Keith Morrison

For years.

Rhonda Martin, Kent's high school girlfriend, finally got the news with everyone else in 2014.

After 16 years behind bars, Sante Kimes died.

Are you more comfortable now?

Yes, because she's dead.

Wow, that's saying something, isn't it?

A woman who charmed and harmed, whose death, even for the son who ran from her all those years ago, was very, very hard.

I knew I was the only person on this planet that would feel pain from it.

And, you know, one thing I'll never apologize for is loving my mother.

Though there is Kenny, so Kent is not the only son to feel the pain.

I still carry a lot of guilt with Kenny.

I mean, it's my biggest regret not trying harder to pull him from that grass.

But I was outmatched.

Mom's strong with me in that department.

Today, Kenny Kimes is a middle-aged man serving his time in a prison in San Diego.

He agreed to speak with us on the phone, which is what the California prison system allows.

But this would be his first recorded interview since the day he took that court TV reporter hostage a quarter century ago.

And it was a much different Kenny this time.

This was his reason for talking to us, to tell us he had come up with, on his own, a grand idea.

Just how did this convicted killer plan to raise a million while in prison for life?