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This gift. but i dont have him anymore. >> and the break in the case came soon to. a 19-year-old who lived down the street from amy and rickys place. billy hoffman was arrested for rickys murder. >> turns out he bragged to loads of friends about what hes done. >> he was proud of it. he actually told people there was a girl that he would carpool with, for instance to go to work i came. arent he, said you saw those helicopters? they were over there. >> she said yeah. he said, that was. me i did th...

Trouble, she looked out. the prosecutor had seen the toll the child took on rickys mother to avoid yet another trial offered jennifer a deal. >> she pleaded guilty to manslaughter and solicit jason to commit murder. she got 15 years and four months. jennifer sentencing, the judge blamed her for spurring amy on. but what made amy preasmyer want to kill ricky? they didnt fight about her hanging out with friends when he wanted her home. they did talk about breaking up. but the hardly seemed a reaso...

>> was jennifer somehow involved? remember, after she and sara moved in with ricky and amy, ricky wanted her out. and she was mad at ricky for that. she was known for stirring up trouble. but murder? the idea seemed preposterous. in any way, it was billy hoffman who went on trial, not jennifer. and, he just climbed up. denying everything. no matter, he was convicted and got life without the possibility of parole. so, story over? not by a long shot. >> coming up -- >> a conversation with the kill...

It. >> yeah. but in 2002 he wrote us a letter. >> i.s., a letter. the key to the whole thing really. without that letter, it was 2002 and billy hoffman had been in prison for three years when he wrote to the cowles that he was remorseful. he had found god he said and with that a sense of obligation to say he was sorry. >> im reading it, im reading it, and crying, and im reading, and im crying. that he was sorry that he had done things that he shouldnt have. he hoped that we would forgive him som...

Of ricky hide in the bedroom and so we could see ricky coming up the stairs. the murder of ricky cowles was all set to go, but then came the day. august 12th, 1997, late in the day. jennifer and amy drove the two tenths of a mile up the road to belize house to pick him up. >> they drop me off, let me in and then the left. >> billy sat there he said, with a hammer, a knife, a gun, a pillow to use as a silencer. but remember, ricky ended up working late that night, fixing lights at the county fair...

The door, walked down the street towards his own house, had given up on the whole idea but then. >> i got to that corner. sure enough. amy and jennifer drive-by and theyre like where youre going? where you? going >> remember, amy had been calling ricky all evening trying to pin him down. >> and they told me, go back, he called this is hes gonna be there soon. >> so billie told the cops how he beautifully went back to the house and south minded or arm of this tools of murder. ricky came home, nee...

Didnt know what to -- i was afraid that the gunshot made too much noise good didnt use the pillow or anything. and i did know what to do. so i hit him with a hammer again. and then out of the house. >> then, billy gathered his things, walked home and paged jennifer. the signal that it was done. after the page, jennifer and amy split up. jennifer took pot to billy. amy asked sarah to go home with her. sarah who didnt know anything about the plan was used as an alibi stooge was used as the fool wh...

His own house, had given up on the whole idea. but then -- >> i got to that corner, sure enough amy and jennifer drive by. theyre, like, what are you doing? where are you going? >> remember amy had been calling ricky all evening trying to pin him down on when hed be home. >> they told me, go back. he called said hed be back la. he told cops he went back immediately to sit behind the door armed with his tools of murder. around 9:00 ricky came home, needed a shower, went upstairs, entered the bedr...

Dnt do it, i didnt do it. >> then in 2002 he wrote us a letter. >> ah, yes, the letter. the key to the whole thing really. without that letter, well -- it was 2002 and billy hoffman had been in prison for three years. when he wrote to the cowless that he was remorseful. he had found god, he said, and with that a sense of obligation to say he was sorry. >> and im reading it and reading it. then im crying, reading it, crying, reading it. im by myself -- >> what did it say? >> that he was sorry, th...

Families who might have gone completely off the rails, stayed intact because of an amazing gift he helped create and left behind, her name is kayleigh. name is kaly. the man who we killed her father before she was born was in prison. the teenager who gave birth to her grew into womanhood and even rickys parents, the cowles, who didnt like amy from the start, grew respect for her. >> she is a great mother of kaly. >> she was perfect mother. >> that might have been the end of the story. life does ...