he said they re these little falcons, they watch over the dead, jimmy, they do. and they look like? a good size chess piece. jimmy had a strong feeling his wood carved falcons and map were journal keeping by a serial killer. that map had little red dots over it of illinois, indiana, wisconsin. you would look down at this map, you could see all the little spots are burial spots where he s got somebody. all those months of dangerous, painstaking work paid off. jimmy had cracked the case. mission accomplished. 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.
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 away for dealing drugs. jimmy keene. what happens when i have to deal with crazy killers and stuff, what if i get shanked,
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 had told 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 didn t 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
talk to your doctor about chantix. 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.
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. hall s conviction in the jessie roach case. jimmy fibbed his mother lived near wabash and read about jessie s case and other stories involving hall. she gets that newspaper from that hometown where you re from. i said all the newspaper stories say you killed multiple women. that was a big risk though. it all was a big risk. i said larry, i don t care what you re in here for, be honest to me, that s all. tell me what happened. i m still going to be your friend no matter what. i said i had girls do me wrong in my life, i understand how girls can get under your skin and be bothersome to you. jimmy pressed hall about roach. at last, hall began to open up recalling that september day in 1993. he was driving a back country road, seen her walking her bicycle. hall then told jimmy exactly how he abducted and killed jessie.