pam hobbs and her husband, terry, among them. 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'd 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 shoelaces. >> i run up there and one look at my ex-husband and i knew it was stevie. and i hit the ground screaming, god, no. >> almost immediately, word spread that these murders were 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'd been trying to let the police know there's been groups of teenagers out there practicing satanic rituals and things like that. >> satanic killing? an idea not so farfet

pam hobbs and her husband, terry, among them. pe 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'd 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 shoelaces. >> i run up there and one look at my ex-husband and i knew it was stevie and i hit the ground screaming, god, no. >> almost immediately, word spread that these murders were the work of the devil. >> that was the first thing everybody started saying, that it was a ritualistic killing, satanic killing. i overheard people saying they'd been trying to let the police know there's been groups of teenagers out there practicing satanic rituals and things like that. >> satanic killing? an idea not so farfetched for the time. thi

. >> pam hobbs is stevie branch's mother. >> based on what the police told you, they were 100% certain these were the guilty guys. >> uh-huh. and so believing in my justice system and believing that the police who are to protect and serve i really felt like they had the right ones and i wanted to do something to them. >> what did you want to do? >> i wanted to bash their head up against the wall, kick their face in. i was just so angry. if i could have got ahold of them i think i probably could have shredded them with my bare hands. >> you wanted to kill them. >> i did. >> but while jessie may have confessed, he soon took it back and steadfastly refused to testify against jason and damien. ultimately, jessie was tried separately, and ultimately, it would be his own words that would convict him. >> he hit him with his fist and bruised them up real bad. then jason turned around and hit steve branch. >> okay. >> and started doing the same thing. then the other one took off, michael moore took off running, so i chased him and grabbed him and hold him. >> jessie's confession was played for