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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 compliment. and now he s also able to protect me. now, keene had hall s trust and had him talking. one night, in hall s cell, he told keene the truth about what happened to tricia reitler. but what hall told keene was different from what some investigators believed. it was his story, along with some evidence that created a roadmap i wanted to follow to try to figure out what happened to tricia reitler. tricia would have left this supermarket parking lot, walking just a couple of blocks back to campus. ....
falcons, to watch over the dead, and a map marked with dots. 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. ....
Recounts a tough start. i know when i was born, my mother told me that i was blue. that i hadn t got enough oxygen to me or something. identical twin sons growing up hard. in the hall home, there was little money and lots of problems. author hillel levin interviewed larry hall. it was a very cluttered household. they were raised with dysfunction. the neighbors say their mother was domineering. the father drank and sometimes turned violent. he worked at the local cemetery. what was it like growing up next to a cemetery? was it creepy? no, not at all, not for me. at 12 years of age, larry and i started working at the cemetery. as he grew older, larry had problems fitting in at school. he was always the backward twin. ....
Larry hall had confessed to killing jessica roach, tricia reitler and two other women. and then he took it all back, claiming it was just his imagination. 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. ....