. >> he told me his daughter's name was loretta beechler. she was 49 years old. dren, a boy and a girl. loretta had had a pretty hard life. she had lived pretty much on the street or in homeless shelters the majority of her adult life. she still had a whole life ahead of her. who knows what she would have done. she deserved that life. she didn't deserve this. what really matters is that that person's not able to speak for themselves. they can't get up and point out who their killer was. we're the only ones that can speak for the dead. we've got to go out and find out who that person is who killed them. >> when somebody's been killed by another person, you've taken from that person their soul, that something special, and to me there's nothing more serious or solemn than trying to find the truth about somebody that did something like that. >> she was a good daughter, a damn good daughter. >> ken said that after his wife died that he needed someone to help take care of him, so he'd driven out to ridgecrest, california, picked up loretta, and she agreed to come back a