andrea canning: lydic also spoke with tom uss., his wife and john? he wouldn't answer the question directly. that's kind of strange. he kept saying about, i have to take care of the kids. andrea canning: officer lydic decided to keep tom uss on her list of possible suspects, not that they were sharing this information with anyone. the police were playing this case pretty close to the vest. when a murder investigation in a rural community begins, the release of information often comes in drips. so it wasn't a big-city murder. so it wasn't a big-city press conference about what happened. andrea canning: but at one point, the police did offer information to calm the public's fear. and i think the first press information, if i'm not mistaken, locally, in blairsville, was a statement from the chief of police in blairsville, saying that the people of blairsville shouldn't be worried. this is an isolated incident. and so i took that to mean, ok, they-- they know that john was targeted, so they must know more. andrea canning: did police k