 PLOT: In the beginning of the film a number of newspaper headlines  are shown including one that reads "Killer Sentenced to Life in  Mental Institution." Yet later in the film Jim says that he read an  article about the event that said that the killer had died. Bill  then reveals that the media had reported that the killer had been  killed, and the fact that he was locked up in a mental institution  was a secret known only to people involved in the case.