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.
tricia walked to an off 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
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 outside the box scheme to get hall, which would risk the life of that charismatic convict he had just put
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 in a playboy magazine article. the reitlers are thankful for jimmy s courage and corroborating details he said he got from hall, but they re furious he blew his cover before finding their daughter. why would you have been so
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 woodshop, a restricted area. there s nobody at the door,