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 talk. jessica got scared and backed away. that s when he opens the door, grabs her. there s a physical confrontation where he overpowers her. put her in his van. and left. probably going up this road right past her house. in an interview in the wabash police station, hall surprised investigators by explaining what happened next. i tied her up, but i can t remember with what. i took her pants off. hall said he raped her and led her off through the woods. i laid her up against a tree and
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 federal prison in north carolina. in that interview hall admitted murdering laurie depies, and provided clues to finding her body.
killing jessica roach, tricia reitler and two other women. and then he took it all back. claiming it was just his imagination. i did confess to certain policemen that i had dreams, that i did things. but investigator gary miller had other evidence. like the witness who drove by this cornfield the night of jessica s murder. that person testified he was absolutely sure that when he went by here on that night, there was a van, there was a guy coming from the cornfield to get in his van. and a search of hull s house and van revealed he d been casing out small college towns and keeping suspicious notes. seen joggers and bikers, many alone. check colleges, parks. seen some prospects. hall also made lists for the
remember with what. i took her pants off. 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. there was a small shopping center.
named larry hall. hall said he d been looking for a friend s address, but the address he gave didn t exist. so officers let hall 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 that we had something really bad here. we had an abduction. jessica s badly decomposed body was found in an indiana corn field weeks later, but then, like tricia s, jessica s case went cold. there s a lot of times you wonder whether you ll ever solve it, but you know you re going to keep going, check everything out, recheck everything. for over a year, miller scoured local police reports, and then, a break.