not a cent more. family is important to us. and we d like you to be part of ours. so happy holidays. and welcome to the family. the chevy family! get the chevy employee discount for everyone today. jimmy kean answer five months of hell and five months making nice to a killer he despised had finally paid off. hal had described in gruesome detail how he murdered jessie roach. i open that door, he s feeling that he can trust me enough now. but jimmy felt he needed to wait a bit before going for the goal line. how did you brooch tricia
indiana authorities he dreamt he killed and buried tricia. i wanted to feel like i did everything i could to see if we could find her body. but after two days searching in sweltering heat and humidity, tricia s body didn t turn up. we couldn t find anything. doesn t mean it wasn t there. then beaumont decided to try something completely different. i came up with the idea of putting somebody in the prison cell with him to see if we could get him to tell us what he did with tricia reitler. they think you were crazy? most people did think we were crazy. i was able to convince them we should do it anyway. enter jimmy keene, the drug dealer beaumont had just convicted and sent to a low security prison. why did he stick out in your mind? because i knew he was kind of a con man, he was smart. i knew if anybody could pull it off, he would probably be the one to pull it off. he said you have been trained in martial arts and you can go into a dangerous environment many can t
once you see the map, the 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, was 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.
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, so 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 out with tricia s location and
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 when she was 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 even know. i can t imagine sending my daughter off 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 of that charismatic convict he