In 1995 we found him living in a tiny apartment in pennsylvania not far from helen s gravesite. hello, mr. matlick? my name s murphy with nbc news. we ve got some questions for you, sir. jack matlick, the motive is the money. the opportunity is she s coming home and she s leaving for good. well, no one has ever explained to me how he would financially benefit from her demise. there has never been persuasive evidence establishing that anyone other than richard bailey was involved in this murder plot. jack matlick says he has nothing to do with her disappearance and denies stealing her money. richard bailey says he has done bad things, but he says he s looking at dying in prison. if he knew who the killer was, he says by now, he would have cut a deal. do you know anything more about helen s brach murder? if i did i would tell them. it could be your ticket to a lighter sentence. no question about it.
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