. >>> the killing of poplar high's valedictorian kim nees shook this troubled town to its foundation.ut the solution to the mystery proved to be as elusive as gossip on the montana wind. by 1983, kim should have been finishing college. instead, after almost four ye s years, investigators seemed no closer to finding the killer or killers who'd beaten her to death and dumped her body in the poplar river. the nees family had long since left town, shattered. >> my mom and i really never really talked about it. we went our separate ways. >> it's almost like you lost your mother, though, too. >> my dad he always had to have it together because one of us would be not having it together. >> years of trying to match those fingerprints found at the murder scene and the telltale bloody palm print had come to nothing. suspects, classmates, neighbors, even that group of girls long whispered about had been investigated and apparently cleared. but a break in the case was about to come. and from across the country, in, of all places, the town of monroe, louisiana. it was january, 1983. sheriff dean m