i had a van. hall said he raped and strangled a girl here, too. and then he identified his victim by pointing to trisha s picture. trisha s disappearance had remained a mystery for 18 months. we were just kind of sitting on the sidelines waiting for information to come in. with little evidence and local police insisting on another suspect, trisha s parents, gary and donna still suffered. with each thing that came in the urgency was great. and the heartache was great, too. anticipation and the hope. hall s confession met the reitler s might at least find their daughter. and that gary miller had found the killer of jessica roach. but the next day, hall changed his story. as i was talking to him he said, i was just telling you about my dreams. that didn t really happen. he said, it was just my dreams.
officers spotted the van and talked to the driver, a man named larry hall. hall said he was 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 trisha 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 cornfield weeks later. but then, like trisha s jessica s case went cold. there s a lot of times you wonder whether you ll ever solve it, but you know you ll keep going and check everything out and recheck everything. for over a year, miller scoured local police reports and
morning. i look at that and i can hear her say hi, mom! tricia was very kind-hearted and very smart. as a child, says father, garry, tricia lit up the room. she would just bound into the room, spread her arms apart and say ta-da! that type of thing. donna and garry brought tricia here to marion, indiana, to attend this small christian college. one spring evening in 1993, tricia left her dorm room for a walk. on march 29th around 8:00 at night, tricia reitler came here to this shopping center. she bought a soda and a magazine and started walking back to campus. but then, she disappeared. phone call came a little bit after midnight and the voice on the other side of the phone said, do you know where your daughter is? 19-year-old tricia lynn reitler was seen at 8:00 on monday night. trisha s disappearance rocked
the community and devastated her parents. whoever is responsible, we will never know. what they have taken away from us. trisha s mother made a desperate appeal to tricia on the jerry springer show. hang in there and know we love you and we re doing everything we can to find you. despite huge media coverage and their pleas for answers, none ever came. it s like she just vanished into thin air. tricia was never found. young college students, they need to be aware. kristen zoeller was a junior at iwu when tricia disappeared. we were advised to stay in our dorms if you were a girl. but a week after trisha s disappearance, they needed to go to the marsh grocery store. you thought you would be safe and you would be fine. exactly. not far at all. i can see the campus.
her say hi, mom! tricia was very kind-hearted and very smart. as a child, says father, garry, tricia lit up the room. she would just bound into the room, spread her arms apart and say ta-da! that type of thing. donna and garry brought tricia here to marion, indiana, to attend this small christian college. one spring evening in 1993, tricia left her dorm room for a walk. on march 29th around 8:00 at night, tricia reitler came here to this shopping center. she bought a soda and a magazine and started walking back to campus. but then, she disappeared. phone call came a little bit after midnight and the voice on the other side of the phone said, do you know where your daughter is? 19-year-old tricia lynn reitler was seen at 8:00 on monday night. trisha s disappearance rocked