of jessica roach. and investigator gary miller had a gut instinct. i really think we re on to something. this guy portrays this weak, timid person, but, you know, i don t think he truly is. miller thought hall was vicious and, as the investigation unfolded, miller also thought he knew how hall abducted jessica roach. when he first seen her, she was riding from toward the house going down this way. hall followed and stopped to talk. jessica got scared and backed away. that s when he opens the door, grabs her and there s a physical confrontation where he overpowers her. put her in his van and left, probably going up this road right past her house. in an interview in the wabash police station, hall surprised investigators by explaining what happened next.
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hall said he d been looking for a friend s address, but the address he gave didn t exist. so officers let hall go. september 20th, 1993, six months after tricia s disappearance, now 15-year-old jessica roach goes missing in georgetown, illinois. investigator gary miller got the call. we all knew that we had something really bad here. we had an abduction. jessica s badly decomposed body was found in an indiana corn field weeks later, but then, like tricia s, jessica s case went cold. there s a lot of times you wonder whether you ll ever solve it, but you know you re going to keep going, check everything out, recheck everything. for over a year, miller scoured local police reports, and then, a break. a vehicle reported in a county nearby.
so our reaction was to make sure he gets the maximum penalty. beaumont got his way. and keene got ten years. it knocked the life out of him and broke his father s heart. any hopes and dreams he had had for me at that point in life were gone. he was crushed. he was very crushed. jimmy keene could not imagine a way out. nor guess that a man he d never met might someday provide him one. november 1994. wabash, indiana. it had been two weeks since larry hall recoiled from a photo of jessica roach. and investigator gary miller had a gut instinct. i really think we re on to something here. this guy portrays this weak, timid person, but, you know, i don t think he truly is.
beaumont was willing to negotiate. initially we tried to what we call flip him to see if he could give us other drug dealers at the time. and i think he refused. so our reaction was to make sure he gets the maximum penalty. beaumont got his way. and keene got ten years. it knocked the life out of him and broke his father s heart. any hopes and dreams he had had for me at that point in life were gone. he was crushed. he was very crushed. jimmy keene could not imagine a way out. nor guess that a man he d never met might someday provide him one. november 1994. wabash, indiana. it had been two weeks since larry hall recoiled from a photo of jessica roach. and investigator gary miller had a gut instinct.