pam hobbs and her husband terri among them. held little hope for her son stevie branch. >> i told terry, i said, he's dead. i said i'll never see him alive again. and i was crying. and he said, no, pam, don't say that. it's going to be all right. we're going to find him. >> terry hobbs was right. they did find stevie. but pam was right, too. she would never see her son alive again. a shoe. two bikes. and stevie branch with his two friends, christopher byers and michael moore. the boys were nude and bound with their own shoe laces. >> i run up there and one look at my husband and i knew it was stevie. and i hit the ground screaming "god, no". >> almost immediately word spread that these murders were the the work of the devil. >> that was the first thing that everybody started saying, that it was a ritualistic killing, satanic killing. i overheard people saying that they've been trying to let the police know that there's been groups of teenagers out there practicing satanic rituals and things like that. >> satanic killing? an idea