was right. he tried that hometown newspaper ploy again. i said, you know, the newspapers say you killed this girl from the college over here. i says, what happened there? jimmy couldn t be sure how hall would react. had he been too blunt, too direct? no. it was all clicking. according to jimmy, hall began to open up about tricia and said he drove his van right up to her that day he saw her outside school. he said that he tried to kiss her, and when he did, that she started fighting very violently. he said she was a very strong girl and she fought stronger than anybody had ever fought before. and did he admit it? he said he had killed her and he knew he had done it again, these are his words, that he knew he had done it again, and he said he went way out in the woods and buried her way out in the woods. hall gave a general location for tricia s body, near a river in indiana. but jimmy needed more specific information. luckily, he seemed to stumble into it a few nights later
cell, but by then, the map and falcons, items jimmy believed could lead to tricia, were gone. what were you thinking telling larry hall you re out of here and dressing him down? people wouldn t understand the mounting pressure, that kettle is ready to boil over at any time, you know, and it felt good to unload on the guy. the problem as i see it, you ve unloaded on him, he knows you re against him, but nobody has that map. right. i am disappointed i didn t wait another day or two at least. i should have waited a few more days. i wish i could have done more for them, but i did all i could do. i feel in my being i did all i could do. meantime, the people that would benefit the most from a successful mission, tricia s parents, only learned about the
haymaker swing at me and i come up with an uppercut, nailed him. kicked him through three rows of chairs, jumped on him, and i beat him to a pulp. hall had a ringside view of saturday night s main event. afterward he staunchly defended his friend as a retaliator, not an instigator, in the brawl. you are larry hall s new hero? i became his new best friend and hero too. jimmy could sense his heroics brought him closer to hall. and now he was ready to make a bold move. in the prison library, jimmy had figured out a strategy to draw hall out on tricia reitler. i noticed he was reading his hometown newspaper. and that was really important eventually for me to start cracking 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 that his mother
telling a much different story. he denied confessing to any killing, including jessie s and tricia s. what s more, he claimed it was all a misunderstanding about disturbing dreams he had. he takes us out to a location where in my dreams i strangled here and left her lay here. we searched the woods and searched the area and never really found anything. the indiana cops familiar with hall were not at all surprised by his actions. some of them like jay kay thought hall might be a wannabe, a pretender who gets his kicks from confessing to crimes he didn t commit. is it possible he s simply obsessed with these cases but not involved? there s no doubt in my mind he does follow these cases, that he does read and is attracted to cases all over the country, you know, so the question does come is he a wannabe? deputy sheriff miller and prosecutor beaumont, however, felt certain they had a real
tricia had walked to an off-campus supermarket and never returned to her dorm.arstill wa. and we have no answers, and somebody out there, that s what eats at me, somebody out there has that answer for us. tricia reitler wasn t even prosecutor beaumont s case, but he was deeply moved by her parents. that was always a horrible crime to me. i knew about the facts of the case, i knew about the family. i never met them, but i read all the newspaper articles and the accounts of them, you know, asking for help. beaumont felt certain that suspected serial killer larry hall was responsible. not only did hall live 25 minutes from indiana wesleyan, he had been identified chasing two co-eds there just a week after tricia went missing. so in the summer of 1995, a month after convicting hall for jessie roach s murder, beaumont was leading a search for tricia. it was in those same indiana backwoods where hall had told indiana authorities he dreamt he