MARY MODE: Tim and Kelly started dating in high school.
Tim would bring Kelly out to the farm.
DAVE HACK: I really do believe that the two of them
would eventually be married, that they
would be a couple for life.
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Tim and Kelly were going to go to a wedding reception
at the Concord House.
CHAD GARCIA: Tim and Kelly get to the Concord House
at approximately 10:30 PM.
They're there for approximately half an hour, 45 minutes.
Witnesses say that Tim had a beer
and Kelly had a soda during the time they were there,
and there are witnesses that see them leave.
PATRICK HACK: The next morning, get up and get work done.
Except when you got up in the morning and Tim wasn't there,
instantly there was a level of concern.
DAVE HACK: We called Kelly's mom and said, did they stay there?
She said no.
I drove up to the Concord House to look.
Tim's car was still there.
The door wasn't quite shut, and this wallet
was still in the car.
From there on, we finally realized
Tim and Kelly are gone.
CHAD GARCIA: In the first four days,
they were talking to all the employees
from the Concord House.
We're talking the wedding guests.
SUSAN HAPP: One consistent thing that was reported
was that there was this dark, dirty van that
had been in the parking lot.
One witness specifically recalled
the van taking off sort of in a suspicious fashion,
a quick way.
The Concord House itself was right next to the interstate.
There's a big parking lot, there's not a lot of lighting
or anything out there.
If you were intent on abducting somebody, all you had to do
is wait for the right moment.
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SUSAN HAPP: A teenager on his tractor
had seen something as he was driving
that caught his eye, a pair of pants, just like Kelly
had been wearing on the night that she disappeared.
Both the left and the right leg are
completely cut, from the ankle all the way up to the waist.
So in other words, the pants could
have still been on her body, but they had been cut away.
DAVE HACK: It just magnified what
I had thought all along, that someone
had definitely raped her.
CHAD GARCIA: Over the course of 10 days,
multiple pieces of clothing belonging to Kelly
are found along the roadway within a six-mile radius
of the Concord House, as well as about a dozen pieces of rope
with various knots tied in it.
Squirrel hunters from Milwaukee are out
in the Ixonia, Wisconsin area, which is approximately seven
miles from the Concord House.
While they're walking through a wooded area,
they stumble across a body.
The body was badly decomposed.
Approximately 100 yards away, they
locate a male body that's fully clothed,
and appears to be the same clothing
that Tim was reported to have been wearing on August 9, 1980.
The manner of death for both of them was homicide.
Kelly was most possibly strangled,
based on damage and insect activity
around the throat area.
So then these pieces of rope we're
finding along the roadsides become extremely significant.
CHAD GARCIA: There is the regular square knot,
but there's also half hitches, clove hitches, bowline knots.
This is somebody with knowledge of knot tying, somebody that's
been in the Navy or the military or in the trades,
like a carpenter, maybe a painter.
It's not going to just be your everyday person that's going
to tie these types of knots.
NARRATOR: The case remains cold for more than two decades
the Hack family is forced to move
on without their oldest son.
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SUSAN HAPP: I was eight years old at the time
Tim and Kelly went missing.
So when I first was elected district attorney,
I was well aware of this case, and I wanted to know
what happened to Tim and Kelly.
CHAD GARCIA: Knowing what a big case this was after being
unsolved for so long, it immediately became my number
one goal to solve this case.
At that time, DNA is becoming more and more popular.
The DNA located on Kelly's pants and underwear
was from seminal fluid.
One evening, I received a phone call.
It was a female who identifies herself as April.
She said, I think my dad could be
responsible for Tim and Kelly.
I think he killed them.
And she said, his name is Edward Wayne Edwards.
She tells me about a book that he
had written that she said would explain more about her father.
Back in the early '70s, Edwards appears on numerous talk shows
and game shows, with this book about his life
as a master criminal.
In the late '60s, Edwards was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted
list he was a suspect in a double homicide
in Portland, Oregon.
SUSAN HAPP: As I read the book, what was so interesting was,
he exhibited all of the classic signs
of the stereotypical signs of a serial killer.
He was a bedwetter, he had an affinity for starting fires,
he was extremely controlling.
For some serial killers, the need to put on a normal face
to interact with members of society
and have access to victims is very important.
In fact, if they looked unusual or weird or bizarre,
they might not get to approach victims in the way
that they need to.
CHAD GARCIA: In addition to that,
Edward's daughter April told me her dad was
in the military, that he had been dishonorably
discharged from the military.
So Ed Edwards knows how to tie these knots.
I had him on my suspect list.
Edwards was interviewed in early September of 1980.
He did not know anything about Tim or Kelly's disappearance.
The one thing that stuck out to me
was that he had a broken nose.
He said it was a deer hunting incident
that caused the rifle to kick back and cause the broken nose.
That seemed odd to me.
Gun deer hunting in Wisconsin is November, not in August.
Once I found out where Edwards had lived,
I talked to the landlord that took care of the house.
He said that Edwards lived in that house for a brief time,
and then moved to another state shortly after the disappearance
of Tim and Kelly.
Edwards had a van.
He kept a .357 revolver in the van.
This van adds up with the van that was spotted that night.
Everything was making sense.
I think I know what happened to Tim and Kelly.
Edwards was waiting in the parking lot.
Kelly fit the profile he was looking for.
Tim, being a strong farm boy, got a good swing in on Edwards,
causing the broken nose.
And that's when Tim was stabbed.
There's no telling what happened in the van.
But we know that Kelly was raped and strangled to death.
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He was in a wheelchair, on oxygen, very overweight,
and not in very good health.
Throughout the entire time that we spoke with him,
he acted very nonchalant.
Like it didn't matter that we were there at all.
For some serial killers, it is a game.
Given Edwards's age, it might have
been this was his last opportunity
to manipulate law enforcement.
CHAD GARCIA: When I asked him to provide a sample of his DNA
so that we could test it, he said that he
had no problem doing that.
He thinks he's smarter than us.
After 29 years, he's thinking, what DNA are we going to have?
How are we going to prove this?
It turns out it's a match.
During the final hour or two of the interview,
we asked him if he could explain the seminal fluid
DNA being on Kelly's clothes.
So then he comes up with the most unbelievable story.
SUSAN HAPP: Tim and Kelly were joined at the hip.
Kelly Drew's not going to go off and willingly have sex
with Ed Edwards in a cornfield.
CHAD GARCIA: I went back to see if maybe there was something
he said that I didn't pick up on,
or maybe there were certain movements he made
to tell me when he was lying.
As I'm watching the video, something struck me.
He said something sort of under his breath.
SUSAN HAPP: We probably rewound it
1,000 times trying to make sure that we heard what we heard.
CHAD GARCIA: And after listening to it repeatedly,
and having many others listen to it repeatedly,
everyone agreed that what he said is--
"Damn it, I killed her."
SUSAN HAPP: To hear him say, "Damn it, I killed her",
it's a goosebump moment.
CHAD GARCIA: Ultimately, he pleads guilty to killing
Tim and Kelly.
SUSAN HAPP: Edwards confesses to killing his foster son, Danny.
CHAD GARCIA: Edwards was an over-the-road truck
driver that traveled to California in the late '60s.
Because of this, some people believe Edward Wayne
Edwards is the Zodiac Killer.
Some of the links include the fact that Edwards was a drifter
and he could have been in California at this time,
the fact that Edwards killed couples
and that the Zodiac Killer also killed couples.
CHAD GARCIA: Symbols that are used
to sign off on the Zodiac letters consist of 13 symbols.
Edward Edwards is 13 letters, and his birth name of Charles
Murray is 13 letters as well.