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In Dateline’s newest podcast, Keith Morrison takes us to a quiet farmhouse in a small town on America’s Great Plains, where Sharmon and Wayne Stock and their big and loving family have worked the land for generations. But in the wee hours of the night, just hours after an Easter celebration, the couple is shot to death in their own home. Investigators think they’ve caught the killers, until they discover a gold ring on the farmhouse floor that turns the case around completely. Reminiscent of Truman Capote’s masterpiece, “In Cold Blood,” the Stout murder case reveals how slippery the pursuit of truth can be. And how things that seem certain…are not.