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. , thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. kaboom. well, i just have a few other questions. chuck, the only other question you need to ask is, what else can you do for me? i ll just take a water. get your credit swagger on.
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.
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 this 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 hardware store. buy two more plastic tarps. cover all floor and sides of van and hall wrote himself troubling instructions. no body contact. buy condoms. buy two more leather belts.
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 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
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. it was a small shopping center, i had a van. hall said he raped and strangled