falcons, you want to tell the fbi about it, right? i did i went to the hotline i had for the fbi girl i called i got some type of voice recording. it was after hours. so jimmy left a message for his fbi contact to come get him, the map and the falcons. his freedom and the answers to tricia s parents prayers were now just hours away. i was elated. i felt i wrapped this up. you re expecting troops to come marching in. expecting troops to come marching in. didn t quite work that way. what he couldn t know was his fbi contact didn t get his voice mail, and his one inside contact, the chief psychiatrist, was on vacation. then you got full of yourself, didn t you? i did i went back to my cell i was really happy 24 hours they said they would have me out of here, i got what they need, this was it i went across to his cell there. impulsively, jimmy decided he
killed this girl from the college over here. i says what happened there jimmy couldn t be sure how hall would react had he been too blunt, too direct no it was all clicking. according to jimmy, hall began to open up about tricia and said he drove his van right up to her that day he saw her outside school he said he tried to kiss her and when he did, she started fighting very violently. he said she was a very strong girl, and she fought stronger than anybody fought before. did he admit it he said he had killed her and he knew he had done it again. these are his words, that he knew he had done it again, and he said he went way out in the woods and buried her way out in the woods. hall gave a general location for tricia s body, near a river in indiana but jimmy needed more specific information. luckily, he seemed to stumble into it a few nights later when he spotted hall inside the prison wood shop, a restricted area there s nobody at the door, no guards or anything.
that point miller testified that in his confession, hall gave him a detail that only the killer would know, that jessie was not riding her bike but walking it, a safety precaution the roaches insisted she follow on their narrow road. that was never in the press that she was walking her bike that day. right. when you heard that, did that give more credence to the story? oh, yeah, that just sealed it for me i knew, i knew that he was the one. a jury unanimously agreed it took just three hours to convict larry hall but prosecutor beaumont believed this was just the tip of the iceberg. he felt certain hall was a serial killer, and now he had to find a way to prove it so he began investigating tricia reitler s abduction, a case that wasn t his for a family he didn t know. i can t imagine sending my daughter to school and never seeing her again. and he came up with an
all he wanted was to get in and out with tricia s location and as fast as possible. day one, breakfast in the mess hall jimmy zeroed in on larry hall. i was waiting with my tray, i look over, there he is, 20, 25 feet from me, sitting there all by himself it felt like a magnet was compelling me to come to him finally i bumped shoulders with him on purpose. jimmy explained he was a brand-new inmate needing directions to the library. hall obliged. kind of slapped him on the shoulder and said, thanks a lot, i appreciate that from a cool guy like you. after that, they occasionally talked but the next step came when jimmy was invited to join hall s breakfast club. in the prison system, that s a big thing of who you re invited to have your breakfast with. keene thought he was making progress but then prison politics got in the way. i left out of the chow hall one morning and a few big
would set him off. as soon as i did, he took a wild heymaker swing as me, i kicked him through two or three rows of chairs and i beat him to a pulp. hall had a ring side-view of that event afterward, he staunchly defended him as retaliator, not instigator you re larry hall s new hero? yes, i became his new best friend and hero, too jimmy could sense his heroics brought him closer to hall now he was ready to make a bold move in the prison library, jimmy figured out a strategy to draw hall out on tricia reitler. i noticed he was reading his hometown newspaper and that was really important eventually for me to crack into his psyche even though the goal was tricia s body, jimmy decided to ask first about something already public knowledge