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DRAPER - It was Brookes Colby Shumway's chance to come clean about how and why he stabbed his 14-year-old friend to death during a sleepover at the victim's Sandy home seven years ago.
But during his first parole hearing since the January 2000 slaying of Christopher Ray, Shumway told yet another story.
''He came on to me . . . sexually,'' Shumway told hearing officer Kent Jones on Thursday in a voice devoid of emotion. ''I lost my temper.''
When it was her turn to speak, Ray's mother, Debra Gette, could barely contain her anger.
"He's nothing but a liar and a cold-blooded murderer," Gette said. "Brookes, I hope you rot in hell!"
A decision from the parole board could take six weeks, but Jones said he would recommend that Shumway spend at least 10 more years behind bars for the Jan. 23, 2000, slaying.
An autopsy showed Ray was stabbed 39 times, with a butcher knife and a steak knife.
Shumway - who was 15 at the time - told police several versions of what occurred, including that Ray initially attacked him with the butcher knife, and that Ray cut his own throat by falling on the knife and had somehow stabbed himself in the back.
Shumway suggested that Ray was upset because Shumway was winning at a zombie-killing video game.
But in a jail journal, Shumway claimed Ray's mother and 18-year-old sister had a role in the killing.
When Ray "flipped out and grabbed a knife," his mother tried to stop the attack and his sister "grabbed a knife and stabbed him," Shumway wrote.
In another entry, Shumway wrote: "What made me blow up is from about 3rd grade to now I've been picked on . . . like people would call me names and push me around and tell me what to do and all this came out on Crise [sic]."
On Thursday, Shumway claimed that about 20 minutes after Ray purportedly made sexual advances, Shumway got the butcher knife from the kitchen, then stood over the sleeping boy he called his "best friend," and began stabbing him.
Shumway woke Ray's mother about 7 a.m., declaring he had stabbed her son in self-defense. Gette found the boy dead on the floor in a pool of congealed blood.
Tried as an adult in the fall of 2000, Shumway was found guilty by a 3rd District Court jury of first-degree felony murder and second-degree felony evidence tampering, for allegedly disposing of the steak knife, which was never found.
Sentenced to prison for five years to life, Shumway - then 16 - was at the time the youngest inmate at the Utah State Prison.
But in 2003, the Utah Supreme Court ordered a new murder trial, saying jurors were given the wrong instruction about considering the lesser crime of manslaughter.
The high court dismissed the evidence tampering charge for insufficient evidence.
A year later, Shumway resolved the case by pleading guilty to first-degree felony aggravated burglary and second-degree felony manslaughter.
Jones said Shumway, who is housed at the Daggett County jail, has been an ''outstanding'' inmate, who has finished high school and is taking college courses at his own expense.
But Jones noted that, according to a psychological exam, Shumway knows ''all the right things'' to say, but doesn't appear truly remorseful for the slaying.
''There's not a heckuva lot of feeling there,'' Jones said.
Shumway said he has a hard time expressing himself, but insisted: ''I take full responsibility for my crime. I'm sorry I took this life.''
After the hearing, Shumway's father Rick Shumway told news reporters he wishes his son would ''tell the truth'' about the slaying.
Rick Shumway believes therapy might help, but said his son has received no counseling.
''I wonder if there's stuff bottled up inside him,'' he said. ''I think he ought to talk to someone to let it all out.''