It's a funny old expression, isn't it?

Fish or cut bait.

But everybody knows.

Everybody knows what it means.

Time to make a decision.

Charge ahead or walk away.

Sort of thing keeps a prosecutor up at night.

There was Matt Livers who had confessed to killing his aunt and uncle,

Wayne and Charmin Stock, and then unconfessed.

Convictable?

Maybe.

Confessions speak loud in court.

But then they had to release Nick Sampson, the cousin who obviously didn't take part, and Jessica Reed,

who most certainly was in on the murders with her boyfriend Greg Fester, refused a sweet deal

to testify against either Nick or Matt. And now, the CSI chief who'd overseen the crime

scene, David Kofod, had been accused of planting evidence.

Oh, and yes, there was that awkward business about the sheriff's office, failing for months to tell Matt's attorneys that he had recanted his confession.

I mean, I've been making answers, though, left and night.

And now it truly was time to act.

One way or the other.

Fisher cut bait.

I'm Keith Morrison, and this is Murder in the Moonlight, a podcast from Dateline.

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