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hall said he had been looking for a friend s address but the address he gave didn t exist. officers let paul 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 we had something really bad here. we had an abduction. jessica s badly decomposed body was found in an indiana corn field weeks later. then, like tricia s, jessica s case went cold. there s a lot of times you wonder if you ll solve it. but you know you re going the keep going and check everything out, you re going to recheck everything. for over a year, miller scoured local police reports. and then a break. a vehicle reported in a county
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.
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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. no body contact. buy condoms. buy two more leather belts. find one now! among his things, investigators found newspaper clippings about roach and reitler, possessions from other missing girls, and pornographic pictures hall had altered. in those pictures, he had drawn what looked like a rope or belt around the neck of one of of the left side of the mouth, he had drawn blood. hall insisted it was all just staged, to make a play for attention. to feel important to police. i put a bunch of stuff in that van that i drove around with because i knew they d eventually search my van and find them.