Investigators also spoke with a 32-year-old man who worked at a local golf course. He had attacked a 16-year-old near the river the previous year, a misstep, he told detectives, brought on by job stress. When police arrived at his house on Sept. 3, two days before Matthew's body was found, the suspect blurted out, "Is this about Matthew?," according to police reports. But he also seemed to have a strong alibi. He spent the afternoon and evening at a Mets doubleheader with a local civic group. There were plenty of witnesses.

Detectives also talked to Matthew's close friends. Was anyone giving him trouble? Had anyone approached him sexually? Who might do this to him, they asked, according to police reports.

One boy immediately named the neighborhood bully. The 16-year-old boy lived very close to the crime scene, according to police reports, and liked to tease Matthew on the school bus. Maryann Margolies said her father even drove Matthew to school some days to avoid the teenager. Earlier in the summer, according to police reports, he'd been arrested for assaulting another youngster and one acquaintance said that just two weeks before the murder, the teenager had hurt Matthew.

On the night Matthew was discovered dead, detectives grilled the bully for three hours at the police station. Police reports show he waived his Miranda rights and told them he'd help in any way he could, but insisted he had nothing to do with the crime. His family consented to a search of their home, but it yielded nothing. The bully also had a time card from the fast food restaurant where he worked showing he had clocked in at four and clocked out at 10:40 p.m. He took a polygraph test, but the results were inconclusive.

Police also questioned another 16-year-old Valley Boy, a high school senior who had a reputation as a pot dealer, according to police reports. Matthew loathed drugs and there were rumors that he had told police that some boys were growing marijuana by the river. Maryann Margolies said another youth actually reported the crop, but that Matthew was blamed. The mother of one of Matthew's friends, however, told police that she heard George Miazga chastise some boys for drug use and tell them that he and his grandson had turned them in.

The pot dealer was feared by the younger kids in the neighborhood, according to police reports. He hit one boy in the head with a two-by-four, a youngster told police. He liked to set things on fire and fight and owned a knife, other boys told the officers. "He is the sickest, he could've done it," said one youngster, cited in police reports.

The pot dealer was used to questioning from police. Their reports detail how he initially told them that he hadn't seen Matthew all day and was driving his car with a friend in another area of Greenwich when Matthew vanished.

Detectives later found out that the pot dealer's friend had lied about the timing and route of their drive and had coerced another teen into vouching for them, their reports show. When they went back to confront the pot dealer, he refused to cooperate saying he wanted to stay "as far away from the investigation as possible." He also laughed off the offer to take a lie detector test.

As they pursued the bully and the pot dealer, police were also interested in questioning an older married man who had befriended Matthew before his grandfather's death, police reports show. Maryann Margolies told police that this man had given Matthew expensive gifts, including a $75 fishing pole, and spent time fishing with her son. This summer, however, the two seemed to have a falling out which Matthew refused to discuss. She said her son became agitated and uncomfortable whenever she raised the issue.

The man was initially defensive with police, but later he and his wife claimed there was no falling out, just Matthew's sadness at his grandfather's death and disappointment when the couple told him they were probably moving out of the neighborhood. According to police reports, the man said he spent that Friday fishing out of town with his wife although the couple were driving home separately at about the time Matthew vanished. Police had doubts the man, who had a bad back, could have lifted the large rocks found at the crime scene.

Matthew with his grandfather, George Miazga.

Two more suspects were Valley Boys who had gone fishing with Matthew the previous day. The teenagers told detectives Matthew promised to go fishing again Friday, but then never showed at the appointed time. In fact, they said, they had not seen Matthew all day. According to police reports, officers questioned the boys, as they had others, about Matthew's missing rod. One of the boys volunteered that Matthew had sold him a blue rod two weeks earlier for $2, money that was due on the Friday he vanished.

That account immediately raised suspicion among Matthew's family and friends, police records show. One of his closet friends told police Matthew had used the rod for two years and would have never parted with it. His mother says she never saw the rod the boy had but believes it was the one Matthew inherited from his grandfather.

"That pole meant the world to him. It would bring him comfort and he never, never would've sold it," his mother told Courttv.com.

But, the boy with the rod passed a polygraph.