been brought up from the time i could walk around that police were your friend, you held them at a certain level. after going through this, it makes you think twice. on september 17, 1966, diane keidel met a boyfriend for a drink at a local night spot. after leaving the bar, she disappeared. officials weren't sure whether she ran away from the responsibilities facing a single mother with four young children or perhaps had been the victim of foul play. that question was answered 27 years later when her daughter came forward with a fantastic tale of something she saw when she was 5 years old.

>> in 1956, 21-year-old dianne kidder went to work in her father's grocery store in peoria, illinois. she needed the money since she was recently divorced and was raising her 2-year-old daughter susie. and it was in that store one day where she met a bachelor from town, gene keidel. >> gene wasn't the best-looking guy in town, but he's a good talker. he's a very good talker, and he was able to woo her. >> the couple dated for a year, fell in love, and eventually married. they moved to phoenix, arizona, where gene found work in the growing construction industry. together gene and dianne had three more children, greg, kelly, and lori. >> my siblings and i were very close, yeah. a lot of great childhood

memories. >> over time, gene and dianne decided it was best for all concerned if they divorced. on september 17th, the couple met for dinner at a nearby restaurant to discuss the final details of the property settlement and visitation. by all accounts, the meeting went well. afterwards, dianne dropped gene off at his apartment. after that, she went to a bar and met bob marlin, a man she had been casually dating. a few hours later, gene called dianne at the house. and when the children said she still wasn't home, he went over to babysit and fell asleep on the sofa. the next morning, gene said he found his wife's car in the driveway, but there was no sign of her. gene called the police department and reported her missing. >> i know she arrived home. her car was there. her purse was in the house.

her keys were in the house on the table in the kitchen. dianne did not take any clothes with her that we learned of, and there was no reason for her to run away. there was no motive there. >> missing persons investigators couldn't understand why dianne would have left town without her children. >> her neighbors, her mother, and her brother all indicated that mrs. keidel would never leave her children for any length of time. they described her as an excellent mother, very concerned about her children. >> when police went to interview bob marlin, the man dianne was with at the bar, they were told an incredible piece of news. bob marlin suffered a heart attack and died the day after his date with dianne. whatever marlin might have known about dianne's disappearance went with him to his grave. meet the world's newest energy

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two days after dianne keidel's mysterious disappearance, gene keidel moved back into the home to look after the four children.

>> my father's explanation to not only his children but to neighbors that would inquire about my mother's sudden disappearance was that my mother had run off with a boyfriend. >> gene provided police with a list of men he said dianne had been dating since the separation, but they all were dead ends. over time, the keidel children adjusted to life without their mother, although they all hoped that someday she would return. but four months later, tragedy struck once again. around 9:00 at night, while gene was at a nearby laundromat, a fire broke out in the keidels' home. the blaze quickly engulfed the entire house, and the four children were trapped in their bedrooms. susie, the oldest, led the others around the flames, but

lori ran back into her bedroom for her winnie the pooh stuffed animal. >> i fell on the floor. i was burned. i was crying. i wanted my mother. and my older sister, susie, came in. the house was ablaze around us and so she laid on top of me. she said, they're coming now for us, lori. they'll help us. she said, i love you, and i'll never leave you. at that point, she died as she held me. >> susie gave her life protecting lori from the flames, although lori suffered third-degree burns all over her -- 50% of her body. >> i was continually loved by my sister as she held me and died

protecting me. the trauma, the nightmares, the horror of it, that doesn't go away. i just try to overcome that with knowing that i was loved, that i was valuable enough to die for. >> what can you say? i mean, when you see that, it takes your breath away. you realize that that person made the ultimate sacrifice. >> 8-year-old kelly also died in the fire. 9-year-old greg survived. gene keidel arrived at the scene just as firemen were pulling the children from the blaze. investigators found a melted pot on the stovetop burner. the knob was in the "on" position. as a result, the fire was ruled accidental. after spending four months in a hospital burn unit, lori went back to live in the family home her father had rebuilt after the fire.

but one year later, there was an incident that helped lori realize the terrible truth of what happened to her mother. it happened when lori and her father went to a friend's funeral. his name was michael, a boy from the neighborhood who was killed in the vietnam war. >> daddy, when is he going to wake up? >> he's not. he's dead. they're going to bury him today. >> wake him up! wake him up! >> and i began to cry, and i threw a very large distraction, a very large fit, trying to make people understand that we needed to wake michael up, that i wasn't going to permit them to bury michael in the ground. i was the only living person that now knew the secret of my mother. >> but it took another 27 years for lori to reveal the deep, dark family secret she had been

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in 1993, after dianne keidel had been missing for 27 years, her only surviving daughter

walked into the phoenix police department with a written statement. it described a terrible secret she had been too afraid to reveal. >> to whom it may concern, i need to convey to authorities what i witnessed as a child. first, i must greatly impress the fear i have of my father's violent retaliation. i was often told as a child by my father, i brought you into this world, i can take you out. >> the letter went on to say as a 5-year-old child, lori saw her father beat her mother to death and then bury her in the backyard. at first, lori thought her mother was sleeping, as hibernating animals do. she said she once asked her father if she could dig a hole in the backyard to feed her mother. >> as a 5-year-old, i thought my mother was sleeping.

i thought that my father made my mother go to sleep, and i thought he buried my sleeping mother in the hole in the backyard. i wasn't confused on where she was. i wasn't confused on who did it. i was confused between sleeping and death. >> only after she went to her friend's funeral did she realize that her mother would never wake up. detective ed reynolds at first wasn't sure what to think. >> i've been lied to by some pretty good liars and have been fooled by a lot of people. and when that happens, you tell yourself, i'm not going to let that happen again. i'm not going to fall hook, line, and sinker for every story that comes down the pike. in this case, though, she seemed very truthful, very believable and sincere in what she said. in this case, i wanted more than just a story. i wanted proof. >> lori said her father poured a

concrete patio over her mother's grave the day after he buried her. the home had long since been sold by her father who was now remarried and living across town. reynolds was hesitant to ask the new owners to dig up their patio without more than a 27-year recollection. reynolds looked all over the country for the technology that could look underneath the concrete patio without damaging it. the search took almost a year and led to a nonprofit agency in colorado called necrosearch, which brings applied sciences to law enforcement. in this case, necrosearch recommended a ground penetrating radar system. >> to take a look within the ground and to see if it was disturbed. that's what we do in geoscience. just because we find a disturbance, it could be caused by many things. the proof is going to have to be

a careful excavation. >> when the radar was pulled across the cement decking, it revealed a ground disturbance 6 feet long by 2 feet wide at the corner of the patio. >> the very spot on the concrete that lori romaneck had taken to me earlier when she walked me through the backyard where she suspected the body of her mother was buried. >> when police removed the concrete, they had to dig only ten inches before making a grisly discovery, a piece of human skull. within hours, they uncovered the rest of the remains in the shallow two-foot grave. they also discovered a bra and a girdle. around the skeleton's neck were women's stockings.

there was no identification on the remains, and bacteria in the shallow grave eliminated the possibility of dna testing. even the teeth were too badly damaged by bacteria to analyze the tooth pulp, usually a rich protected source of dna so detectives had to use other means to identify the skeleton. the first clue was a tree root from a neighbor's mulberry tree that had grown through the skull. the root was sent to a dendrochronologist at the university of arizona. by studying the age of the tree root and the manner in which it penetrated the skull, he was convinced that the body was placed in the ground before the tree root. since the root was 15 years old, the body was placed in the grave before 1978. forensic anthropologist dr. laura analyzed the skeletal

remains and determined it was a caucasian woman between 5'4" and 5'5" in height. the pelvic bones indicated that the woman had given birth to at least two children and was between 20 and 40 years of age. all were consistent with dianne keidel. dental x-rays are commonly used for identification. unfortunately, dianne keidel's dentist was no longer in practice, and her x-rays had been destroyed. as a last-ditch effort to identify the remains, the doctor decided to try a technique called skull photograph superimposition. >> what you are basically doing is taking a picture of the person in life and superimposing it onto the skull of the person that you think it might have been. >> the doctor photographed the skull in the same position and size as the photograph of dianne

keidel taken shortly before she disappeared. >> a canine tooth that was slightly ajar, it stuck out slightly from her mouth, we were able to line that tooth up with the tooth in the photograph. i have no questions. i am sure that it's her. >> police immediately arrested 61-year-old gene keidel and charged him with murder. lori romaneck was now ready to tell a judge and jury what really happened on the night her mother disappeared. when you're living with diabetes, steady is exciting. only glucerna has carbsteady, clinically proven to help minimize blood sugar spikes. so you stay steady ahead. sowith a down payment andrs 10% financing. oh larry, lawrence. thanks to the tools and help at experian.com,

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for years, gene keidel told family and friends that his wife, dianne, abandoned her children and ran off with a boyfriend. but lori romaneck told a very different story about what happened to her mother on the night of september 17, 1966. lori said her mother was wearing her blue double-breasted dress when she left to meet her father for dinner at a local restaurant. after dinner, dianne drove gene home to his apartment. later, witnesses saw dianne at the amber inn having drinks with

a boyfriend. around 11:00 p.m., gene called the house to speak with dianne and, when he learned she wasn't there, went over to the house to wait for her. when dianne returned home around midnight, the couple fought, waking 5-year-old lori and her older sister susie. the two girls went to investigate. >> when she saw her children, she took her defense down, and it was at that point that my father delivered her last blow. and she whipped back and hit her head and slid to the floor. >> gene saw the girls run from the hallway, and they hid in the closet. when the children eventually

came out of hiding, they saw their mother's lifeless body on the pool deck, and they saw their father digging a hole in the backyard. the next day, gene keidel poured a fresh layer of concrete over his wife's grave for what he thought would be an eternity. lori described her father as an alcoholic, cruel and violent. >> we're talking about the fact that my father would beat my mother, violently. my father would attempt to beat his children, my siblings and i. and when my mother was alive, she would intervene, and she would not permit my father to beat his children. she was very strong on that issue. >> lori also says that her father threatened to kill her if

she ever revealed details of her mother's death. >> this was something that lori says that she never forgot. and she had just been terrified for her whole childhood and then her adult life of her father. even after she got married and left the house and they barely had a relationship at some points, she remembered the thing the whole way through. and somehow -- i mean, i don't think there's anyone that really could exactly describe what was going on in that head of hers all those years. >> in 1995, gene keidel was convicted for the murder of his wife, dianne, and was sentenced to life in prison. >> i think it shows that the memory of a 5-year-old, even though it's some 29 years later, is sufficient to convict. but remember the one unanswerable question was, if what she saw wasn't what she saw, how could she have led us to the body? and she did. >> my father single-handedly

murdered my mother, murdered my two siblings and attempted a murder on me and a murder on my brother. i think that my father will more meet his calling upon his death. i pray for my father. i think that this judicial system will have nothing in the comparison of the wrath of god. and that i'm sorry for. my father will have to answer and be held accountable. what does a man tell our creator, god, when god says, what did you do to that beautiful wife and lovely children i gave you? and my father will reply, i beat them, i murdered them, i burned them up in a horrible fire? what will be my father's punishment? i'm sorry.

that causes me the grief that i that causes me the grief that i feel today for him. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com while on a business trip in 1986, ed post spent the morning jogging near his hotel in downtown st. louis. when he returned to his hotel room, he discovered his wife dead in the bathtub. the medical examiner ruled the death was by drowning, presumably accidental, but homicide investigators weren't so sure.