there were more victims than just jessica roach. hall said he d also been near the campus of indiana wesleyan university, where tricia reitler had disappeared. i was over there because i needed to be with somebody. it was a small shopping center, i had a van. hall said he raped and strangled a girl here, too. then he identified his victim by pointing to tricia s picture. tricia s disappearance had remained a mystery for 18 months. we were just kind of sitting on the sidelines waiting for information to come in. with little evidence, and local police insisting on another suspect, tricia s parents, gary and donna, still suffered. i know with each thing that came in, the urgency was great. and the heartache was great, too. and anticipation and the hope.
convicted of kidnapping jessica roach. in the federal system, if you re guilty of a kidnapping, if that kidnapping resulted in a death, them under the sentencing guidelines, it s mandatory life term. the jessica roach case was over, but the disappearance of tricia reitler remained unsolved and her parents, gary and donna, would not stop looking. we walked the sides of the roads. we walked the riverbeds. we looked under the culverts. we ended up going to crack houses because somebody had a lead. if you see something on the side of the road, a garbage bag, whatever, it s like, could that be her? it was just a horrendous crime to lose your daughter, never find out what the heck happened to her. larry beaumont kept looking, too. i actually made arrangements on a couple occasions to go out and look for the body. beaumont called in specialized military and law enforcement units to search. but we weren t able to find them. so rather than to give up, it occurred to me that ob
hall insisted it was all just staged to make a play for attention. to feel important to police. i put a bunch of stuff in the van that i drove around with because i knew that eventually they d search my van and find them. during larry s trial, his twin brother, gary, tried to provide him an alibi. still, the federal prosecutor larry beaumont got larry haul convicted of kidnapping jessica roach. in the federal system, if you re guilty of a kidnapping, if that kidnapping resulted in a death, them under the sentencing guidelines, it s mandatory life term. the jessica roach case was over, but the disappearance of tricia reitler remained unsolved and her parents, gary and donna, would not stop looking. we walked the sides of the roads. we walked the riverbeds. we looked under the culverts. we ended up going to crack houses because somebody had a lead. if you see something on the side of the road, a garbage bag,
to confess and let us know where she s buried. donna reitler is not as sure. yeah, he confessed. he recanted. he confessed. he recanted. without a body it s just another possibility. more than anything else they just want their daughter back. to have a place to lay her to rest, just to be able to sit and just talk to her. as for jimmy keene, his truth is stranger than fiction. he s gone from football standout to drug dealer to undercover operative. and now to screen star. with his story in development as a hollywood film. still, says keene, he thinks of the victims families and hopes they ll find their answers. it s all they can do, is keep hoping. there was a glimmer of hope when jimmy keene was involved here. maybe something else will still
a girl here, too. then he identified his victim by pointing to tricia s picture. tricia s disappearance had remained a mystery for 18 months. we were just kind of sitting on the sidelines waiting for information to come in. with little evidence, and local police insisting on another suspect, tricia s parents, gary and donna, still suffered. i know with each thing that came in, the urgency was great. and the heartache was great, too. and anticipation and the hope. hall s confession meant the reitlers might at last find their daughter and gary miller had found the killer of jessica roach. but the next day, hall changed his story. as i was talking to him, he said, i was just telling you about my dreams, that didn t really happen. he said, it was just my dreams. i said, larry, that s not what you said. you said this happened and you didn t like talking about it because you didn t like the things you d done but you never mentioned it being a dream. but he stuck to his new story.