it would make sense from the very first day that matthew podolak woke up with the pain in his back. and after what happened in the hospital a couple of months later, nothing made sense after that. [noise] god knows there were accusations. well yes, plenty of those. and a brother, mark, from whom the stories, the mystery became a kind of obsession. >> it's had quite an effect on me over the past seven years. >> the story of what happened to matt podolak, was one of those of, well, you be the judge. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> let's begin in the spring of 2006. matt was 31 years old. maybe more than ever, he was loving the intense male roughness of amateur hockey. he was number 10. and he was good at it. he even managed to keep all his teeth. >> he started to take it up when he was in high school. and that was really one of his loves. >> mark podolak was just a little older. a little more academically accomplished than his kid brother baby. but mark loved him. loved him for what he was. >> he was a good kid. i mean he didn't give into any trouble. to be honest with you, my dad is a cop. so, he started t