here's keith morrison with " "smoke and mirrors." this, you understand. it wasn't gray, wasn't cold. no flecks of snow to catch the bitter breeze. it was hot and after midnight, september, 2007. so it was, and it was clear and dark and still. and vacant. here where the deep woods fought back against the decaying suburban sprawl. and then nothing was clear at all. >> i never cried this violent cry. >> you're experiencing everything, but it's not true. you're just waiting to wake up. >> it just feels like you're literally in a nightmare. >> narrator: yes, still does. the name, you'll want to remember, is nailah. this is nailah's mother, maria. >> i wanted her to be successful successful, and she was. >> narrator: quite true, as frankly had the rest of them in this big family. this is lehia, the first born. >> we might need a graph or a chart because it's kind of involved. >> narrator: full siblings, half siblings, quarter siblings once removed that sort of thing. the family was very blended. >> to me, it implies that it's something less and i have never fel

here's keith morrison with "secrets in pleasant grove." >> the story you're about to witness is all too human. oh, what people will do to each other. and yet, puzzling. there were these three women. wouldn't have a story to tell without them. two sisters and their aunt. course, might make you der, can you ever really see the truth in the face in the mirror or the face beside you in bed at night? the story begins with a beauty queen. all right, a former beauty queen named michele macneill and she was -- look at this. she was truly lovely. but this is about what happened to michele the year she turned 50, the very last year of her life. though she couldn't possibly have known it. as she contemplated a question a lot of people do as youth fades, plastic surgery. should she or shouldn't she? she answered, for one reason or another, yes, yes, i will. and before long -- >> everything that we thought in our life was just all shattered. >> what happened to michele macneill? what was behind the breathless courtroom, the raw family drama played out in full public view, the hidden sins of -- well,

here is keith morrison. >> when jason bingham thinks of home, what he sees in his mind's eye, it's as much a part of him as breathing, as his own heart. >> it's god's country. you can't see any neighbors as far as you can see. >> faithful horse, good dog and sturdy truck is about all he needed out here. what happened when jason met stacy was -- well, love, brand new, unique. but for them, way out here in god's country, it truly was. haines is a dot, a speck in a grand sweeping landscape near the oregon/idaho border. jason bingham worked at his father's accounting business. stacy was an obstetrics nurse at a nearby hospital. this was the home the binghams loved, and where they imagined they would raise their kids and live for the rest of their lives. >> hi! >> hi! easter morning. we're really late for church. >> it takes each one of them to make us a family. you have sierra, compassionate and loving. megan, who is confident and athletic, and lindsay has been our little jabber jaws. she makes sure everyone stays in and then hunter, who is just a happy-go-lucky 5-year-old. >> oh, yeah. >