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. during larry s trial, his twin brother, gary, tried to provide him an alibi. still, federal prosecutor larry beaumont, got hall convicted of kidnapping jessica roach. in the federal system, if you re guilty of a kidnapping and that kidnapping resulted in a death, then under the sentencing guidelines, it s a mandatory life term. the jessica roach case was over. but the disappearance of trisha reitler remained unsolved. and her parents, garry reitler and donna, could not stop looking. we walked the sides of the roads. the riverbeds. we looked under the culverts. you know?
police station, hall surprised investigators by explaining what happened next. i tied her up but i can t remember with what. i took her pants off. hall said he raped her and led her off through the woods. i laid her up against a tree and put a belt around her neck and she stopped breathing. hall said he strangled jessica from behind so he didn t have to see her face as she died. and that wasn t all. all of the girls looked alike, hall said. i cannot remember all of them. i picked up several girls in other areas but i can t remember which ones i hurt. several girls in other areas. there were more victims than just jessica roach. hall said he d also been near the campus of indiana wesleyan university where trisha reitler
indianapolis, indiana. all of these cases went unsolved. officials believed only one man knew what happened. we knew he was responsible for several deaths. and to get answers, it would take a risky, unusual plan. send a convicted drug dealer undercover into a dangerous prison to befriend an alleged serial killer. i m not a serial killer hunter, i said, so how am i going to do this? at stake? answers. wondering where she is and what happened. the grieving families. you want to find her, bring her home and you can t. and one man s freedom. they don t just give out candy and say you re free to go. i went through hell and back. early each day, donna reitler greets her daughter trisha.
had disappeared. i was over there because i needed to be with somebody. it was a small shopping center. 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 mist 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
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