credit. >> sitting in his prison cell, jimmy keene desperately hoped he had done enough. >> are they going to be fair and give me what is justifiably right on this, or are they just going to say here is six months? it was a crap shoot. >> without a location for reitler's body, beaumont had a decision to make. >> i made him take a polygraph test just to verify what he was telling us, was it true, and he passed. and he did make a legitimate effort to do what we sent him down there to do. >> so beaumont made a plea to the judge to let him become a free man. and keene returned home to his aging father. >> what did you feel like when you were finally released? >> i was happy as could be. it was a very bizarre roller coaster i went on. it was redemption at its best. >> keene had five more good years to be with his father