much effort know your neighbors but one resident the town's people saiddom saw was 28-year-old john hebble. >> john was somewhat of a recluse, john kind of stayed to himself. >> it wasn't unusual that we didn't see him for a month. he'd be out doing things with friends. >> at one point in john's life he was a narcotics user and very possibly also a narcotics dealer. >> in february of 1999, john's mother was really worried, she hadn't heard from her son in over two months. >> i'd been trying to reach my son and he wasn't answering and we were afraid something was wrong. >> so she called the local sheriff who found john's van parked in his driveway, but no one answered the door. >> they smelled an odor coming from inside the trailer. they described that odor as being the odor of death. >> the officers forced their way through the trailer door and found helbel dead, slumped in a chair. >> the body appeared to be in a position of someone who had been watching tv and had laid their head down on the arm or pillow and gone to sleep. the body was completely covered. i had a blanket over the head,