and he goes, they do. what if someone asked you to risk your life? what if i shape get changed? what if i get killed? to go undercover. and one of the country s most dangerous presents. once they stepped out the door, i was on my own. they helped him catch a killer. she had such a zest for life. young girls were being murdered. i can t imagine sending my daughter off to school, and never seeing her again. and investigators needed health to get a confession. if anyone could pull it off, he would be the problem to pull it off. but this was different, he was always be a convicted felon. if it worked, he could win his freedom, if it did, it he could lose his life. they had your back? they had my back. that s what you thought? that s what i thought. hello. and welcome to dateline. jimmy kaine was a smooth talking convict serving a ten year sentence. when he was offered a deal. if he helped prosecutors pry a confession from a suspected serial k
would know, that jessie was not riding her bike but walking it, a safety precaution the roaches insisted she follow when she was on their narrow road. that was never in the press, that she was walking her bike that day. right. when you heard that, did that give more credence to the story? oh, yeah, that just sealed it for me. i knew. i knew that he was the one. a jury unanimously agreed. it took just three hours to convict larry hall. but prosecutor beaumont believed this was just the tip of the iceberg. he felt certain hall was a serial killer, and now he had to find a way to prove it. so he began investigating tricia reitler s abduction, a case that wasn t his for a family he didn t even know. i can t imagine sending my daughter to school and never seeing her again. and he came up with an outside the box scheme to get hall, which would risk the life of that charismatic convict he had just put away for dealing
picture. convinced larry hall was hiding something, miller became obsessed with making a case against him. days later, back in illinois, miller turned up a huge lead. he found witnesses who vividly remember hall from a revolutionary war re-enactment in the georgetown area the very weekend before jessie was abducted. to them, hall stood out for his bushy muttonchops sideburns, but also for playing a soldier who was fighting the wrong war. he was wearing a civil war uniform, and he had a civil war hat. at a revolutionary war re-enactment. exactly. armed with this new information, deputy sheriff miller returned to wabash for a second crack at hall. this time, he pressed his suspect harder, stressing that hall s fellow re-enactors had seen him near georgetown.
haymaker swing at me and i come up with an uppercut, nailed him. kicked him through three rows of chairs, jumped on him, and i beat him to a pulp. hall had a ringside view of saturday night s main event. afterward he staunchly defended his friend as a retaliator, not an instigator, in the brawl. you are larry hall s new hero? i became his new best friend and hero too. jimmy could sense his heroics brought him closer to hall. and now he was ready to make a bold move. in the prison library, jimmy had figured out a strategy to draw hall out on tricia reitler. i noticed he was reading his hometown newspaper. and that was really important eventually for me to start cracking into his psyche. even though the goal was tricia s body, jimmy decided to ask first about something already public knowledge. hall s conviction in the jessie roach case. jimmy fibbed that his mother
tricia had walked to an off-campus supermarket and never returned to her dorm.arstill wa. and we have no answers, and somebody out there, that s what eats at me, somebody out there has that answer for us. tricia reitler wasn t even prosecutor beaumont s case, but he was deeply moved by her parents. that was always a horrible crime to me. i knew about the facts of the case, i knew about the family. i never met them, but i read all the newspaper articles and the accounts of them, you know, asking for help. beaumont felt certain that suspected serial killer larry hall was responsible. not only did hall live 25 minutes from indiana wesleyan, he had been identified chasing two co-eds there just a week after tricia went missing. so in the summer of 1995, a month after convicting hall for jessie roach s murder, beaumont was leading a search for tricia. it was in those same indiana backwoods where hall had told indiana authorities he dreamt he