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This gift. but i don't have him anymore. >> and the break in the case came soon to. a 19-year-old who lived down the street from amy and ricky's place. billy hoffman was arrested for ricky's murder. >> turns out he bragged to loads of friends about what he's 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. aren't he, said you saw those helicopters? they were over there. >> she said yeah. he said, that was. me i did that. >> so, he did not to the authorities but he already told a number of several people? >> sev...

Trouble, she looked out. the prosecutor had seen the toll the child took on ricky's 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 didn't fight about her hanging out with friends when he wanted her home. they did talk about breaking up. but the hardly seemed a reason to kill. even billy hoffman, who so casually agreed to murder a man did not seem to have any rea...

>> 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 killer. he has a little secret he wants to share. >> okay, she had also knew about this? >> yes. >> when...

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. >> i'm reading it, i'm reading it, and crying, and i'm reading, and i'm crying. that he was sorry that he had done things that he shouldn't have. he hoped that we would forgive him someday. >> then she went back to the beginning and won't read this one curious phrase. i would he...

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. waiting the house, billy started get sleepy. he started having second. thoughts >> you know, i got...