in day light they discovered their own special place, the remote forest clearing in a place called belton bridge park. though park is much too grand a word for the little pull-out beside the chatahoochie river. they were richard and stacy sheck, it was their love of scouting that won the admiration of greg. >> how did you meet them? >> both of our sons were cub scouts. >> with kids. boys especially. they were naturals. >> stacy was a ball of energy. full of ideas. would literally drive us to do things. >> the go-getter. >> the gogo-getter. we jokingly called her mama spread sheet. because everything she did had to be laid out in a spread sheet. >> reporter: what a planner. >> she was. >> reporter: scouting is how bill fanning got to go them too. >> richard was a good motivator. i saw how much fun he was having. i kind of asked if i could tag along. got involved with scouts myself. >> reporter: stacy was a den leader for the cub scout pack. was she pretty good with the kids too? awe she was pretty good with the kids too. she was. she and richded are richard worked well together. as they di

belton, helped shanna develop her passion. as shanna puts it, "she taught me that it was possible to read and write my way into another life." that's a pretty good description of education in general. today, ms. peeples passes that same lesson on to her teachers -- on to her students. in their writing circles students pour their personal stories onto the page. and she tells them, "everyone has a voice, everyone has a story worth sharing." they discover that their experiences aren't so singular -- that whether they're an ethiopian refugee or they've never set foot out of texas, they're not so different and they're not so alone, as a consequence. shanna works hard to earn and keep their trust, and help them find new ways to grow -- academically and emotionally -- to rise above their present and to reach for their future. "in a sense, i sell hope," she says. i love that line. [laughter] "in a sense, i sell hope." and and her students are hungry for hope. most kids are hungry for hope. since shanna arrived at palo duro five years

. >> i'm at this little park on belton bridge road. my name is stacy schoek. >> he's been shot. >> he's been what? >> he's been shot. he is dead. >> ben franklin of the hall county sheriff's department got the call. there he was valentine's night all but groping, as he drove a dark road by the river. >> it is in the middle of nowhere. that creates a special kind of dark you can't appreciate until you are in the middle of it. >> reporter: detective franklin is an experienced man. and this? >> this was one of a few cases where the more i dug, the less sense that it made. >> reporter: no nothing made sense about this. >> a murder so sudden and so brutal. was it a robbery gone bad? the investigation was just beginning. when we come back. tire tracks in the mud that belong to neither richard nor stacy. >> you could see richard's impressions pass over those. then you can see those pass back over richard 's. that let us know the vehicle was here before richard got here and likely left after he was dead. >> it had to be the killer. recommend t