BONUS: The Bones on Party Hill (Buried in the Backyard)

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When a night of fun at the local tavern ends in mystery.

She had left her cigarettes and her keys on the bar.

She walked out the back door and never returned.

Rumors fly around a quiet Midwestern farm town.

Had overheard them say they had killed someone and cut them up and send police down an unexpected and dark path.

They had abducted three women that they held as sex slaves in a cave on the property.

The truth lies hidden for years until a horrifying discovery buried in a rancher's backyard.

I found a rib cage.

Reveals a small town's deadly secret.

There's no way that this could not be connected.

The killer

was still out on the loose.

The tiny farm town of Ord sits on the eastern edge of the Nebraska Sandhills.

A vast stretch of rolling dunes that meet the Great Plains.

Ord, Nebraska, is dead center of the other state.

It is kind of a small town in America's heartland.

It's a farming and ranching community, very friendly.

The ranches around Ord are pretty large, kind of gentle rolling hills, fields of alfalfa.

or fields of popcorn.

That's safe.

There's not a lot of crime.

You can let your children run around and not have to worry about them.

On a beautiful spring afternoon, Dieta Potesca and her children are out picking up discarded bottles and cans to recycle for pocket money.

And there are plenty on Party Hill, a popular hangout spot for teens hidden in a remote corner of a rancher's backyard.

Party Hill was well known back then.

Kind of a known drinking spot for underage teenagers.

SD Petska and her children were out.

They walked, they found something in the road.

Initially, she thought it was a ball or something that had become deflated.

But when she looked at it closer,

it looked like bones.

She made an X where she had found it and then called law enforcement.

They determined that it was a piece of a human skull.

Police are immediately dispatched to the rancher's secluded backyard.

It was by hand and very, very meticulous.

It was comparable to an archaeological dig.

I started to walk around a little bit and I went up to a little indentation at the top of this pasture

and I found a rib cage.

As the work stretches on for hours, many of the searchers have their suspicions about who they found.

I think almost universally thought there's only been one person disappeared here

and now possibly murdered.

Investigators send the bones for DNA testing, hoping it will confirm their suspicion about the victim's identity.

We think we know who is buried in the backyard.

The sunplace else, a tavern, is where the people can go for a meal, a drink or two, socialize.

bar it was a pretty busy place back then it was a bar so of course you got your scuffles here once in a while but you sleep with everybody got along with everybody

the someplace else tavern is like a second living room for much of the tiny community in ord on most nights that's where you'll find charlene whitefoot and kathy beard

charlene was the bar manager and Kathy Beard worked as a part-time waitress at the Someplace Else Tavern.

Charlene and Kathy were very good friends.

I would call them best friends.

I've known Kathy for a long time.

I remember with my mom, Charlene, bartend, and it seemed like Kathy was always sitting at the end of the bar.

Kathy just always had a smile on her face.

Kathy was kind of social and really enjoyed her friends.

On a warm spring evening, Kathy heads to the Someplace Else Tavern.

This happened to be Kathy's night off, but she, you know, went down to the bar to see her friends.

She had talked to several people in the bar, including Charlene Whitefoot.

This was a safe place to her.

She was very familiar with the people there.

But at closing time, Charlene, who has been tending bar all night, realizes that Kathy is suddenly nowhere to be found.

Charlene noted that Kathy had left her cigarettes and her keys and some other items on the bar, which she felt was very unusual.

Kathy lived with her mother, Vanetta.

They were very close.

But Vanetta hasn't seen or heard from Kathy since she left earlier that evening to head for the bar.

Charlene became worried about Kathy and

called in the missing persons in the bar that night.

Police don't really get involved until a person has been missing for more than 24 hours.

But because of the unusual nature of Kathy's disappearance, police started looking into the case right away.

When somebody leaves their stuff unattended, that is a kind of a sign of maybe something went wrong.

When police interview people who were in the bar that night, several say they saw Kathy talking to a man named John Oldson, a lifelong resident of Ord.

John Olson and Kathy Beard did know each other.

I think Kathy considered him somewhat of a friend.

They were all sitting at a table when John got up from the table and walked over and started talking to Kathy, who was standing at the jukebox.

They had some type of a discussion and at some point went out the back door into the alley.

When the detectives visit John Olson to ask him what happened in the alley behind the bar, he readily admits that he was trying to hit on Kathy.

John wanted to be with with Kathy.

He attempted to have a relationship with her,

but she refused.

She said,

I see he was a friend, but, you know, not in the way you're talking.

John tells the investigators that while he and Kathy were talking, a pickup truck pulled into the alley.

The passenger door opened up and Kathy entered the vehicle and the door closed.

John claims he didn't recognize the men, but he did catch part of the truck's license plate as it drove off.

He thought it had 88 county plates and he couldn't get the rest of the numbers.

An 88 county license would be Luke County and it would be about 31 miles from Ward.

John tells the police Kathy seemed to willingly go off with the two men.

He said he felt rebuffed and ashamed, so he got in his pickup and drove home, took a shower.

His dad said John was in the shower at the time he got home, and

basically backed John's story.

John Oldson isn't the only one who tells police he saw Kathy get into an unidentified pickup truck behind the bar.

Jerome Mokalviak came forward.

He had seen a pickup in the alley.

Jerome basically stated that through the back door of the window of the bar, he saw Kathy Beard walk away from John and get into this other 88 County pickup.

He basically corroborated John's story.

Investigators now have two witnesses who claim to have seen Kathy getting into a pickup truck behind the bar.

Kathy left with someone and

did not return of her own accord to find Kathy.

We needed to find the truck.

So officers are trying to see if they could locate a pickup that would match that description.

We were asking anyone that may have witnessed anything to do with this Loop County vehicle to come forward.

As time went by, it was becoming fairly certain that something serious happened to Kathy.

She could be in real trouble.

Well, that was quite urgent to getting her located.

He was pursuing a sexual fantasy.

The man who was soliciting sex could have killed her himself.

He was the last person to see her alive.

A day into the search for Kathy Beard, police in Ord, Nebraska are looking for a pickup truck that witnesses reported seeing her get into with two unidentified men.

They did a search of Department Motor Vehicle Records for any and all 88 county pickups that were licensed that fit that description.

They were able to look at all of the vehicles ever registered and could not find one that matched the color and description that was provided by both Rokoviak and John.

Police wonder, could John or Jerome have gotten the plate or color of the pickup truck wrong?

Alcohol affects the way you think.

John and Jerome would have had enough to drink drink that they would have probably not seen the things the same way as if they were sober.

Since John was the last person to see Kathy that night, the detectives go back to him to see if his memory has become any clearer.

But his story is unchanged.

To prove he's not hiding anything from them, he agrees to let the police search his pickup truck.

Law enforcement collected whatever samples they could find.

Then everything came back with that there was no DNA trace that belonged to Kathy.

Crime is rare in a tiny town like Ord, but as police search for Kathy, they find themselves in the middle of two big investigations.

On the same night, Kathy Beard becomes a missing person.

There was an armed robbery at a motel.

And there's no way that this cannot be connected because what's the chances of an armed robbery in Ordin, Nebraska?

The same night a woman comes up missing.

The robbery victim is a businessman visiting from Colorado.

He tells police about two men he met in a local bar.

He was in town as a popcorn seed salesman.

He said they started drinking together and he had a lot of cash on him.

And he was offering $100 to $200 if they could find him a woman that evening.

The traveling salesman claims nothing came of it, but that an hour after he left them, the two men showed up at his motel room

and they forced the door open and had a shotgun

and robbed him of his money.

From the salesman's description, police recognized the robbers as two local men, Rex White and Glenn Hall.

Glenn Hall and Rex White were known locally for having been involved in some other crimes around the area.

Rex and Glenn, who lived locally and were kind of local troublemakers, and they kind of pieced together who these two culprits were.

They don't match the description of the men in the alley, but when they bring in the pair for questioning, detectives discover a disturbing connection between them and Kathy on the night she vanished.

Glen Hall explained that this salesman was looking for a person he could have sex with,

and they left the other bar in order and went to someplace else tavern

and they walked in and they were asking where Kathy was

and it popped into their head that Kathy Beard would be someone that they would

find for him.

Kathy Beard had a reputation deserved or not.

There was a belief amongst law officers that Glenn Hall and Rex White might have taken Kathy to the motel and the man who was soliciting sex was the one that killed her.

Detectives can't find any evidence connecting the salesman to Kathy's disappearance, and Rex and Glenn claim they never saw Kathy that night.

But as the investigators check out their alibi, what they learn sets off an alarm.

Mr.

Hall and Mr.

White worked for a construction crew

and their boss indicated to the investigators at one point that he had overheard Rex White say they had killed someone and cut them up

and indicated that they may be buried somewhere.

One of the concrete crew reported to us that there was a bag of lime that was missing.

It's a disturbing discovery.

The detectives know lime is often used by killers to try to hide evidence of their crime.

Lime is basically used to keep the odor and decomposition attraction for bugs to a minimum.

The crew just had had a hole dug.

They poured the concrete the next day.

We had to search the job site where they were pouring a concrete pad.

Kathy Beard may be buried under a slab of concrete.

If her remains were found there, we might be able to figure out what happened to Kathy.

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A week after Kathy Beard vanishes in Ord, Nebraska, police are searching a nearby construction site where the foreman has told them he overheard an employee named Rex White brag about killing her.

He had reported that he had overheard Rex White talking about how they had disposed disposed of Kathy Bere underneath this concrete slab.

Rex and his co-worker Glenn Hall are already suspects in Kathy's disappearance.

So the information from their boss is enough for officers to obtain a search warrant and begin breaking down the concrete slab.

The sheriff's office was able to completely remove all that concrete, demolish it, and search the area underneath.

There was no remains.

It's a disappointment, but it doesn't remove suspicion from Rex White and Glenn Hall.

We later found out they had stolen a boat.

There were rumors of her being thrown in the lake and they dredged Erickson Lake.

But they didn't find anything.

That did not clear Mr.

Hall and Mr.

White as suspects.

It was always in the back of everybody's mind, hey, what happened to Kathy?

I was 12 years old when she disappeared, and I just wanted her to be found alive and okay.

After she disappeared,

Kathy's mother became

homebound.

She did think about it a lot.

She really needed to know what happened to her daughter.

The family was heartbroken.

No arrests had been made.

Detectives continue to watch their potential suspects, Rex White and Glenn Hall, but can't find any solid evidence connecting them to Kathy's disappearance.

And there's no sign of the pickup truck witnesses reported seeing Kathy get into behind the Someplace Else Tavern.

The mystery stretches into its third heart-wrenching year, and the case grows cold.

I would stop frequently and visit with Kathy Beard's mother.

I told her I was not going to forget about her daughter.

Then, a woman walking with her children makes a horrifying discovery

in a secluded corner of a rancher's backyard.

Dee Petzka found the skull on Hardy Hill where kids would go out in a desolate area and have their beer parties.

It's located about five miles from the bar where Kathy was last seen.

She called the police department to report that.

Crime techs combed the isolated backyard, collecting pieces of the remains.

The body parts had been somewhat scattered.

Based on the evidence, damage to the skeletal remains, we knew that it was a homicide.

The anthropologist determined that it was a white Caucasian female in her 30s.

And the more evidence they find buried in the backyard, the more investigators are convinced they know the identity of the victim.

I started to brush the dirt away and I found the sweater that Kathy Beard was reported wearing when she disappeared.

And there was a large hole in the abdominal area of the sweater.

A blood sample was drawn from Kathy Beard's mother's arm, so we could use the blood for mantochondral DNA.

DNA testing confirms the family's worst fears.

The body found on Party Hill is Kathy Beard.

It was an emotional, tearful event.

They knew that it was her.

And

the search for Kathy Beard was over.

My mom came home.

She was crying.

She told me that they had found Kathy.

I was saddened that she wasn't still alive,

but

happy that maybe they did find her and now some questions could be answered.

Kathy Beard's death was a homicide, and she suffered both blunt force trauma and shark force trauma.

The killer was still out.

Whoever was responsible for this was still out on the loose.

He was going to have sex with her that night, regardless.

A lot of times criminals will brag when they're incarcerated and say, oh, yeah, I did this, but I never got caught.

Three years after she vanished from a bar in Ort, Nebraska, Kathy Beard's remains have been found buried in a rancher's backyard.

And a homicide investigation is underway.

The ranch owners cooperated fully with law enforcement in this investigation.

There was no connection to Kathy Beard,

or it's quite possible that a body could be buried in this backyard for quite a long time and nobody notice it

because the land is so vast.

Detectives quickly turned their focus back to the two men who were strong early suspects: Glenn Hall and Rex White.

Mr.

Hall and Mr.

White had actually been to the someplace else tavern looking for Kathy Beard.

People at the bar overheard and questioning where's Kathy,

and the next thing that was reported was Kathy's disappearance.

And their employer had reported that he had overheard Rex White talking about how they had disposed of Kathy Bere

but the new investigation can't turn up any evidence connecting them to Kathy's murder.

Mr.

Hall and Mr.

White had taken a polygraph

and

turned out the polygraph came up negative.

Basically, we feel that Rex White is trying to sound tough and intimidate people.

As far as being suspects, they were discredited and disproved.

Investigators were also unable to find any new evidence connecting Kathy's murder to the popcorn seed salesman who claimed that Glenn and Rex robbed him, a crime for which they were never convicted.

In the end, there was no connection between the robbery and Kathy Beard's disappearance.

With their strongest potential suspects ruled out, the detectives go back to the witnesses who were in the bar the night Kathy vanished.

That includes John Oldson, the last person to report seeing Kathy.

They're stunned to discover that John is in jail, awaiting arraignment on sexual assault charges.

John's been arrested for sexually assaulting

a clerk at a gas station in Burwell.

When she left work, John had grabbed her, had forced her to the ground, lifted her shirt, rubbed her stomach, and she had tried to fight him off.

And once he did that, he turned and left.

The sexual assault charge raises red flags.

But when when detectives interview John in jail about what happened the night Kathy disappeared three years ago, his story doesn't change.

Donaldson's version of the events in the alley was that

he approached Kathy Beard for sexual relations.

She refused him.

She then went to a pickup with two other guys

and left with them.

Jerome Olakoviak, the man from the bar who also saw Kathy get into the truck, corroborated what John Olson's version was of what happened in that alley.

We had no evidence to dispute what he was telling us.

It was extremely frustrating for not only myself, but local law enforcement in Valley County and Ord and the family members that this was ongoing and unsolved.

In 2004, five years after Kathy vanished, her mother Vanita passes away, never knowing who is responsible for her daughter's murder.

She's laid to rest next to Kathy.

I know it was very difficult for the family.

I talked to some of them over the years.

The whole thing was very devastating,

but I think they all had hope.

The investigation stays cold for another six agonizing years.

Then, in 2010, the Nebraska State Patrol decides to try a new tactic to solve some of its cold cases.

I was contacted by Nebraska State Patrol about a set of cold case playing cards,

and each card had a cold case on it of an unsolved murder.

They would have details of the case, and they were distributed into the state prison.

A lot of times, criminals will brag when they're incarcerated and say, Oh, yeah, I did this, but I never got caught.

Kathy's case was on the two of spades,

and

a few months later, we did get a hit.

It fanned the plane and got the investigation rolling again.

21 years after Kathy Beard disappeared from a bar in Ord, Nebraska, there's a new lead.

It comes after police distributed playing cards featuring unsolved cases to prison inmates.

inmates.

It was

August of 2010.

I got assigned to follow up a lead that had come in as a result of an inmate at the Lancaster County Corrections

who viewed a playing card.

And he had heard about Kathy Beard from Org.

The cellmate who was incarcerated in Valley County with John Olson.

John Olson had made an admission to him regarding being involved with the death of Kathy Beard.

To the detective's frustration, the jailhouse informant refuses to testify in court.

But the tip refocuses their attention on John Olson.

And the deeper detectives delve, the more alarming John's story becomes.

We found out that John Olson went to prison in 2003

for

sticking hypodermic needles in his stepdaughter's midsection area.

John Olson got out of prison in 2005.

This was just so egregious and so abusive.

So they knew he was dangerous.

Investigators see a connection between John's stomach fetish and the evidence found with Kathy's remains two decades earlier.

The recovery of the sweater with the hole in the abdominal area made it suspicion that John Olson was directly involved with this

because of his two arrests where he assaulted women in the abdominal area.

We believed that the Kathy Beard having her sweater cut and the marks on her bones would indicate that he was pursuing a sexual fantasy.

We had evidence the whole time the tip that we got from the confidential informant was the key

but there's a problem with the investigators new theory of the murder john's claim to have seen kathy get into a truck with two men was confirmed by another eyewitness at the bar that night jerome koviak was the only person

that corroborated what happened in that alley.

Investigators take another look at Jerome's story and make a key discovery.

We had taken pictures of the bar inside and out and we compared them with photographs of it in 1989.

I explained to him there was no way he could see out the back window

and at that point He come clean and said he did not see that.

It never happened

He heard John talking about the pickup in the bar a couple days later

and had repeated it during the investigation.

I suspect that he was just trying to get attention.

John Oldson's alibi has just evaporated, but the case against him is more than 21 years old, and the evidence is purely circumstantial.

We never found anything during the investigation, DNA-wise or fiber or any otherwise that would link John Olson to the murder of Kathy Beard.

There simply wasn't anything.

DNA, unless it's protected, ain't gonna stay there forever.

It's gonna wash away.

Seeking more information about their suspect, police track down John's family.

His father died died several years earlier.

But his sister, who wasn't previously interviewed, has surprising new information for them.

She describes the lengths John went to clean his pickup truck the day after Kathy disappeared.

John had basically cleaned that whole pickup from stem to stern, including removing the seats and cleaning everything within the pickup.

It's very possible that John was cleaning up to hide any any type of evidence of blood or injury.

Then the investigation gets a jolt when a new witness comes forward.

Suzanne Pelster, a former resident of Ord, has a bone-chilling story to tell the police.

She overheard a conversation between

John Olson and his first wife.

Had an argument in the bar, and he told her to shut up or I'll do to you what I did to Kathy.

We brought it the circumstantial evidence that we had accumulated over the years to the county attorney.

There was a concern that we didn't have enough evidence and may be forced into a trial and lose it, and therefore never be able to prosecute him again.

But prosecutors conclude that the weight of the circumstantial evidence is enough.

As far as we know, there was really nobody else out in that alley.

John was the last person to see her alive.

The arrest warrant was issued.

We had a squad team of 15 to 20 members swarmed in and arrested John as he was driving down the street from his house.

He acted like he had been expecting it for some time.

I called Mary Kirby, Kathy's sister, and I told her, hey, we got John in custody.

She just said, thank you.

My mom, she's relieved that he finally got caught, and she was glad it was finally coming to an end, that they would bring justice for Kathy.

A trial date is set for March 2012.

But as prosecutors get ready, John Oldson's mother makes a stunning announcement.

She claims the post office has delivered an envelope to her with no return address containing proof that her son did not kill Kathy Beard.

What come out of the envelope was this long diary stating that these people that lived north of Erickson, Nebraska, had this sex slave ranch and they kept women incarcerated there and

Kathy Beard was one of the victims of this ranch.

This mysterious envelope showed up and we'd have to determine if this was a true diary.

It severely interfered with our prosecution.

You just got to really wonder that that diary is true.

This leads to a whole nother investigation.

On the eve of John Olson's murder trial, an anonymous letter containing diary pages threatens to upend the prosecution's case.

Its author claims Kathy Beard was held captive on a ranch 22 miles north of her hometown of Ord, Nebraska.

This so-called diary indicates that this rancher, Mr.

Bacchus and his wife, had abducted three women that they held as sex slaves and eventually killed them,

one of which was allegedly Kathy Beard.

These women were supposedly kept in a cave on the property.

Police rush to search the ranch property and learn Wetzel Backus died several years earlier.

But detectives interview his widow Jean,

who's now in her 80s.

They took her deposition.

She was a frail,

old lady.

And you're looking at her saying, I don't think so.

Not even in her youth.

The pages of the diary were handwritten, and the handwriting was not that of Jean Bacchus.

Yet the details of ranch life are specific.

The pages of the diary describe the neighbors, the terrain, and so on in relationship to where the Bacchuses live.

A pretty accurate description.

Whoever wrote the diary had day-to-day knowledge of life on the ranch.

Investigators asked Jean who might have a grudge against her.

Jean threw out Doug Olson's name.

Doug Oldson worked for Gene Bacchus at the Bacchus Ranch.

Gene tells the investigators that Doug Doug believed she cheated him out of part of the ranch he thought he would inherit after Wetzel Bacchus' death.

That envelope is taken to the State Patrol crime lab,

and they find Doug Olson's DNA on the flap of the envelope and or the stamp.

Doug Olson admits trying to ruin the Bacchus' reputation by tying them to the murderer.

He's charged with evidence tampering as the case against John moves forward.

We proved that IRE had nothing to do with Kathy Bierg.

Bottom line is, Kathy walked out the back door with John Olson and never returned.

In January 2013, the trial of John Olson is finally set to begin.

My mom wanted justice for Kathy.

She was glad it was finally coming to an end.

The investigation could not determine whether Kathy Beard was sexually assaulted because of the condition of her remains.

But the prosecutors paint a picture for the jury of what they believe happened on May 31st, 1989.

John Olson said he was getting a little bit aroused

when John Olson and Kathy Beard were in that bar.

he was going to have sex with her that night, regardless.

There was a struggle.

He hit her in the head.

He threw her in the pickup.

John Olson said, She said, no, no, John, please, no, no.

Well, I believe those were her last words.

After murdering her,

he then took her to the dump site.

He disposed of Kathy's body.

He felt safe that she would never be found because Party Hill was a remote area

and law enforcement was not typically driving by that location.

After a week and a half of testimony, the jury leaves to deliberate.

It takes them just six hours to decide John Oldson's fate.

The jury found him guilty of second-degree murder.

He is sentenced to life in prison.

You could just tell in the community that it was a brick off everybody's shoulders.

And to get justice for Kathy was what everybody wanted.

And

that was our goal, and that's what we got.

This woman should still be alive today.

I'm confident that the family and the community felt justice was served.

Everybody's much better with John in prison.

I think the world's better with John in prison.

Kathy was always one to help my mom.

They did about everything together.

My mom would like Kathy to be remembered as a good, kind person.

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