Quite frankly, I find this whole thread difficult to follow. Probably because of all the supposed killers and conspirators. The above post indicates that your father is included in the ABC I-Team expose as one of the ten persons mentioned. I find it unusual that you refuse to state your father's name. I looked for the picture of him mentioned and could not find it. Below is a link to the 31 March 2005 article referenced.
This article lists the following persons as responsible for the death of Helen Brach:
Joe Plemmons - horse trainer/informant
Silas Jayne
Frank Jayne, Jr.
Jack Matlick
Lee Reiter - Skokie Police Sergeant
Curt Hansen - stable worker
Ken Hansen - stable worker
Tony "The Ant" Spilotro - mafia
Victor P. Spilotro - mafia
Unidentified woman
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ABC 7 I-Team learns identities of people reportedly behind Helen Brach's murder
by Chuck Goudie
March 31, 2005 - Federal law enforcement authorities say it took ten people to pull off one of Chicago's most mysterious murders-the long unsolved disappearance of Helen Brach, heir to the Brach Candy fortune. The ABC7 I-Team has learned the identities of those people that federal agents said are responsible for Brach's death.
Helen Voorhees Brach was put to death by people she knew and once trusted, according to one of the ten alleged participants who has admitted involvement and is now cooperating with authorities. It was a frigid February day in 1977 that would be her last on earth. The informant told federal agents -- and the agents now believe -- that the beginning of the end for Brach that day was at the hands of a Skokie police sergeant. A policeman, two mobsters, some powerful horse owners and their stable hands and Helen Brach's Butler were behind the murder of the candy heiress. That's the story according to horse trainer Joe Plemmons, whom federal agents say has unlocked the mystery of Helen Brach's disappearance.
When the I-Team talked to Plemmons a few weeks ago in Florida, he declined to name names. In law enforcement reports filed in federal court had the names Plemmons provided blacked out. However, the I-Team has reviewed a clean copy.According to the un-redacted ATF report on the Plemmons' interviews:
The Reported Masterminds:
Silas Jayne and his nephew Frank Jayne, Jr. According to the interviews with Plemmons summarized in the ATF's report, the notorious Jaynes had Brach murdered to prevent her from exposing how they had cheated her out of millions of dollars during crooked horse deals. Silas Jayne is dead. Frank Jr. is serving an Illinois prison sentence for arson and has always denied any role in the Brach murder.
The Butler:
Jack Matlick, Brach's trusted major domo betrayed her, according to Plemmons. Authorities believe Matlick drove Brach home from a physical at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and put her in the hands of her killers. Matlick lives in Butler, Pennsylvania, in a senior citizen building. When the I-Team paid him a visit recently, Matlick refused to comment and slammed his front door.
The Reported Killers:
There were two actual killers according to the interviews summarized in the report: then Skokie Police Sergeant Lee Reiter and the informant, horseman Joe Plemmons, himself. Sergeant Reiter was frequently a Jayne family bodyguard and a close ally. In the federal report, Plemmons said that the Jayne's paid Reiter between $350,000 and $750,000 to beat Brach unconscious at her home in suburban Glenview. Then, he says Reiter rolled her up in a blanket and that Frank Jayne Jr. and a stable worker transported her to a Tinley Park horse stable.Plemmons told authorities that he saw Brach's battered body in the car trunk and thought she was dead until she moaned. Plemmons says stable workers, brothers Ken and Curt Hansen, were with him and that Curt pointed a shotgun at him, handed him a revolver and forced him to fire two shots into Brach through the blanket. Ex-policeman Reiter now lives in Mexico and has always denied any role in the Brach murder.
The Reported Disposal Team:
According to Plemmons, the disposal team included himself, Jayne Jr., and the Hansen brothers, along with two members of the infamous Spilotro organized crime family. Plemmons says Tony "The Ant" Spilotro and his brother, Victor P., arranged for the cremation of Brach's remains inside a northwest Indiana steel mill. A blast furnace is where Plemmons said he and the Hansen brothers tossed Brach's body as Frank Jayne Jr. happily looked on. Curt Hansen is dead. His brother, Ken, in prison for killing three young boys, denies a hand in the Brach killing.
The Mystery Woman: The tenth alleged Brach conspirator was a woman and she is not identified in the report because Plemmons says he doesn't know who she was. She remains a mystery to law enforcement but is believed to have used Helen Brach's return plane ticket from the Mayo Clinic that day in February 1977, when Brach was being driven to her death. Brach's body has never been found, nor has any weapon. The Cook County state's attorney is still trying to figure out what to do with this new information.
Link
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=investigative&id=3350786