside of the ring,' Gabig said. It was a minor loose end that would ultimately turn the case upside down.Ĭhristine Gabig, a young investigator from the Douglas Crime Lab, set out to trace the gold ring found in the murdered couple's kitchen, which bore an inscription - 'Love always, Cori and Ryan.' It didn't belong to Wayne or Sharmon Stock or any of their friends - and it didn't belong to Livers or Sampson either. The case was made - and Livers and Sampson were charged with murder.īut there was this one unresolved detail: a golden ring found on the kitchen floor in the murder house. Kofoed went into the car Livers said he had used to commit the crime and - although earlier processing of the car had turned up nothing - found one single drop of blood from the crime scene.

Slay Me by Jessica Wayne