we've reached out to both terry hobbs and his attorney, ross sampson, and both have declined to speak with them in 2007, when the dna results were first announced. is it possible, mr. hobbs, that that was your hair? >> sure. it was his son, steven branch, who was murdered, and he's had to deal with this for the last 15 years. >> is there anything that you feel comfortable telling me? >> you live with this every day. and then to have your friends and neighbors look at you and think, is there something else there? that's -- that hurts. >> terry hobbs has never been named a suspect in this case. and authorities stand by their convictions. but his ex-wife, pam, stevie's mother, doesn't know what to believe anymore. do you believe that any of those three young men are guilty? >> at this point, no, i don't. >> you think three innocent men are behind bars? >> i do. >> do you believe your ex-husband could have done that? >> i don't want to believe that, no. i lived with the man another 14, 15 years after my son and if it came out that he was the one that actually committed this crime, i'm goi

we've reached out to both terry hobbs and his attorney ross sampson and both have declined to speak. were first announced. is it possible, mr. hobbs, that that was your hair? >> sure. it was his son, steven branch, who was murdered, and he's had to deal with this for the last 15 years. >> is there anything that you feel comfortable telling me? >> you live with this every day. and then to have your friends and neighbors look at you and think, is there something else there? that's -- that hurts. >> terry hobbs has never been named a suspect in this case. and authorities stand by their convictions. but his ex-wife pam, stevie's mother, doesn't know what to believe anymore. do you believe that any of those three young men are guilty? >> at this point, no, i don't. >> you think three innocent men are behind bars? >> i do. >> do you believe your ex-husband could have done that? >> i don't want to believe that, no. i lived with the man another 14, 15 years after my son and if it came out that he was the one that actually committed this crime, i'm going to fall face first, i know that. but i

pam hobbs and her husband, terry, among them.ttle 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 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 ti