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. 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.
he made me leave the room. he did in fact confess on tape to 15 serial murders. larry later retracted again. and while he can t ever seem to stick to one story, he does sometimes seem to have regrets. i didn t want to keep living my life the way i was living it. i wanted things to be different, you know, but i guess i didn t really do the right things to change the way my life was going. larry hall refused our request for an interview. he has never been charged with crimes against anyone other than jessica roach. but keene s story has caused officials across the country to take another look at hall. in november of 2010 investigators from the police department interviewed mr. hall at a prison in north carolina. in that interview hall admitted murdering laurie de pughs and provided clues to
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. larry hall was recanting everything.
hall said he raped her and led her off through the woods. i laid her up against a tree and put a belt around her neck and she stopped breathing. hall said he strangled jessica from behind so he didn t have to see her face as she died. and that wasn t all. all of the girls looked alike, hall said. i cannot remember all of them. i picked up several girls in other areas, but i can t remember which ones i hurt. several girls in other areas. 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.
openly, detectives approached him asking for help. i went with the indianapolis detectives down to try to get my brother to confess. he made me leave the room. he did in fact confess on tape to 15 serial murders. larry later retracted again. and while he can t ever seem to stick to one story, he does sometimes seem to have regrets. i didn t want to keep living my life the way i was living it. i wanted things to be different, you know, but i guess i didn t really do the right things to change the way my life was going. larry hall refused our request for an interview. he has never been charged with crimes against anyone other than jessica roach. but keene s story has caused officials across the country to take another look at hall. in november of 2010 investigators from the police department interviewed mr. hall at a prison in north carolina. in that interview hall