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Alex and Derek King were just 12 and 13 years old

when they confessed to the bludgining death of their father, but did family friend Ricky

Chavez play a role in this brutal murder.

The young boy's confession was called into question after it was discovered that Ricky is a convicted pedophile who was after Alex.

I'm Vinny Politan and welcome to the Court TV podcast. This week we're diving deeper

into this case with an audio edition of our original series

Accomplice to Murder with Vinny Polytan which takes a closer look at trials and

verdicts that may not be as clear-cut as initially thought.

This is the Court TV podcast with Vinny Polytan. neighbor sees the house on fire. He was expecting to find a man and his two sons,

but what he found was a dead man.

There's blood on a lampshade. There's blood nearby. So he died very violently.

After Terry King's body was discovered in the house, people realized his boys were missing.

I was in my office the morning after the murder when I got a

call from the Sheriff's Department telling me the boys had confessed to the murder.

Finding this no book prompts police to look into Rick Chavez's background. We have to take the blame for him.

It's real simple.

They killed him.

They confessed that they killed him.

She wanted to keep Alex and he wanted to get rid of Terry King.

It just seemed so convenient for them to blame Ricky Chavez. Tonight I'm in Contonment, Florida, a rural town in the Florida panhandle, near Pensacola and the Alabama border. The town is just a few streets wide,

but back in 2002, it became known for one of Florida's most notorious murders

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