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 side burns, 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 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. he came along to the point he said well, i go to so many re-enactments, i could have been there and don t remember because
second. he is probably thinking at this point you re about to charge him with something else. yeah, because you know, i had be rough on him in the initial prosecution. jimmy was in the dark. he had no idea the crazy scheme beaumont had in mind. he says jimmy, listen, he says this is something that we have another person on, he has killed many, many young women, and i personally think you re the one that can help us with this. this turned out to be an investigation to try and catch a suspected serial killer. beaumont, an outside the box thinker, believed this convict, jimmy keene, was the one who could somehow crack the case, taking on a unique and deadly mission. i realized how serious it was and also realized the danger of it. what he couldn t know was how such a dangerous mission would change his world and the person he was forever. if this all seems fodder for a hollywood movie, brad pitt would agree. the mega star who was benjamin button, then money balls billy
a safety precaution the roaches insisted she follow 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 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 drugs. jimmy keene. what happens when i have to deal with crazy killers and stuff, what if i get shanked,
sentence. i knew he didn t expect ten years in that case. your father was in the courtroom. right. i knew i let him down, probably one of the biggest ways you could let somebody down. keene s future was bleak. he faced ten years away from his glamorous life, the fast women, 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 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 both hardcore killers and the criminally insane. these people all have life sentences, they re all in there and they re crazy lunes and have nothing perfect to do than hurt you or kill you just for fun. if he accepted beaumont s
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 that hometown where you re from. i said all the newspaper stories say you killed multiple women. that was a big risk though. it all was a big risk. i said larry, i don t care what you re in here for, be honest to me, that s all. tell me what happened. i m still going to be your friend no matter what. i said i had girls do me wrong in my life, i understand how girls can get under your skin and be bothersome to you. jimmy pressed hall about roach. at last, hall began to open up recalling that september day in 1993. he was driving a back country road, seen her walking her bicycle. hall then told jimmy exactly how he abducted and killed jessie.