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Perpetrator just trying to locate the grave site. >> while he and other investigators are on this small farm wondering if they will find a body, another search has been going on for days all over the county. a 29-year-old fast-food worker named roy jeffries is missing, leaving in his wake two distraught parents. >> somebody beat him up, hit him with a car and hes laying there and hes freezing and hes going to die from exposure. >> fearing the worst, roys parents looked high and low, in ditches a...

>> im glad that it did, and you know, when the police say, no, we dont think thats a good idea, just go with your gut. its your child out there. do what you feel like you need to do. >> but roys mother isnt ready to turn the other cheek. even though she and her husband agree to the plea bargain that reduced the charge against kerr from murder to manslaughter. >> he wants forgiveness from us. i cant give him forgiveness. for one thing, he said thats the only way he can get through this is if he h...

Was jeffries killed instantly, as kerr claimed, or did the killer leave him gasping for life, dying a slow, agonizing death in these lonely woods? >> so we were concerned to know from the medical examiner, was there any sign of whether he would have still been breathing at the time he was put in the ground? >> its a key issue. because if he buried jeffries alive, kerrs deal with the prosecutor would be null and void. >> but if he lies, they said we just throw it all out and still got all the evi...

>> guilty. >> the court gives meeks a three-year sentence, but it could have been worse. >> stomach contains approximately -- >> if the medical examiner had determined jeffries had been buried alive, kerr would have faced murder charges and meeks complicity to murder. >> the upper airway is clear of foreign debris. >> but thats not what she found. >> because of the autopsy, i can tell you that he was dead before he went into the shallow grave. >> inside that grave, the freezing temperatures slow...

Back, was the university of michigan jacket. >> according to kerrs confession, that jacket is what made him snap on the day of the murder. >> he was wearing the same clothes he was wearing whenever he made those comments. >> the same clothes jeffries had worn weeks before when he supposedly flirted with kerrs girlfriend. >> theres a hand. >> and finally, a body. >> right here. >> roy jeffries body. >> were just careful going around the perimeter not to disturb the body itself. >> tell roy to get...

Needed to pay. >> clayton kerr confessed to police that he shot and buried roy jeffries because, he said, jeffries had made a pass at his girlfriend. he then led police to the shallow grave where the two detectives on the case, as well as county coroner bill lee, battled frigid temperatures and frozen ground to dig up the body. >> theres a hand. >> yes. >> right lung, 600. >> in kentucky, dr. tracey corey, the chief medical examiner, and her staff, do autopsies to determine the cause for all sus...

Confession, that jacket is what made him snap on the day of the murder. >> he was wearing the same clothes he was wearing whenever he made those comments. >> the same clothes jeffries had worn weeks before when he supposedly flirted with kerrs girlfriend. >> theres a hand. >> and finally, a body. >> right here. >> roy jeffries body. >> were just careful going around the perimeter not to disturb the body itself. >> tell roy to get the body bag out of the truck. >> so far, the evidence on the scen...

>> face shows asymmetry with collapse of the right globe of the eye. theres skull fractures causing the swelling and the discoloration of his eye. >> but the dictation about an injury to the eye prompts one of the detectives to ask about some swelling to jeffries face. >> are you saying he was hit? >> he wonders if it could have been caused by a fight or a blow to the head which might indicate the killer lied about the incident. >> no, its probably secondary to the projectile. >> meaning it was ...

>> face shows asymmetry with collapse of the right globe of the eye. theres skull fractures causing the swelling and the discoloration of his eye. >> but the dictation about an injury to the eye prompts one of the detectives to ask about some swelling to jeffries face. >> are you saying he was hit? >> he wonders if it could have been caused by a fight or a blow to the head which might indicate the killer lied about the incident. >> no, its probably secondary to the projectile. >> meaning it was ...

Was jeffries killed instantly, as kerr claimed, or did the killer leave him gasping for life, dying a slow, agonizing death in these lonely woods? >> so we were concerned to know from the medical examiner, was there any sign of whether he would have still been breathing at the time he was put in the ground? >> its a key issue. because if he buried jeffries alive, kerrs deal with the prosecutor would be null and void. >> but if he lies, they said we just throw it all out and still got all the evi...