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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 he's laying there and he's freezing and he's going to die from exposure. >> fearing the worst, roy's parents looked high and low, in ditches along the road. even in area dumpsters. >> i thought, man, i don't want to find no bodies in this...

>> i'm glad that it did, and you know, when the police say, no, we don't think that's a good idea, just go with your gut. it's your child out there. do what you feel like you need to do. >> but roy's mother isn't 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 can't give him forgiveness. for one thing, he said that's the only way he can get through this is if he has our forgiveness. well, i can't give him forgiveness. i don't want him to get through this...

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? >> it's a key issue. because if he buried jeffries alive, kerr's 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 evidence. >> how unusual is it that a medical examiner's findings in autopsy would affect a plea agre...

>> 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 that's 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 slowed decomposition as the medical examiner had discovered at autopsy. so roy's body was in better con...

Back, was the university of michigan jacket. >> according to kerr's 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 kerr's girlfriend. >> there's a hand. >> and finally, a body. >> right here. >> roy jeffries' body. >> we're 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 scene suggests kerr is telling t...