that s why they called me the assassin. you were the assassin. yes. my nickname was the assassin. and the reason why name was the assassin is because i put somebody out at every game i ve ever played. keen wasn t just the hometown hero. he was his father s namesake. my dad generally sat up here in the corner over here. if i made a spectacular play, he would always give me the you did good son. how much was he sitting in the stands? every game of my life. he never, ever missed a game or my practices. does that mean a lot to you? absolutely. my dad, he was my backbone. keen was as popular as he was athletic. you re a lend. yeah, i mean, there s no doubt. they had posters of me all over town. i mean, everybody knew who i was with my sports ability. so, yeah, i was the most popular guy around. there s no question. i was voted most popular guy in school. jimmy seemed to have everything.
no doubt. they had posters of me all over town. everybody knew who i was with my sports ability. so, yeah, i was the most popular guy around. no question, i was voted most popular guy in school. jimmy seemed to have everything. except enough money to keep up with the rich kids at school. and he only saw one way to get it. he started selling drugs at school. and quickly learned, he was good at it. you re making decent money you don t think, is this a wrong thing that you re doing. so i kept growing into it and growing into it and by the time i was 20 years old i was sitting on top of an empire. by keen s own account, he was pulling in around $1 million a year! he was addicted. not to the drugs, but the money. it s hard to walk away from that kind of money, especially a 20 year old. so, he didn t. and that single decision would
we ended up going to crack houses because somebody had a lead. if you see something on the side of the road, a garbage bag, whatever, it s like, could that be her? it was just a horrendous crime to lose your daughter, never find out what the heck happened to her. larry beaumont kept looking, too. i actually made arrangements on a couple occasions to go out and look for the body. beaumont called in specialized military and law enforcement units to search. so rather than give up, it occurred to me that obviously larry hall knew. beaumont needed answers and turned to an unlikely source to get them. he needed someone to befriend larry hall. someone charismatic. someone on the inside. larry beaumont needed jimmy keen. beaumont had sent both keen and hall to prison. now he hashed a risky plan that
you re making decent money, you don t think is this a wrong thing that you re doing? so i kept growing into it and growing into it and by the time i was 20 years old, i mean, i was sitting on top of an empire. by keen s own account, he was pulling in around $1 million a year. he was addicted. not to the drugs, but the money. it s hard to walk away from that kind of money, especially a 20-year-old. so he didn t. and that single decision would change the rest of jimmy keen s life. and bring him face to face with an alleged serial killer. heartb? yeah. try new alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i m feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. enjoy the relief!
it was closure for keene, but not for the families of the alleged victims of larry hall. for years there was no progress and no relief for people like donna and gary reitler. as a parent there s the part that you ve let her down and that you want to find her and you want to bring her home and you can t. i mean, we ve done pretty much everything physically that we can to find her. and there s somebody out there that holds that one answer for us. beaumont too felt that he d done all he could and that the pursuit of larry hall was over. there was going to be no further prosecution from the federal perspective. he s already serving life in prison. he was done. once again, larry hall had slipped off the radar, and it easily could have remained that way. except for jimmy keen. first keene s story of strange redemption was featured in a