On the weekend of July 4th 1982 Canadian teenager Bruce Curtis visits his schoolfriend Scott Franz in New Jersey. That weekend Scott's abusive stepfather is shot and killed. So is his mother. Five days later the boys are arrested. Scott Franz cooperates with the prosecution and pleads guilty to the murder of his stepfather. He receives the minimum 20 year sentence for his crime. Curtis, on the testimony of Franz, is convicted of aggravated manslaughter. He receives the maximum 20 year sentence. Bruce Curtis claims to this day that his rifle fired accidently. What really happened on that fateful day in July?