may never happen. in 2007 ken hansen died in prison while serving 200 years for the 1955 murders of three young boys. his lawyers maintain he was not involved with the disappearance of helen brach. ken hansen s brother curt died in 1993. recent efforts to locate joe . plemmons were not successful. armed with plemmons new version of events, richard bailey filed a request for his 30-year sentence to be reconsidered. the request was denied. the appeals court ruled the new information even if true did not prove bailey was innocent of conspiring to kill helen brach. according to the cook county state s attorneys office in illinois, the case remains open and the investigation is ongoing. more than 30 years have passed since helen brach s disappearance, but the disappearance, but the murder mystery remains unsolved. richard bailey is in prison for conspiring to kill her. but what about joe plemmons or
nervous about meeting us. plemmons laid out his life story and described the night he says helen brach was led to her death. as plemmons told the tribune, it was february, 1977, at 1:00 a.m. and he got a call from his friend ken hansen. hansen told him to meet him at his horse stable right away. whenever joe was in trouble and joe was in trouble a lot, he could turn to kenny for help, for money, to bail him out of jams. so the hansens would have been, whatever they wanted done joe would have been hard pressed to say no to them. plemmons says he and hansen waited at the stable for quite a while. eventually, a cadillac pulled into the riding ring. according to plemmons, ken hansen s brother, curt, stepped out of the cadillac and opened the trunk.
in 2007 ken hansen died in prison while serving 200 years for the 1955 murders of three young boys. his lawyers maintain he was not involved with the disappearance of helen brach. ken hansen s brother curt died in 1993. recent efforts to locate joe . plemmons were not successful. armed with plemmons new version of events, richard bailey filed a request for his 30-year sentence to be reconsidered. the request was denied. the appeals court ruled the new information, even if true, did not prove bailey was innocent of conspiring to kill helen brach. according to the cook county state s attorneys office in illinois, the case remains open and the investigation is ongoing. more than 30 years have passed since helen brach s disappearance, but the disappearance, but the murder mystery remains unsolved. richard bailey is in prison for conspiring to kill her. but what about joe plemmons or