the main supplier, alexander claussen, was years in prison, while cole matenaer got a year in county jail and 15 years probation.e to prosecuting the three students, there were more difficult decisions to be these teenagers had never been e and seemed to have promising futures. but like the adults, they too facing murder charges. county attorney pete orputt. >> i don't want to scare kids. bullies scare people. i just let them know if you do this, you can expect justice. firm about it. >> so when investigators said they were going to throw the book at these kids? >> yeah, i was for it.e for it? >> i was for it. yes, absolutely. yeah, they make mistakes. so from that aspect of it, i can understand both sides.ring part of it is that i am tara's dad, and they made a mistake that killed my daughter. they have to take responsibility for that., it never came to that. inside the county attorney's office, negotiations got l three teens reached plea agreements. they pleaded guilty to drug sale charges in juvenile court and o a combination of parole, fines and one weekend >> you end up negotiat

. >> reporter: the next day, 18-year-old cole matenaer was arrested with more than thirty doses of the same drug tara took. ready to be sold. >> so, he's got more of the stuff. he's peddling it. he's selling it. >> not only does he have more of the stuff, he has more of the stuff knowing that someone has >> reporter: detectives later sat down with cole and his attorney, and cole confirmed what authorities already suspected. he was lying to his clients, telling them the drugs were lsd because he knew they wouldn't want synthetics. >> because people don't like that stuff. they think it's, they know it's bad, you know? >> reporter: police were about to find out exactly what killed tarait ad nd-- discover that it was a problem that went way beyond their quiet suburb. >>> coming up. many synthetic drugs are packaged to seem completely harmless. but -- >> they're not regulated, they're not consistent, they're >> what exactly is this stuff? winter can be tough on our bodies. 90 days juggling hectic schedules. 40 heavy comfort meals. no wonder our digestive systems can act up. the frequency of

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