he made me leave the room. he did, in fact, confess on tape to 15 serial murders. larry later retracted again. and while he can t ever seem to stick to one story, he does, sometimes, seem to have regrets. i didn t want to keep living my life the way i was living it. i wanted things to be different, you know, but i guess i didn t really do the right things and change the way my life was going. larry hall refused our request for an interview. he has never been charged with crimes against anyone other than jessica roach. but keene s story has caused officials across the country to take another look at hall. in november of 2010, investigators from the town of the nashville police department interviewed mr. hall at a federal prison in north carolina. in that interview, hall admitted murdering lori depeaze and provided clues of where to find her body.
i made it a point for us to bump shoulders together, and as we gently bumped shoulders i said, excuse me, i said, i m new here, you wouldn t happen to know where the library is, would you? hall offered to show keene the way. and i reached over and slapped him on the shoulder and i said, thanks a lot, i appreciate that from a cool guy like you. over the next week, keene watched hall s every move from his cell across the hall. i walked up to him and i says, hey, this is where i m at, are you in this area here? and he says, yeah, i m right there. and his eyes bug out of his head. i said, that s great. you re right by me. and i told him i m glad you re by me and all this and that, and that is when he basically offered, if i ever want to have breakfast with him, and his friends. keene was making progress, slowly gaining hall s trust. but life at springfield was complicated. and dangerous.
so keene figured out a way to use violence to his advantage. it was a saturday night and hall was in the tv room, mesmerized by an episode of america s most wanted about serial killers. suddenly another inmate approached the tv. you could tell he d been in there for a long time and he was a real big buffed guy. he walked up, looked at everybody and turned the channel. and i found it very interesting. larry looked at me and very quietly mumbled under his breath, hey, i was watching that show. keene leaped into action and knocked the guy out. i nailed him with an upper cut and kicked him through three rows of chairs. he was beat up real bad and had to go to the hospital and they took me and threw me in the hole. it was worth it. and it was a breakthrough with hall. he not only now looked at me as a guy that he could look at and say, wow, he thinks i m cool, coming from him, that s a
i did confess to certain policemen that i had dreams that i did things. but investigator gary miller had other evidence, like the witness who drove by this cornfield the night of jessica s murder. that person testified he was absolutely sure that when he went by here that night, there was a van and a guy coming from the corn field to get in his van. a search of hall s house and van revealed he had been casing out small college towns and keeping suspicious notes. seen joggers and bikers. many alone. check colleges, parks. seen some prospects. hall also made lists for the hardware store. buy two more plastic tarps. cover all floor and sides of van. and hall wrote himself troubling instructions.
it was the information keene thought would surely lead to the exact location of tricia s body. and that moment, did you think, this is my ticket to freedom? i did. because i thought this is it. i ve got solid confessions out of him. we know specific details. we know how he s done it now. keene believed he had his answer. that he d soon be free. that he was done forever with larry hall. so that night, at lockdown, keene decided to tell hall what he really thought. i told him he was a [bleep]ing sicko. i told him that he was insane. i told him you are one of the most despicable forms of human life on this planet. all of the sudden, he was terrified of me and he says, beaumont sent you, didn t he? beaumont sent you, didn t he? keene had blown his cover. and his outburst landed him in solitary confinement. it took some time before we found out that they put jimmy in