seen him near georgetown. he came along to the point where he said well, i go to so many re-enactments, i could have been there and don t remember because i go to a lot of them. he was giving more ground? right, yeah. miller sees the opening and kept at it. finally, he said hall came clean and confessed that he abducted, sexually violated, and strangled jessie roach to death. how much detail did he give you about the killing of jessica roach? very good detail, what he actually did and what took place. not only that, miller says larry hall confessed to other killings, including a co-ed from indiana wesleyan university in nearby marion, indiana. he did say he was there. deputy miller didn t know much about tricia, he called on the local indiana police handling that case. but when marion detective jay kay and other indiana cops arrived, hall was suddenly
every day you get up, are you thinking about this case? oh, every day. what have i missed? exactly. i know this case really shook him from the beginning. he would check all leads that would involve all girls and kind of run them down. then in late 1994, miller s persistence finally paid off. a man in a van had been reported chasing two teenager girls in jessie s hometown of georgetown. miller traced that to larry hall from wabash, indiana, a three hour drive from georgetown. is your heartbeat starting to pick up a little bit? thinking yeah, this has to be checked out. he learned hall was a gung-ho union re-enactor that liked to fight fantasy battles. he immediately drove to wabash to interview hall who wasn t saying much. miller showed him a photo of jessie roach. when i put the picture down, he flinched, raised his arm up,
confession, hall gave him a detail that only the killer 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 off 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
larry beaumont. we scooped him up in an operation that i ran, we called it operation snow ploy. in court, beaumont showed keene no mercy. he was coming at you on all fours? m oh, god, he was a bulldog. jimmy was convicted and od slapped with a ten-year sentence. it was a pretty stiff sentence. i knew he didn t expect ten years in that case. your father was in the a e courtroom. right. i knew i let him down, probably one of the biggest ways you could let somebody down. he keene s future was bleak. he faced ten years away from his glamorous life, the fancy cars, the big bucks. in 1998, just when all hope seemed lost, his old nemesis, beaumont, came to him with an offer of freedom, attached to that accordion file he slid across the table. in return, keene would have to t agree to risk everything and become an undercover informant in one of the roughest prisons in the country, the maximum security lockup in springfield, missouri. it was a psychiatric prison with
that event. after ward, he staunchedly defended him as retaliator, not instigator. i became his new best friend and hero. jimmy could sense his heroics brought him closer to hall. he was ready to make a bold move. in the prison library, jimmy 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 crack 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 his mother lived near wabash and read about jessie s case and other stories involving hall. she gets that newspaper from