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
alcoholic at the time she claims to have overheard the plan to shut helen up. she later had psychological problems, had a cocaine habit. even spent some of the government s money to buy drugs. the judge didn t find her credible. the other key witness was a horse trainer. richard bailey asked kenny and i to to get rid of helen brach. and this was in 1977. the candy lady. richard bailey began to talk that the candy wasn t so sweet anymore and that he was in trouble and he needed something done and said it would be worth $5,000 if, you know, she would disappear, this, that and the other. though plemmons says he rejected the offer, his story pins bailey neatly to a murder plot. but is it true? the other man at that alleged contract offer, a convicted murderer named ken hansen said it never happened, not the
inside wrapped in a blanket was the battered body of an elderly woman, a woman joe recognized immediately as the candy lady. joe knew who she was. her body was badly bruised, red, and he believed that she was dead. their task was to transfer the body from the trunk of this cadillac to the back of a station wagon. plemmons says he grabbed her feet and ken hansen grabbed her shoulders. as they carried the motionless body to the station wagon, hansen said he heard a moan. in their surprise they dropped the body. everybody stood around looking at each other and ken hansen pulled out a gun, two guns, a revolver and a sawed off shotgun and tossed the revolver to joe and pointed the shotgun at joe s chest. plemmons claims curt hansen ordered him to put holes in the blanket or there would be two of you in the station wagon. thinking plemmons was already dead, he fired a shot. hansen ordered him to shoot again. he fired a second shot.