[Diana] He had lots of girlfriends.
All the girls loved Harvey.
[Dora] Then he met Melissa
and he only had eyes for her.
[Faith] They fell hard and they fell fast.
[Diana] And they were kind of like
attached at the hip.
[Faith] But when Harvey Huber disappears.
[Dora] I called Melissa, I said,
"What do you mean Harvey is missing?"
[Faith] The cracks are exposed for all to see.
[Rex] Nobody knew that there was anything wrong.
[Reid] Right away, things didn't seem right.
[Kirby] Did she say something?
Did she help plan this?
[Faith] With multiple suspects,
will investigators manage to unearth the truth?
[Reid] I may have found something in this tunnel.
[Faith] Of this killer relationship.
- It was horrible.
[dramatic music]
- In the movies, high school sweethearts
almost always live happily ever after.
But in real life,
fewer than 2% of teenage romances actually last.
Which is why the story of Harvey and Melissa Huber
is so extraordinary.
After high school, they go on to enjoy a 30-year marriage,
two children, five grandchildren,
and a thriving business they built from the ground up.
So with such a strong foundation,
how did this fairytale romance lead to such a heartbreaking
and violent end?
[eerie music]
[upbeat country music]
[Dora] Harvey was born in Austin, Texas.
He was the only boy with five sisters.
Oh my gosh.
He was spoiled rotten
and he was so cute.
[Rick] He was probably four years old
when we moved out to Liberty Hill.
His mom and daddy were divorced.
He wanted to be with us.
He was like a little brother slash son to me.
I taught him how to fish.
I taught him how to hunt.
I taught him how to be a mechanic.
Everything that he'd done as a man,
I taught him how to do.
[gentle music]
[Diana] There were kids that we went to school with
that were terribly picked on because they didn't have water.
They had to take baths in the river
and people wouldn't let 'em sit with us on the bus
and Harvey would stand up for these people
and he had the underdogs' back.
He was just all around kind that way.
- Harvey, when he was in high school, he was very popular.
[upbeat music]
Everybody liked him.
The girls really liked him a lot.
[Dora] But he only had eyes for Melissa at that point.
[Diana] Harvey and Melissa lived a couple blocks
away from each other
and they met probably when Harvey was about 18
and they were kind of like
attached at the hip.
[Rick] They used to like to go dancing and stuff
and they went to the movie some,
they went to the rodeos and the stuff you do here in Texas.
[Dora] Harvey was so outgoing
and he was so goofy,
but I think that's what Melissa liked in him,
plus, he was a good-looking guy.
[Diana] She was really pretty.
She looked like Trisha Yearwood back in the day.
[Dora] I think it was a little bit after high school.
Melissa got pregnant with Shelby.
[Diana] Harvey and Melissa's daughter, Shelby,
was born in 1989.
And then Harvey and Melissa got married in 1990,
a year after Shelby Anna was born.
[Dora] Harvey and Melissa
were having a hard time making it,
making ends meet
because jobs were hard back then for everybody.
[gentle music]
- The young couple settled just 30 or so miles from Austin
in Liberty Hill.
Today it's a booming suburb,
but back in the early '90s,
this was as remote as it gets.
There simply weren't many opportunities.
But Harvey perseveres and he eventually lands a job
as a mechanic.
[upbeat country music]
[Rex] Harvey's dream was always to have his own shop,
to have his own place.
- Harvey loved working on cars.
Oh my gosh, every time we went over there,
he was greasy and he had no fingernails
'cause he had to cut 'em back so far.
[Rick] In 1997, they had Phillip, their son,
and Harvey was very excited to have a son.
It was probably one of the biggest days of Harvey's life.
[Dora] Harvey got those kids anything they wanted.
Harvey had to go without,
but his children
never went without.
[Faith] In 2000, Harvey's dream becomes a reality
with the opening of Huber Auto Repair in Georgetown,
the larger city right next door to Liberty Hill.
- When Harvey first started his shop,
he was working seven days a week.
And I mean he grew, he grew really fast.
[Dora] He got to the point where he had built it so much,
he couldn't keep up with the phones.
So Melissa started answering the phones.
That helped out tremendously.
- Melissa, I give her credit,
she did help get that business on its feet
and started running it right.
[Dora] And the marriage seemed to get stronger
when Melissa came there.
[Faith] Harvey has come a long way
from his humble beginnings
and though so much has changed
since he was a little boy in Liberty Hill,
one thing remains,
Harvey still looks out for the underdog.
[upbeat country music]
[Rick] People would come to his shop
and he would fix their cars and they would say,
"Harvey, I can't pay you."
It's okay, just take your car and pay me when you can.
He thought he could fix anybody.
[Faith] Harvey's inclination to help others
draws many to him and they know where to find him.
Huber Auto is not only a workplace,
but a gathering place,
and all are welcome.
[Rick] Harvey, he loved to be surrounded by friends.
At the end of the day,
he'd go get a case of beer or whatever
and then all his buddies would show up,
and even his workers would stay
and have a few beers with him,
and it was almost a daily thing.
He liked his beer
and he liked to drink a little whiskey there now and then.
[Dora] Harvey did drink and, you know,
he could be excessive to say the least.
- Did he drink too much?
Maybe.
[somber music]
Sometime Harvey's drinking bugged Melissa
because it would make him stay at the shop all night
'cause he wouldn't drive after he got to drinking, you know?
[Dora] I don't know what they would fight about,
for real, I don't,
but they did fight.
- I think they kept that part behind closed doors a lot.
- Nobody,
nobody knew that there was anything wrong.
[ominous music]
[Dora] February the 26th of 2020,
Rick gets a phone call from little Phillip, Harvey's son,
and he says, "My dad is missing."
[Rick] And I said, "Well, did you check around?"
He said, "Yeah, we looked everywhere,
we can't find him."
[Dora] So I called Melissa, I said,
"What do you mean Harvey is missing?"
She said something in the order of, "I can't do this."
And she handed the phone to Shelby and I said,
"Shelby, where's your daddy?"
And she said, "We don't know where he is."
I said, "What do you mean you don't know where he is?"
And she said, "He didn't come home."
And I said, "Did you call the cops?"
And she said, "We haven't called 'em yet."
And I said, "Y'all need to call the cops."
[dramatic music]
[Diana] Melissa didn't search.
She was there, but she didn't go.
[Kirby] The argument gets really heated.
He was the last one to see Harvey.
[Reid] It's pitch black.
I get my rifle,
I go down into this tunnel.
- You can usually set a clock
by Harvey Huber's daily routine.
Every morning without fail,
Harvey opens his shop by 7:30 AM.
But on Wednesday, February 26th,
he never shows up for work.
In fact, his family hasn't heard a word from him
since Tuesday night.
By the afternoon, Harvey's wife, Melissa,
is worried enough to call the police.
[dramatic music]
- On February 26th, 2020,
I was notified of a
missing person's case
down at Huber Automotive.
Melissa explained to me that Harvey was last seen
the night before at his shop.
- When the mechanics arrived for work,
they noticed that front door was broken.
- The truck was there,
his keys and wallet were there.
- So if something happened to him,
it wasn't a robbery.
In the shop, they found his keys,
his cigarettes and his cell phone.
And I learned that Harvey had made several phone calls
to Melissa the night before.
- She said there are times that
he does get intoxicated at his shop.
And he's been known to walk home
about 20 miles to Bartlett, Texas.
People do strange things.
- Speaking to Melissa, she was concerned.
[dramatic music]
I did not see any blood,
did not see any other damage.
So it was hard to say that something had
happened to Harvey.
My initial feeling was that we would find Harvey
sleeping it off alongside the road alive,
that's what we were hoping.
- Huber Automotive is a good-size piece of property
with the shop up front
and storage for vehicles in the back.
Officers walked the perimeter of the fence
and they checked the vehicles.
Harvey wasn't on the property, but.
- When I was told about the tarp missing,
I did have two different feelings.
I said, "It could be Harvey took the tarp with him
as a windbreaker to walk home,
or maybe this is a sign
that something more ominous has happened.
So we were speaking with everybody,
trying to find any information,
any clues on what could have happened.
- And it was explained to me
that it was a normal Tuesday afternoon.
Friends come over at the end of the day,
they drink a little beer or whiskey and just talk shop
until Josh got into an argument with Harvey.
- People started to go home.
Once everybody left,
it was just Josh and Harvey at the shop.
[Kirby] The argument gets heated.
From my understanding,
Harvey was trying to get Josh to do more,
to get more certifications so he can support himself
to make something out of himself.
[Kirby] And so that left Harvey at the shop by himself.
So Josh was the last one to see Harvey.
So we learned that
Josh Northcutt is a 25-year-old male
who works for Harvey.
Harvey and Melissa were like his parents.
[Kirby] Well, in the moment,
I believed that Josh was telling me the truth.
But I told him, I said,
"Hey, we need to have a little bit more of a conversation."
[Faith] Detective Shoemake also wants to speak
with any other friends who dropped by the shop
the night before,
including frequent customer, Dan Adams,
and tow truck driver, Jimmy Tschoerner.
[Kirby] We learned Jimmy was the last person
to see the argument between Harvey and Josh.
And I told him, I said,
"I'm gonna probably wanna talk to you later."
We don't have a time period
on when somebody has to be missing.
When the report is filed, the investigation begins.
So once I did the initial interviews,
we listed Harvey as a missing person.
- Statistics will tell you that most adults who go missing
show up within a day or two.
Sometimes they just wanna take a break.
But that's cold comfort
for the loved ones left behind to worry.
As the sun sets on the first 24 hours
of Harvey's disappearance,
his increasingly frantic family calls a meeting
at Huber Auto.
They need a plan to find him.
[Reva] We were like, "Okay, Harvey, where are you?"
And Melissa kept saying, "Oh, sometimes he's walked home."
[Rick] I didn't know what to think.
It was cold and he could be out there freezing to death.
- Okay, so let's make a posse.
And it was getting dark.
So we grabbed what flashlights we could.
[Rick] We looked in every pipe, under every bridge.
We looked in every barn,
everything that we came up on from Georgetown
to Bartlett, Texas looking for Harvey.
[Dora] I'm thinking maybe Harvey fell
and he broke his leg really bad,
so I started screaming for him everywhere we were walking.
- All we could do was walk and look and cry and wonder,
"Where is he?"
[Faith] The desperate search for Harvey
lasts deep into the night.
But there's one family member conspicuously absent.
[Diana] Melissa didn't search.
She was there at the shop,
but she didn't go.
[Reva] She never looked.
I was like,
"Why? I mean, this is your husband."
[Dora] She said, "Harvey wouldn't want me
to leave the shop."
And about that time,
Shelby Anna got there
and she said, "Is our pizza here yet?"
And I said,
"Pizza?!"
And we left.
It was horrible.
And we hollered and we walked
and they stayed there and ate pizza.
[dramatic music]
[Rex] Where, where is he?
Is he in the sand and gravel pit?
Is he in a shallow grave?
Something is horribly wrong.
[eerie music]
- By Thursday, February 27th,
Harvey Huber has been missing for 36 hours.
His friends and family continue their harrowing search.
But one person stays behind,
Harvey's wife, Melissa.
Maybe she's in denial about the seriousness
of the situation,
or maybe she knows more than she's letting on.
After all, if Harvey is the victim of a crime,
the significant other is almost always
the first potential suspect.
[Diana] Everybody deals with things differently.
But if it were me, I would've been looking.
[Kirby] Melissa wasn't out looking for Harvey.
It was almost like she had already known
what had happened to him.
When we asked for an interview,
"Melissa, you asked for a lawyer.
It is not common for a spouse to hire an attorney
for a missing person if they're trying to help find them,
and that's all we were trying to do."
We just wanted basic information
and yet she didn't wanna speak to us.
[Faith] So Detective Shoemake heads back to Huber Auto
to speak with Josh Northcutt,
the last person to lay eyes on Harvey.
[Kirby] So we talked to Josh again
and his story was still the same.
At around 9:00 PM, Josh got into an argument with Harvey
and that is when Harvey tells Josh to leave.
I asked Josh where he went after he left.
He decided to walk to his friend's shop, Dan Adams,
which is not but maybe 100 yards from Huber Automotive.
Josh stayed the night at the shop with Dan.
Dan confirmed this.
[Faith] Though Dan corroborates Josh's story,
Detective Shoemake wants digital proof of his whereabouts
in order to clear him as a person of interest.
[Kirby] One way to find out where people go now
is you ask for their cell phone.
Cell phone knows all.
[Faith] The 25-year-old agrees to release his phone,
but processing his cell data could take days.
While he waits, Detective Shoemake wants
to question the man who witnessed the argument
between Harvey and Josh,
47-year-old Jimmy Tschoerner.
[dramatic music]
[Kirby] I was told it's not unusual
to see Jimmy at Huber Automotive
because Harvey's the one that gave him a chance.
[Rick] He was living on the street.
He came by Harvey's shop looking for work,
told Harvey his situation.
He took Jimmy in and gave him whatever he needed.
He even got him a job
working for a towing company there in Georgetown.
[Kirby] So during the interview with Jimmy,
he explained that on the night that Harvey went missing,
Jimmy was on call for Tip Tow,
the tow truck company.
He said he was at Huber Automotive
hanging out with everybody.
Jimmy saw Josh get into an argument with Harvey.
The argument gets real heated,
and that is when Jimmy said he left.
[Faith] But what Jimmy says next
turns the investigation timeline upside down.
[dramatic music]
[Kirby] Jimmy told me that he returned to Huber Automotive
after Josh had left.
He came back to the shop to check on Harvey
because he knew he was intoxicated,
but Harvey just yelled at him through the door,
so he just left at around 10 o'clock.
So, now we knew Jimmy was the last person
to see Harvey alive,
but it still didn't rule Josh out.
And Melissa wasn't ruled out as a suspect.
[Faith] Jimmy hasn't been ruled out either.
Before Detective Shoemake is done speaking with him,
he wants to verify Jimmy's movements
on the night Harvey went missing.
[Kirby] I ask Jimmy if his truck was equipped with GPS,
and he says it was.
So I called Trey, the owner of Tip Tow,
and he said he didn't have the GPS information.
And I'm just thinking that's just my luck,
it's just the way it goes.
So Trey said, "Hey, but the truck's here at our shop
if you wanna come look at it."
[Faith] Detective Shoemake may not have been lucky
with the GPS information,
but when he arrives at Tip Tow around 6:00 PM,
he discovers something even more compelling.
[Kirby] We get around to the bed,
Trey looks at the bed of the tow truck and said,
"The fluid on the bed of the tow truck,
that's not oil or hydraulic fluid,
that's not supposed to be there."
[ominous music]
And we looked at it closer,
and it appeared to be blood.
[ominous music]
So we called out a crime scene unit to test the fluid
and it was a preliminary positive test for human blood.
So we're like, "Okay, now we're truly looking
at possible homicide at this point."
[Faith] It's human blood, but is it Harvey's blood?
To be sure, investigators send a sample to the lab
for DNA testing,
but results could take weeks.
This dark turn in Harvey's story is a big deal
for a small police force with one lone detective
working the case.
And in Texas, that usually means only one thing.
[Kirby] This was my first homicide and I needed help.
So we contacted Texas Rangers to come in and assist.
[dramatic music]
[Reid] Texas Rangers are tasked
with investigating violent crimes,
heinous crimes against people.
[dramatic music]
I received the call,
and at 12:06 AM
on February 28th,
I sit down with Jimmy for an interview.
- And right away, things didn't seem right.
- I learned that he is not your average person.
[Reid] He doesn't live in a home,
he doesn't have an apartment.
He sleeps in trucks and tunnels
and he was a free spirit.
- Jimmy was insistent
that he had nothing to do with Harvey's disappearance.
So, I questioned Jimmy about the evening hours
of February 25th,
but Jimmy would not tell me where he went.
Jimmy consented to his phone being searched
and his phone was collected for processing
to help us determine where he went
after he left Harvey's shop.
[Faith] Ranger Rackley questions Jimmy
for a little more than an hour,
but just as the interview is wrapping up,
he throws out one more question,
and what he gets back shocks even this seasoned veteran.
[ominous music]
- It's been more than two days since Harvey Huber went missing.
And Texas Ranger Reid Rackley is stunned to learn
that Harvey's friend, Jimmy Tschoerner,
has been having an affair with Harvey's wife, Melissa.
That, along with the blood found on his truck bed,
makes Jimmy suspect number one.
Is it possible that Jimmy killed for love?
And is it possible Melissa was in on it?
[Reid] It had to be considered
that Jimmy saw Harvey as an obstacle.
And so we definitely considered that as a motive.
[Kirby] Now we had to determine
if Melissa had any involvement
in the disappearance of Harvey.
[dramatic music]
We ended the interview about 4:00 AM.
I just didn't have any probable cause to arrest him.
So I released him.
[Faith] With Jimmy now officially a suspect,
he's put under surveillance,
and just a few hours later, at 8:45 AM,
it's Melissa who's in the hot seat.
Although she was previously reluctant
to talk to investigators,
at this point, she and her lawyer consent to an interview
with Ranger Rackley
and his colleague Ranger Veronica Gideon.
- Melissa is calm, she's collected.
[dramatic music]
- Did Melissa conspire with Jimmy
to get rid of Harvey?
That's something that we had to consider.
So we asked Melissa for her phone to look for location data
and Melissa allowed us to search her phone,
but it takes time for processing.
So Melissa was free to leave.
[Diana] Why she had the affair with Jimmy?
I don't know.
We were shocked because we didn't see that coming.
- I just said, "No, there's no way," you know?
Because you don't wanna believe that.
Why would she go with someone like that when she has Harvey?
[Faith] With police keeping a tail
on their lead suspect, Jimmy Tschoerner,
and serious questions still hovering
over Melissa Huber and Josh Northcutt,
the agonizing search for Harvey continues.
[Diana] With each hour, each minute,
you just feel like we've gotta find him.
I mean it's just the sickest feeling in your gut.
[somber music]
- Searching for Harvey was almost like living a nightmare.
How do you prepare yourself to lift up a board or something
and there's a dead body?
[helicopter whirring]
[Dora] Did someone hurt him?
You can't sleep because you start thinking of another part
that might have happened.
- By Sunday, five days have passed since Harvey vanished.
His distraught family is trying to hold onto hope,
but law enforcement still has no clue where he is.
[Reid] We were working 20-hour days.
I'm just searching for something
that would help me find Harvey.
Then, I received the download
from Jimmy's phone...
[dramatic music]
and this data
is voluminous.
It's safe to say that there's 100,000 folders to go through.
[Faith] While Rackley and his team
begin the painstaking process of analyzing Jimmy's data,
they also get back cell phone records for Josh Northcutt,
the family friend who got into an argument with Harvey
the night of his disappearance.
[Reid] When we further analyzed
the location data from Josh's phone,
it confirmed that he hadn't left Dan's shop.
[Kirby] We believed he told us the truth the whole time.
So Josh was no longer a suspect.
[Reid] I went home very late.
I couldn't sleep.
So I'm going through the data on Jimmy's phone.
I'm reviewing text messages between Melissa and Jimmy.
Jimmy is referencing a tunnel.
Jimmy had mentioned to me
that he had slept in tunnels previously.
What tunnel could he be talking about?
[dramatic music]
Earlier, we had gone out and searched along Interstate 35
within this large radius.
And I did see a drainage tunnel.
I figured this is the best information we have.
So,
I drove to this tunnel.
It was about 3:00 AM
and I'm by myself.
It's pitch black.
I get my rifle.
I sling it across my chest.
I get my flashlight
and I go down into this tunnel.
[eerie music]
I walk up and down,
and it's long, it's three, 400 yards,
and I don't find Harvey.
So I started heading back to my unit.
And as I got towards the entrance of the tunnel,
about 10 feet inside,
I noticed that discoloration in the dirt
on the ground.
[dramatic music]
[Kirby] The bone fragments were from a human skull.
- It just hurts.
It hurts your heart so bad.
[crickets chirp]
[Faith] Harvey Huber's family,
along with multiple law enforcement agencies,
has been searching for the
50-year-old father and grandfather
for nearly a week with no sign of him.
On Monday, March 2nd, 2020,
Texas Ranger Reid Rackley races to a drainage tunnel
off Interstate 35 in Georgetown, Texas.
He has an early morning hunch and needs to find out
if his instincts will lead to Harvey's body.
[ominous music]
- It was dark.
I had a flashlight.
But it's still hard to see.
And about 10 feet inside,
I noticed this large brownish,
reddish stain in the dirt
like someone had spilled something on the ground.
So I headed over to Georgetown PD
and I gathered everybody together and I said,
"Guys, we may have found something in this tunnel."
- It was huge news to us.
So we responded out to the tunnel.
We had crime scene technicians test the spot on the ground
that we had believed was blood
and we had a presumptive positive test for human blood.
- By this time, the sun was coming up.
We found more bloodstains
And we also found indentions in the dirt
that were consistent with an edged object hitting the dirt.
- It was little chips, it could have been an ax,
a hatchet, a saw.
[Reid] It indicated to us that
someone could have been dismembered.
And then we found what we thought was bone.
The biggest piece was about the size of a silver dollar.
[Kirby] We collected the bone fragments from the scene
and had them taken to Texas State University
where they were examined by an expert
who told us the bone fragments were from a human skull.
We don't know it's Harvey at that time.
We had to prove that through DNA.
[suspenseful music]
[Faith] On Wednesday morning,
armed with the fully analyzed GPS data from Jimmy's phone,
the investigators go hunting for surveillance video.
[Kirby] We're gonna collect video
where the GPS says where Jimmy went.
[Reid] We found incredible evidence
showing Jimmy driving his wrecker
at the time that he was working
with an object on the back.
And there there's a tarp covering this object...
the missing tarp that we couldn't find
at Huber Automotive.
[beeping]
This object is in the same location where we had found
the blood on the back of his truck.
So the pieces of the puzzle were definitely coming together.
[dramatic music]
[Faith] On Wednesday, March 4th,
eight days after Harvey went missing,
Jimmy Tschoerner is taken into custody
and charged with tampering with a human corpse.
- And Jimmy's phone showed within a matter of feet,
that he was in the tunnel
at the exact location of the dismemberment.
[dramatic music]
[somber music]
[Rex] For one person
to come up and think to do that to another person.
I mean, who can do this?
Who?
[Diana] Now we knew Harvey was dead.
We still wanted, you know,
in the back of your mind, him to walk through the door.
But Uncle Harvey was
gone.
[Kirby] Jimmy wasn't charged with murder yet
because we had to prove that the blood and skull fragments
belonged to Harvey,
and we had to do that through DNA.
- With Jimmy locked away
in the Williamson County Jail until his trial date,
investigators still don't have all the answers.
For one thing, if Harvey wasn't murdered in the tunnel,
where exactly was he killed?
[Reid] We believed that when Harvey was on the back
of that tow truck,
that Harvey was already dead.
So there had to be another crime scene.
And after we got back the data analysis
from Jimmy's phone,
we found on the night that Harvey went missing,
Jimmy was actively walking around Huber Automotive.
[Kirby] We had obtained GPS plots
that concentrated in a certain area near the RV.
Once we got to the RV area,
I looked down and I saw some
metal tin on the ground by the door to the RV.
It was weird that we missed that before,
but we did.
[Reid] So Detective Shoemake
lifted up some of those panels
and found a large area on the ground
stained with what we later discovered was blood.
[suspenseful music]
[Kirby] So we now had the location
that we believe Harvey was killed.
[dramatic music]
[Faith] And with that, all that's left
is the burning question.
Did Melissa play a part in Harvey's disappearance?
[Kirby] Did she say something?
Did she help plan this?
Did she have any other information
about what Jimmy did to Harvey?
[Faith] On March 12th, one week after Jimmy's arrest,
Melissa Huber sits down for a follow-up interview.
[dramatic music]
[eerie music]
- More than two weeks after Harvey Huber disappears,
his good friend, Jimmy Tschoerner,
hasn't yet been charged with Harvey's murder,
but he is in custody for tampering with a human corpse.
What remains unclear is if Jimmy acted alone,
or is Harvey's wife Melissa,
Jimmy's lover, somehow involved?
At the station, Ranger Rackley confronts Melissa
about what she told Jimmy
the night Harvey went missing.
- Although the optics might look bad,
the facts are what matter.
And the cell phone data showed that Melissa was at home
on the night of the murder.
There was no evidence that Melissa planned or asked Jimmy
to commit this crime.
[Faith] With Melissa officially cleared as a suspect,
investigators are confident
that Jimmy and Jimmy alone
killed Harvey.
By September, 2020, they believe they've collected
enough circumstantial evidence to convince a jury,
especially once they received
the most crucial evidence of all.
- The results from the DNA lab
showed that the blood from Jimmy's tow truck
and skull fragments we collected
were Harvey's.
[Faith] On September 11th,
six-and-a-half months after Harvey Huber vanished,
Jimmy Tschoerner is charged with first-degree murder.
The trial is set for the spring of 2022,
but days before opening arguments commence,
Jimmy takes a deal.
He's facing life,
but pleads guilty in exchange for a 60-year sentence.
- Jimmy agreed to take a plea bargain.
And part of the plea bargain is, is he had to say what happened.
- Jimmy had written a confession letter
and submitted it to the judge.
[Rick] In the confession letter,
Jimmy said that he got an axe.
And he goes back to Harvey's shop and said,
"Hey Harvey, somebody's breaking into the cars back there."
And he said Harvey jumps up and runs back there to catch 'em
and he follows him back there.
And he said, "They're hiding under this motor home here."
And this is his exact word.
He said, "Harvey bends over to look under the motor home."
He said, "I chopped him in the head three times
and he was dead."
[Reid] That letter also provides some more details
about what he did with Harvey's body,
where he disposed of him in various dumpsters
around the city of Georgetown.
Now his body is in the landfill
and we will never be able to recover Harvey.
[somber music]
[Diana] I think that deep down in Jimmy's heart,
he thought he was gonna be able to be with Melissa.
He wanted to have Melissa and he felt
like they could run that business together
and his world would be perfect.
- It just hurts.
It hurts your heart so bad.
Someone that he helped so much
would do something like that to him.
[Diana] I'll miss hugging him.
He gave really good hugs.
And if I would've known that the last time,
I would've-
would've hugged him harder.
- For his caring ways and for the goodness
that he showed people,
that's how I want Harvey to be remembered.
He's a good person.
- Harvey Huber was a warm, sweet soul
who was passionate about his friends, his family,
and most of all, the woman he fell for back in high school.
Sadly, Harvey's love couldn't save his fairytale romance
and his loyal friendship couldn't save his life.
Instead of happily ever after,
his story ends in tragedy because of a
killer relationship.