but you know you re going the keep going and check everything out, you re going to recheck everything. for over a year, miller scoured local police reports. and then a break. a vehicle reported in a county nearby. the owner, larry hall. he had been involved in stopping some girls. those girls were scared. they ran from him. in the last six months, hall s van was spotted by more than 11 girls in five different towns close by, including those where jessica lived and where her body was found. now, miller contacted the police in hall s hometown to arrange for an interview. he initially said, no, you know, he hadn t been over here. miller had to coax hall to admit being near jessica s house. i said, well, would you remember if, you know, you stopped and offered girls a ride or asked them to get in your van? he said, well, he stops and talks to everybody. after a few questions, miller took a gamble and put a photo of jessica down in front of hall. he immediately flinched.
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. 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
hall said he had been looking for a friend s address but the address he gave didn t exist. officers let paul go. september 20th, 1993, six months after tricia s disappearance, now 15-year-old jessica roach goes missing in georgetown, illinois. investigator gary miller got the call. we all knew we had something really bad here. we had an abduction. jessica s badly decomposed body was found in an indiana corn field weeks later. then, like tricia s, jessica s case went cold. there s a lot of times you wonder if you ll solve it. but you know you re going the keep going and check everything out, you re going to recheck everything. for over a year, miller scoured local police reports. and then a break. a vehicle reported in a county
he was crushed. he was very crushed. jimmy keene could not imagine a way out. nor guess that a man he d never met might someday provide him one. november, 1994. wabash, indiana. it had been two weeks since larry hall recoiled from a photo of jessica roach. and investigator gary miller had a gut instinct. i really think we re on to something here. this guy portrays this weak, timid person, but, you know, i don t think he truly is. miller thought hall was vicious and as the investigation unfolded, miller also thought he knew how hall abducted jessica roach. when he first seen her, she was riding from, toward the house, going down this way. hall followed and stopped to
for over a year, miller scoured local police reports. and then a break. a vehicle reported in a county nearby. the owner, larry hall. he had been involved in stopping some girls. those girls were scared. they ran from him. in the last six months, hall s van was spotted by more than 11 girls in five different towns close by, including those where jessica lived and where her body was found. now, miller contacted the police in hall s hometown to arrange for an interview. he initially said, no, you know, he hadn t been over here. miller had to coax hall to admit being near jessica s house. i said, well, would you remember if, you know, you stopped and offered girls a ride or asked them to get in your van? he said, well, he stops and talks to everybody. after a few questions, miller