Part two: The search for a killer

For three nights in February 1985, Beatrice police sat in a motor home a quarter-mile from Pleasant View Cemetery near Pickrell.

buy this photo Last year, DNA testing of forensic evidence collected in 1985 by Beatrice police led authorities to Bruce Allen Smith (above), the man who raped Helen Wilson right). Smith, an Oklahoman, died in 1992. (Courtesy of Nebraska Attorney General)

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