. . amanda covered brine's disappearance for the chicago tribune. >> he was excited about christmas. there was no indication for him to run away. >> his father an electrician says his youngest son was always by his side. >> he was an entrepreneur, started making money early on shoveling snow. >> and he loved val's food. gary was a co-owner at the store and brian was his favorite employee. >> he was sort but you never have no idea how smart he was. if you tell him to do one thing one time, this is what i want you to do, next time he will tell you what to do. >> he was a go getter. >> there were more people like

be a beautiful future for america. >> in jns burg, everybody knew the care ricks, a working class irish cathic family with 14 children, brian the 11th >> they said when they got married, god give ugs as many kids as you want us to have. we'll take care of them. >> describe them. very nice people. they didn't have the best clothes or the bes school supplies. but they had a lot of love. >> that december 20th was brian's day off but he went to val's looking for a coworker passing his broroer eddy also a sfok boy on the way. >> eddy was going out to get the carts from the parking lot and brian was walng into the store. he never saw his brother after that. >> the next day his mother received a call. >> she went upstairs, he wasn't in his bed.

something wrong. >> within days johnsbsbg was reeling in disbelief. this is not the town where people went missing. >> johnsburg is a family church oriented community. to have something like this happen is just very hard to take in. >> supporters gathered at a vigil for brian. his mother the strange matriarch visibly shaken. >> horror, the torture of not knowing, the torture of not knowing where he is or what's happened. that's every parents' worst nightmare and i guess we're living it. >> as weeks passed no one knew if brian was dead or alive. >> the johnsburg police were involved, illinois state police became involved, the fbi became involved. people were searching the places where brian might go. they had the search dogs, they had psychics coming to terry's front door and try and tell her

>> val's food posted a $2000 reward. i think some people would loo at that saying, you're putting up 25,000 dollars for somebody who works for them, not a family member but an employee. >> they needed t. they didn't have the money. we were desperate to try and find what happened to him. >> two of johnsburgs most well-known families, friends for nely 25 years, almost half of the care rick kids had worked at val's.s. >> i understanan you have a picture of him in your wawaet. >> yeah, definitely. >> you're still carrying this picture of a man who worked for you as a stockb. why do you carry this picture with you? >> because to me he was like a son. >> an early break revealed blood evidence in and around the grocery store produce cooler, news no one wanted to hear,

bloody fingerprint, brian's blood. what heartrteaking mystery didid the family's grocery store hold. >> what was your reaction when they found the blood. >> immediately it was like who did it. everybody was on edge. >> before long police zero in on a 19-year-old. here apparent to the family business. >> are you kidding me? >> you guys were shocked at that point. >> yes. completely shocked. >> mario is really one of the nicest kind intelligent funny just a sweetheart. >> but cops were beginning to develolo a more sinister profile. as brian's father would share with a local reporter. >> mario allegedly was selling dope and i think he coerced my son into working for him. and somehow, yeah, things got out of hand. >> there are rumors that there were some things going on at the

have been going on. >> tell me about that theory. the story is that mario was selling drugs and that he would use some of the kids from the grocery store, like brian, to sell the drugs. and brian being the sweet kid he is, wouldn't always collect the money. >> authorities were convinced that the boy who freely gave away pot was a victim of foul play. they believe he was killed over a $400 or $500 drug debt he owed mario. >> police began to dig into mario a little bit and they believed he was selling drugs. >> i think maybe he smoked pot. i think maybe himim and his friends bought it and sold it to each other. i mean, you're talking about a very small amount. >>ut with no eyewitnesses, no physical evidence tying mario to the crime scene or even a body, the investigation grew cold and so did the bond between the care ricks and the ka sar ros.

sour and then one day my dad say brbrn's mother had comee in the store and she kind of turned her back to him when he approached her to say hello. that was the last time she ever spoke to him. >> but for mario, life was moving on. >> mario anthony. >> here he is receiving his degree in finance from illinois state university, three years after brian's disappearance. mario joined the family grocery, worked as a manager and helped build the business. >> that was not the only store that he was going to ve. i was always goioi to be two stores and three stores and four stores. >> that grand plan would never happen. mario's world was about to collapse around him. a break in the case. this stockboy shane lamb would change everything with a tail of violence in the produce cooler the night brian vanished. >> i hit brian a few times, he was bleeding from his mouth. i thought i knocked him out.

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disgusting rumors that he was cut up in our meat department. then it started becoming that our family was involved in some kind of crime family. >> the fbi investigated and dismissed rumors of a mob hit. this case may have remained an unsolved mystery if not for this man. >> the assistant state's attorney michael combs. >> also known as nick combs. a tough prosecutored determined to find justice for the carrick family. prosecutor combs finds a key witness. his name, shane lamb. >> who is shane lamb? >> shane lamb, he's got a criminal history. he grew u rough. i think he's a very tragic character in all of this. >> a stockboy at val's who worked alongside brian and mario. a five-time felon with a rap sheet that included attempted murder at just 14.

anything about brian's disappearance to authorities. now eight years later in jail facing up to 12 years on drug charges, he was ready to talk. but first he wanted a deal and so did prosecutors. >> shane lamb is given immunity from the offense of murder and voluntary homicide. >> with this deal, shane escaped all charges related to brias death and a reduced drug sentence. all he had to do to get the deal, tell his story. and that led police to mario. >> what exactly did mario tell you? >> pretty much talk to brian, intimidate him into getting the money. >> how were you to intimidate him? >> talk to him. he never said kill him or anything like that. >> a controversial deal awarded to man who admits he was the likely killer and mario the

>> mario knew what he was doing as bringing shane lamb in using him as the tool and the muscle to get what he wanted. >> shane was off that night at a part getti high. he says mario called him to come to the store. brian owed him money and he wanted it back. mario wanted shane to talk to him. it was time for him to pay up. >> i went over there, told brian what's up wi the money you owe him, pay him some of the money back. we got to arguing. mario said it was getting too loud. go in the produce cooler. >> shane said he demanded the money from brian but brian resisted shane lost his temper. things tournament violent. >> i hit brian a couple of times, he was bleeding from his mouth and fell out. >> where is mario when you're doing th? >> right in the doorway. >> not sure if brian was dead or alive, shane said mario told him to leave and he would handle it.

serial felon, police arrest mario charging him with brian's murder. a bitter suite victory for bill carrick. a moment his wife didn't live to see. for the casciaro family, it was a moment of utter disbelief. >> i wanted justice for the carricks, but they got the wrong guy. >> combs was convinced that mario and shane acts a duo. he charged mario with murder with intimidation, he insisted it didn't matter that mario never touched brian or ordered him hurt. he was guilty setting into motion the events that killed him by just uttering the words, talk to him. >> had you ever heard of this kind of charge before? >> no. it's very rare. >> had it ever been used before? >> to my understanding it hadn't.

after 12 hours jurors return deadlocked, 11 to 1 in favor of the prosecution. combs explain. >> sometimes laypeople struggle with one person being accountable for the actions of another. >> when you learned it with us a hung jury, what were you thinking? >> frustrated. >> prosecutors vowed to retry mario. in just over a year they were back in court. more determined than ever. hammering away at their key witness, shane lamb, calling him mario's enforcer, the one who carried out his dirty work. >> the prosecutor said don't bring mother teresa to a shakedown. bring a bad ass like shane lamb. >> in closing arguments, prosecutors branding the pair mean little delinquents. >> this is a narrative the prosecutors are building so that people can see mario as some dangerous nefarious figure.

stick to the facts, here's his dna, his blood, the time line. they didn't have any of that. >> no. >> so they had to dirty him up a little bit. >> prosecutor's clever strategy worked. man who didn't say a word throughout two murder trials decided to speak only to 2020. but why not. >> did you kill brian carrick? stay with us. these dogs shed like crazy. it's like being inside of a snow globe. it takes an awful lot of time to keep the house clean. i don't know what to do. (doorbell) what's this? swiffer sweeper and dusters. this is nice and easy boys. it really sticks to it. it fits in all the tight spaces. this is really great. does that look familiar to you? i'no longer the butler, i am just one of the guys. big news! the new sprint lte plus network is faster than verizon and at&t... based on data from the world's foremost authority on independent measurement.

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>> the college grate waj, now a convicted murderer, shackled and chained to the floor. >> i'm not a criminal. nobody in my family has ever been in handcuffs. i'm the fist. and that includes extended family as well. >> brian carrick's family believes that you belong here. >> if allegations are repeated over and over and over again for say seven years, you begin to believe that it's a fact. >> the car riks believe that you know where brian's body is. >> it's sad that they think that. it's sad that they would ever think something like that. and i really hope that we find brian. >> mario says that brian carrick was a loyal employee and they had a good relationship. >> he was a good guy. good family. he worked hard. one of my favorite coworkers. >> his memories of that fateful night are still vivid. just five days before christmas the store packed with shoppers, filling their carts with all of the makings of christmas dinner.

showed up that evening around 6:30 asking for another stockboy, robert render. >> and brian was looking for render and asked me if i had seen him, where is this guy. i paged him and that was the last time i seen him. >> after seeing brian, mario says he picked up a pizza nearby, sharing it with employees in a break room. clear across the other side of the store from the produce cooler. that's his alibi. mario says he helped close the store as usual at 8:00. both the defense and prosecutors believe brian was murdered before closing time. >> did you kill brian carrick? >> absolutely not. >> are you responsible in any way for his death? >> no he calls calling shane lamb to the store to talk to brian. >> this is important because police believe you call shame lamb. did you ever call him in. >> no. we actually gave them my phone records and showed them there was no call.

to him, has an altercation with brian carrick, punches him a few times, lay him out, you tell shane go, i'll take care of this. any truth to that? >> not at all. i didn't see shane in the build that evening. why would i say let he take care of this for you. i don't know the kid. let me take care of a murder for you. be serious, you know what i mean. >> he questions why anybody would believe he would take a murder rap for shane lamb who has only worked at the store for two months. >> how could he get himself in a position where he's willing to do this for someone else wh. >> what about the witnesses who testified that mario sold pot? >> did you ever sell drugs. >> there were times when i was smoking pot that i would sell people pot out of my personal sfash stash. it was a criminal enterprise. >> did brian ever sell pot for you?

>> did brian ever owe you money for selling pot? >> no. so the claim of him owing you $400, $500 -- >> that's all made it. they made it seem like it was a huge criminal enterprise. they went so far to say i was a kingpin. that's signicantly different from smoking weed with your friends. >> there is one decision that haunts him. >> you didn't testify at your trial. how do you feel about that decision now? >> i think it was the wrong decision. i wanted to do it at the time. i was just advised not to. >> guidance from his attorney that day may have cost him his freedom. >> the verdict, what's going through your mind as you're waiting for the verdict in the second trial? >> what is taking so long? what are they thinking about? what could they possibly have found to be credible that they've seen? >> did you think at that point you were going home with your family? >> yeah. sure did.

a guilty verdict, mayory's mother's outrage caught my local news cameras. >> my son is innocent. >> his family sobbed. his father wailed. mario was confident the whole time. then he dropped his head. he was shocked that he would never be convicted. there's no physical evidence. it was heart wrenching. it was as if mario had died. >> can you make it 26 years in here? >> i don't want to. i mean ii have to, i will find a way but i don't want to. i don't want to sit every day thinking about how did i get her. because it's -- i don't have the answers. you know what i mean? >> but next, a woman who thinks sheoes have the answers. enter mayory's new attorney. >> what is on this door. >> who is convinced she knows who killed brian and exactly how it was done. stay with us. hey man! hey peter. (unenthusiastic)

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after mario was sentenced to 26 years for murder he says he didn't commit, his family vowed to fight on until heas freed. >> there was no physical evidce, no dna, no witnesses and no motive. >> when you are innocent, you are going to fight until the very end becauseou know you're innocent. and we're going to fight until the end because we're 100% behind him. >> and that's why they hired this gladiator to appeal his case. a high powered attorney with a reputation for overturning

evidence and uncovers what she lieves are secrets long tucked away inside family's groesry store. >> i believe we have an excellent case that will be reversed outright.. >> s s believes the evidencee leads nono to mario or not to shane lamb but another stockboy, rob render, an early suspect in the case who brian accused of stealing alcohol from the store and the one brian was looking for at the day he vanished. >> what do we know about rob render? >> another troubled soul. he had a lot of problems, a lot of drugs. >> for zelnar, the case begins with the physical evidence, the blood at the crime scene. rob render's blood was there and his was the only blood ever found aside from brian's. >> we kno that rob render and brn carrick had an altercation because both of their blood is right there at the crime scene. >> for her, the crime scene

look at thes photo exhibits while brian's blood is i the hallway leading to the cooler, rob render's bloody fingerprint is on the cooler door handle. and inside the door, moref rob rembereder's blood. when pice questioned rob, he insisted he wasn't there. >> i didn't do anything, i don't know anything. >> they asked rob, if he wasn't there, why was his blood? >> i cut my finger, who knows. maybe i bit my nails so bad because i do that it bled a little bit. >> there's no way that this amount of blood could have been left my rob render by biting his nails. you'd have to be a mophiliac. yoyod have to have alotting disorder. >> and zr zelnar there is motive. brian turned in rob for stealing booze and ridiculed him at work for being weak. where was rob that night. >> zelnar contends that other employees say that rob was

hours but according to rob -- >> i was probably stoned that night. i'm sure. i was 17 years old. that's all i did. maybe i was stuck in the aisle somewhere. maybe i went on break. i'm telling you, i never left the stor >> but maybe he knows more than he's telling. that's what police thought. he told a friend there was a fight in the cooler and that led them to the crime scene that's what led us to the cooler. and led us to the blood. >> nobody else said that, that there was a fight in the cooler. >> a detail zelnar believes only the killer would know. she says rob also tried to cover his tracks, mopping up the produce cooler that night and being on the scene the next morning when co-owner jerry ka sar ro noticed the pool of red-tinted water. >> what did you think that circular stain was from? >> at the time i thought it was

i got a little hot under my collar and said you clean it up. it was rob render. >> and zelnar has an witness. anan employee at the grocery store when brian disappeared who could rock the prosecution's case with explosive claims. >> what did the new witness have to say? >> the new witness said that render made a statement to him just a week before brian disappeared that he was very angry with brian and that he was going to jump him with a weapon. >> that matches with her version of events. zelnar says the fatal plow wasn't from a punch as shane lamb confessed but from a knife. >> tell me what you believe happened. >> i believe that render comes up behind him and cuts his throat and in the process cuts himself. and brian starts falling forward and render grabs the door. that's why his thumb print is on the door.

then he scrapes against the boxes. that's why the transferred blood is there, the attack is in the hallway. >> unfortunately for you the evidence points at you. almost all of it points at you, rob. >> police charge render with concealing brian's murder. but within a month, drop the case believing he wasn't involved. rob render never told his story in court. he overdosed on a cocktail of heroin and cocaine and died months before mario's second trial. rob's older sister passionately defends her older brother claiming he would never hurt anyone. >> the premise that my brother could have possibly killed brian over $30 or over him telling on him or anything is ridiculous to me. my brother having an explosive temper is ridiculous. >> and she accuses kathleen zelnar of scapegoating her dead brother.

about it and he said he wasn't there. he didn't know what happened. >> i'm sure prosecutors say this is a classic case of blaming the dead guy. that's meaning ls. doesn't mean dead guys didn't commit murders. the only person that really dislikes brian carrick is render. the only person that owes money to brian carrick is render. the only person that's ever described wanting to jump him with a weapon is renenr. and the o oy person in that back hallway was render. >> there was one man we wanted to talk to. remember shane lamb, one of the stockboys along with rob render, mario k sar ro and brian carrick. where did we find him? in jail on an unrelated charge. he sat down exclusively with 2020 with a stunning confession. >> i didn't have anything to do with this. he doesn't deserve to have in prison.

prison because of your testimony. >> that's right. >> what you want to say about your testimony today in. >> all of it was false. every single thing, the state's attorney set it up. >> he's talking about assistant state's attorney michael combs saying he forced him to place mario at the scene. shane says his back was against the wall. i was arrested for cocaine charges. my offer was 12 years. they said they would be indicted for murder if i didn't cooperate. >> here he is giving a statement but according to shane, what you don't see before this point, before the cameras roll, he makes allegations that combs sat himown for an hour without his lawyer telling him what to say point by point. >> on december 20th, 2002 mario karviar ro never called you to say come to the store and talk to brian carrick because he owes me money. >> never.

>> you never punched him two o three times? >> never. >> mayoro never said to you get out of here, i'll take care of this? >> never np never happened. >> explosive allegations, especially if true. but there's a problem. shane lamb has a long history of lying, along with a lengthy rap sheet. >> you're a five-time felon spend a lot of you life in and out of jail. can you undererand that p pple say how can we believe him. >> they believed me enough to use my testimony to put him away but now they're going to say iep lying. >> last october in a statement prosecutor combs denied coaching shane lamut of the presence of his lawyer calling it unworthy of belief, untrue and farfetched. >> i have nothing to gain. the onl thing that could happen to me right now is they charge me for murder. i have everything to lose now. >> is that why you think people should believe me? >> 100% they should believe me. it's the truth.

defense of mario. >> it dramatically changes it. he was the only person responsible for marioeing convicted. >> but for shane lamb one thing is clear. he says he's willing to spend the rest of his life in prison so that mario doesn't have to. >> he's in maynard right now for 26 years and i just feel l ke they let somebody make up testimony to get him locked up r 26 years and he's sitting there and he can't do anything about it. i'm not going to have that on my chest anymore. >> i'm happy that he's finally telling the truth. i wish he would have done it at the trial so that way i wouldn't have had to be subjected to this. this changes your whole life. >> but will that newest confession set mario free? the shocking words o the illinois appellate court decision. >> i think it says that the prosecutors overreached extraordinarary to get this conviction.

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it's picking up one. >> we're so happy. and we couldn't wait to get there and get him out. >> we all can't stop smiling. >> mario casciaro is getting released. and this bus load of believers will escort him home. >> what was it like when you heard the news? >> i just jumped with joy. >> really? >> he was running down the aisles at the store. he's coming home, he's coming home screaming down the aisles. >> you started celebrating early. >> and who could blame him. >> when mario is finally released after serving nearly four years, a father seems content to spend the next four years locked in an embrace with his son. the family had little hope of a heartfelt reunion like this until 2020 cast a national spotlight on mario's story last year.

court ruled on a brief presented by mario's crusading lawyer, kathleen zellner. it blasted the prosecution's ca calling their theory i reasonable, improbable and unsatisfactory. even adding that rob render could not easily be dismissed. conviction. >> i think the decision is airtight. the court saw it just like we this is complete vindication that he is innocent. anyone who reads this opinion, that's what the court ncluded. >> it was a slam d dk for mario's legal team. >> he'e' innocent. never should have been charged with this. they didn't get the right killer. and it's a kallos l failure on th part of the system. >> finally did it. it's all behind us now. let's look forward and let's move on. >> amen.

lived under a cloud of suspicions. his pleas of innocence igngned. mario couldn't wait to get off prison grounds. >> okay. >> go home. >> he invited our cameras to join him on his freedom ride home. >> there's nothing that compares to today. it's just breathtaking. >> even mario's customary reserve gave way to chattiness as he spoke philosophically about his time in lockup. >> what was it like, spending almost three years in one of the roughestst maximum s surity prisons i i the country? >> i was lucky. they never got to imprison my mind. i just never allowed it to happen. my@physical body was impjisoned but i never let my mind be there. >> he says he read a lot, kept to himself and stayed positive despite the odds. >> i talked to major, he had been here 20 years saying i'm only the third person he's ever

it's like winning the lottery. >> a salute. >> it was a night for celebration and a moment for the man of the hour to come to grips with the time lost. >> family members here you're seeing for the first time. >> absolutely. everybody is reproducing. >> so what's the thing that makes you smile right now? >> you're looking at it. good times. >> family. >> yeah, family, love. >> goods times brain carrick's family was robbed of ever knowing. >> are you still interested in fiep finding out what really happened? >> without a doubt. how could this have even happened. >> what about the carrick family? >> we've lost brian,' we're not going to get him back. the only thing -- the only thing i can hope for is that i'll meet him again some place.

yeararn december of 2014, before the court's reversal. other members of the carrick family declined our request for an interview. >> where did he go? people don't disappear. people just don't disappear. that's the part -- that's why we're talking about it. it's so unfair to that family that they still don't really know. >> i think what the carrick family needs to do is study the opinion. because the person who committed this crime and the person w w helped dispose of brian carrick's body have not been held accountable. and there is nothing that's been gained by having the wrong person locked up. they should ph hard to have this case solved and to figure out exactly what happened. the forensic evidence is right there. it tells the story. >> that's my mom. she's the type of person that would hang a baby picture of me in my own room. see in i was cute then.

>> i wanted to keep mario's room like if he was here because every time i clean the house, mario's room will be the first one i do. >> jus having this much space, how about that. my whole cell was one third of the size of this room. and i had two adults living in there. so this is just -- for me now, i guess ii appppciate it more. >> his incarceration inspiring a newfound appreciation for freedom. >> just being able to drive around feels so wonderful. i can go left, go right. i can do so many things i wasn't able to do three months ago and it feels wonderful. >> there was a trip back to val's grocery store with no shortage of famiar faces. >> hey. >> all righty. >> why running the family business was once seen as a given, marioioas made a new career choice.

in criminal defense because i believe my vantage point is extremely unique. >> the man who did not speak at his own trial decided to use his voice and his story to benefit others who have been wrongly convicted. and even as he looks forward, mario will not forget where he's been, recently helping to stock these care packages provided by a local church for inmates across the state. >> it felt so humbling to be able to help people. >> in a family where food is love, mario's mom has outdone herself with good reason. >> we just haven't had a lot to celebrate. we haven't celebrated christmas or ns or birthdays or anything. we didn't feel right celebrating without you. >> exactly. >> welcome home. mario's new year isn't complelely carefree. the illinois state's attorney

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>> and i'm elizabeth vargas. have a good night. here'g to a healthy and happy new year.saturday night. current temperatures are in the teens and 20s across the map. this is a pretty small deviation from yesterday with our temperature difference at about 5 degrees or less. our local radar is quiet as can be with no clclds currently cruising through. the dayplanner reveals that we're in for another cold night as temperatures sink toward 10 degrees early tomorrow

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