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 outside the box scheme to get hall, which would risk the life
so on august 3rd, 1998, federal marshals escorted jimmy into the psychiatric prison. once they stepped out the door, i was on my own. jimmy s cover story was that he was a convicted weapons runner whose 40 year sentence pushed him over the edge and landed him in the psych prison. a psych prison filled with killers. his one inside contact, the chief psychiatrist, couldn t protect him, nor could his outside lifeline, a female fbi agent who visited as his girlfriend to monitor his progress. i did have a hot line to her, too, if i got caught in a dangerous situation, i could get a hold of her. the deal was, they would have me out in 24 hours. they had your back. they had my back. least that s what you thought. that s what i thought. when keene s mission began, it was all about him, his shot at freedom. he had few feelings, if any, about tricia reitler or her family. all he wanted was to get in and
campus super market and never returned to her dorm. now nearly 20 years later, her parents are still waiting. you purchase a cemetery plot. yeah. no headstone. not until we find her. and we have no answers, and somebody out there, that s what eats at me, somebody out there has that answer for us. tricia reitler wasn t even prosecutor beaumont s case, but he was deeply moved by her parents. that was always a horrible crime to me. i knew about the facts of the case, and about the family. i didn t know the family but read about them, newspaper articles, accounts of them asking for help. beaumont felt certain that suspected serial killer larry hall was responsible. not only did hall live 25 minutes from indiana wesleyan, he had been identified chasing two co-eds there a week after tricia went missing. so in the summer of 1995, a month after convicting hall for jessie roach s murder, beaumont was leading a search for tricia. it was in those same indiana backwoods where hall
people typically don t admit murder, sexual assault and murders to police officers unless in fact they probably have done it, so it was clear we felt he was responsible for the tricia reitler disappearance. she had such a zest for life, and she walked in the room and everybody knew she was there. tricia reitler, a 19-year-old psych major at indiana wesleyan university was on the way to becoming a family counselor. her goal was to put families back together again. then in march, 1993, donna and gary reitler got that late night phone call every parent dreads. a cop from marion, indiana was on the line. said do you know where tricia is. in my heart i knew something was drastically wrong. tricia walked to an off
something happened with the message. at last, investigators got to search the woodshop and hall s cell, but by then, the map and falcons, items jimmy believed could lead to tricia, were gone. what were you thinking telling larry hall you re out of here and dressing him down? people wouldn t understand the mounting pressure, that kettle is ready to boil over at any time, you know, and it felt good to unload on the guy. the problem as i see it, you ve unloaded on him, he knows you re against him, but nobody has that map. right. i am disappointed i didn t wait another day or two at least. i should have waited a few more days. i wish i could have done more for them, but i did all i could do. i feel in my being i did all i could do. meantime, the people that would benefit the most from a successful mission, tricia s parents, only learned about the secret operation ten years later in 2008 when the story came out