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Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have Exema. So I get how it can steal your time. But why let Exema take over when you can talk to your doctor about Epglyce? Epglyce, lubricism ab LBKZ, a 250-mg per 2-mg leador injection, is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe Exema. Also called a topic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin, or topicals, or who cannot use topical therapies. Epglyce can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you are allergic to Epglyce. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. Eye problems can occur. Tell your doctor if you have newer, worsening eye problems, you should not receive a live vaccine when treated with Epglyce. Before starting Epglyce, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Paid partnership with Lili. Respect your time. Ask your doctor about Epglyce and visit Epglyce.com, or call 1-800-LiliRX or 1-800-545-5979.

Earn your Farm D in as little as 33 months with West Coast University's hybrid program no bachelor's degree required. Eligible transfer credits may be accepted. West Coast University, as real as it gets, visit westcoastuniversity.edu. WCU cannot guarantee employment. Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have Exema. So I get how it can still your time. But why let Exema take over when you can talk to your doctor about Epglyce? Epglyce, lubricism app LBKZ, a 250-milligram per 2-milliliter injection, is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms, with moderate to severe Exema. Also called a topic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin, or topicals, or who cannot use topical therapies. Epglyce can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you are allergic to Epglyce. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. I-problems can occur. Tell your doctor if you have newer, worsening eye problems. You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with

Epglyce. Before starting Epglyce, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Paid partnership with Lili. Respect your time. Ask your doctor about Epglyce and visit Epglyce.com, or call 1-800-LiliRx or 1-800-545-5979. Here in the Midwest, several young girls went missing. Some were found murdered. Others were never found at all. Lori DePee's 20 in Appleton, Wisconsin. Rainer Rice's 16 from LaPort, Indiana. Wendy Felton, 16 from Marion, Indiana. Michelle Dewey, 20 in 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. Sinda 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, wondering what happened. He's for grieving families. You want a finder, and you want to bring her home, and you can't. And one man's freedom. You don't just turn around and give out candy and say, you're free to go. I went through hell and back. Early each day, Donna Wrightler greets her daughter, Trisha. I say hello to this picture every morning. I say good morning. Every morning. I look at that, and I can hear her say, hi, mom.

Trisha was very kind, hard, and very smart. As a child says, father, Gary, Trisha lit up the room. Few had sometimes just bound into the room, spread her arms apart, say, ta-da, you know, that type of thing. Donna and Gary brought Trisha here to Marion, Indiana, to attend this small Christian college. One spring evening in 1993, Trisha left her dorm room for a walk. On March 29th, around eight o'clock at night, Trisha Wrightler came here to this shopping center. She bought a soda in a magazine and started walking back to campus. But then she disappeared. Phone call came a little bit after midnight, and the boy saw the other side of the phone said, do you know where your daughter is? 19-year-old Trisha Lynn Wrightler was last seen about eight o'clock Monday night. She had just stopped. Trisha's disappearance rocked the community and devastated her parents.

It was ever-responsible, never-know. What they're taking away from us. Trisha's mother made a desperate appeal to Trisha on the Jerry Springer show. Hang in there and know that we love you, and we're doing everything we can to find you. Despite huge media coverage and their pleas for answers, none ever came. It's like she just vanished in the thin air. Trisha was never found. The young college students they need to be aware. Kristen Zeller was a junior at IWU when Trisha disappeared. We were advised to stay in our dorms if you were a girl. But a week after Trisha's disappearance, Kristen and her roommate Heather needed to go to Marsh Groschri's store. They said you'd be safe. We said it'd be fine. It's a couple of lots of ways. Exactly. It's not far at all. I can see the campus from Marsh, so you know what's gonna happen. He was getting dark by the time they left the shopping center, walking the same route Trisha would likely have taken.

We were maybe halfway up the road when Heather turned to me and said, did you? Did you happen to notice that brown man? I said no. Then the van passed again slowly. We still weren't alarmed. He came by again. A third time. Yep. Really slow this time. Looking at us, the hair on the back of our neck started to stand up. The van pulled right up beside them. How close, show me. He was, I mean his wheels were right on the side of the curb. And this was me. This was Heather. And he leaned over, started to say something in that point. We're both like, run. Just run. The girls called security describing a two-tone van driven by a man with mutton chop sideburns. Officers spotted the van and questioned the driver. A man named Larry Hall. Hall said he'd been 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 that you're going to keep going. You're going to 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 nearby. The owner, Larry Hall. He had been involved in stopping some girls. Those girls were scared.

They ran from him. In the last six months, Hall's van was spotted by more than 11 girls in five different towns close by. Including those where Jessica lived and where her body was found. Now Miller contacted the police in Hall's hometown to arrange for an interview. He initially said, no, you know, he hadn't been over here. Miller had to coax Hall to admit being near Jessica's house. I said, well, would you remember if you stopped and offered girls a ride or asked him to get in your van? He's like, he stops and talks to everybody. After a few questions, Miller took a gamble and put a photo of Jessica down in front of Hall. He immediately flinched. He turned to his right and put his hand up over his face like he didn't want to see the picture. Tell me he didn't think he'd ever seen that girl. Later, a heartbreaking mystery.

There's so little that we can do to find her. I just want to bring her home. And the dangerous plan to solve it. Larry Hall and his brother Gary had always been a little different. Look at you two little boys. Well, which one are you and which one's Larry? This would be me. Gary and Larry. In a rare recorded interview obtained by CNN, Larry Hall recounts a tough start. I know when I was born, my mother told me that I was blue, that I had 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 that raised with dysfunction. Neighbors say their mother was domineering. Their father drank and sometimes turned violent. He worked at the local cemetery. Who was it like growing up next to a cemetery? Was it creepy? No, not at all. Not for me. You know, 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. I was the more dominant outgoing twin. He hung out with what my wife and I and a lot of fellow classmates called the misfits or the stinky crowd. Still, the boys were best friends.

And as young men, Gary and Larry developed an unusual new hobby as civil war reenactors. I met a lot of new friends during that time period. And I was able to travel around and meet them at the battlefields, you know, on tours. And stuff. There was a lot of fun. Larry was hooked, even growing mutton chops from his hairline to his jowl. Though the reenactments helped Larry make friends, he still struggled with women. What was Larry like around young women growing up? Very awkward, quiet, backward. Did he ever talk to you about these urges? He reportedly says he had urges about women. Oh my gosh, it was absolutely, it was out of bounds. I had no idea. Earn your FarmD in as littlest 33 months with West Coast University's hybrid program,

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The Friday night games were the biggest rush I've ever had in my life. A gifted athlete, he letered in two sports. Studied martial arts and inspired fear in everyone he faced. Do you like having people terrified of you just a little bit? Well, and that kind of sports, sure. Yeah, that's why they called me the assassin. You were the assassin. Yes, my nickname was the assassin. And the reason my name was the assassin is because I put somebody out of every game I've ever played. Keane wasn't just the hometown hero. He was his father's namesake. My dad generally set up here in the corner over here. If I made a spectacular play, he would always give me the, you did good son, you know. How often was he sitting in the stands? Every single game in my life. Never ever missed a game. He never even missed my practices. That mean a lot to you? Absolutely. My dad was, uh, he was my backbone. Keane was as popular as he was athletic.

You're a legend. Yeah, I mean, there was no doubt. I mean, they had posters up me all over town. I mean, everybody knew who I was with my sports ability. So yeah, I was the most popular guy around. There was no question. I was voted most popular guy in school. Jimmy seemed to have everything, except enough money to keep up with the rich kids at school. And he only saw one way to get it. He started selling drugs and quickly learned. He was good at it. You're making decent money. You don't think is this a wrong thing that you're doing. So I kept growing into it and growing into it. By the time I was 20 years old, I mean, I was sitting on top of a empire. By Keane's own account, he was pulling in around a million dollars a year. He was addicted, not to the drugs, but the money. It's hard to walk away from that kind of money, especially this 20 year old. So he didn't.

And that single decision would change the rest of Jimmy Keane's life and bring him face to face with an alleged serial killer. He likes to play extra HP. Extra HP. Just a few days. By the early 90s, Jimmy Keane was on top of the world. His booming business afforded him a lavish lifestyle, with large homes, souped up corvettes, and an endless supply of women. I would have 30 or 40 cake parties with volleyball nets, live bands. we'd have literally a thousand people or more sometimes.

I mean, these were gigantic huge parties. You were the guy women wanted to be with, and guys wanted to be best friends with. Something like that. Mm. Back then, he owned this 6,000 square foot home. Right behind that is a golf course. He says he didn't stash the drugs here. This is a walking closet. But there was always a place to hide his fortunes. This was a hidden trap door that you could open. And when you would open it, you have another hidden closet back in here. You can see my old safest still here. And this was pretty much just my fortenax room. For 15 years, Keen's empire remained hidden and growing. But as he lived the high life, his father fell in hard times, nearing the brink of financial ruin. My dad to me was Superman. And to see him in such a hurt way really killed me.

So Jimmy used his drug fortune to bail his father out. Then continued to support him. Even though it was coming from something wrong, I felt I did something very right to make his world right. But the money never seemed to be enough. And Keen couldn't stop watching his back. By the fall of 1996, the pressure of life and the fast lane was catching up. I had woke up in the middle of the night, and I was laying there wide awake. I said, you know, I am tired of running like this. And so I really just want this all to end. And it was all about to end, but not the way Keen had planned. Just two weeks later, I heard the front door rattling. I thought it was just the wind. It was in November. And next day, you know, boom. Old door just blew off the hinges. And then they came flying in in a straight file line with their guns drawn and their black uniforms. Move, blow, blow your head off. We'll do this. Just move one time. For Jimmy Keen, it was over.

Everything stops and goes in slow motion. It don't even feel like it's real. Keen was ultimately dragged to jail. He pleaded guilty, hoping to minimize his sentence. And at first, federal prosecutor Larry Beaumont was willing to negotiate. Initially, we tried to what we call flip him to see if he would give us other drug dealers at the time. And I think he refused. So our reaction was to make sure he gets to maximum penalty. Beaumont got his way. And Keen got 10 years. It knocked the life out of him and broke his father's heart. And he hopes and dreams he had had for me at that point in life. War gone. He was crushed. He was very crushed. Jimmy Keen could not imagine a way out. Nor guess that a man he'd never met might someday provide him one.

November, 1994, Wabash, Indiana. It had been two weeks since Larry Hall recoiled from a photo of Jessica Roach. An investigator, Gary Miller, had a gut instinct. I really think we're on to something here. This guy, we're traitors this week, timid person. But I don't think he truly is. Miller thought Hall was vicious. And as the investigation unfolded, Miller also thought he knew how Hall abducted Jessica Roach. When he first seen her, she was riding from toward the house going down this way. Hall followed and stopped to talk. Jessica got scared and backed away. That's when he opens the door grabs her. There's a physical confrontation where he overpowers her, put her in his van and left, probably going up this road right past her house.

In an interview in the Wabash 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 let 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 Wesley in University, or Trisha Wrightler, had disappeared.

I was over there because I needed to be with somebody. There was a small shopping center. I had a van. Hall said he raped and strangled a girl here, too. 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 sit on the sidelines waiting for information to come in. With little evidence in local police insisting on another suspect, Trisha's parents, Gary and Donna, still suffered. I know with each thing that came in, the urgency was great. And the heartache was great, too, and the anticipation and the hope. Hall's confession meant the Wrightlers might last find their daughter. And 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, why I was just telling you about my dreams?

Like that didn't really happen. He said it was just my dreams. And I said, well, Larry, that's not what you said. You said this had happened. You didn't like talking about it because you didn't like the things that you'd done, but you never mentioned it being a dream. But he stuck to his new story. Larry Hall was recanting everything. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. Larry Hall had confessed to killing Jessica Roach, Trisha Wrightler, and two other women. And then he took it all back, claiming it was just his imagination. I did confess to her. Police must have had dreams. I did. Thanks. 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 on that night, there was a man that was a guy coming from the cornfield to get this man. And a search of Hall's house and van revealed he'd been casing out small college towns and keeping suspicious notes. Seen joggers and bikers, many alone. Check colleges, parks, scene some prospects. Hall also made lists for the hardware store. By two more plastic tarps, cover all floor and sides of van. And Hall wrote himself troubling instructions. Nobody contact by condoms. By two more leather belts. Find one now. Amongst Hall's things, investigators found newspaper clippings about Roach and Wrightler, possessions from other missing girls, and pornographic pictures Hall had altered.

In those pictures, he had drawn what looked like a rope or a belt around the neck of one of the people. And on the left side of the mouth, he had drawn blood. Hall insisted he 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 it'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. The federal system, if you're guilty of kidnapping, if that kidnapping resulted in the death, then under the Sensing Guidelines, is mandatory life term. The Jessica Roach case was over, but the disappearance of Trisha Wrightler remained unsolved. And her parents, Gary and Donna, could not stop looking. We walked the sides of the roads.

We walked the river beds. You know, we looked under the culverts. You know, we ended up going to crack houses because somebody had a lead. If you see something on the side of the road, a garbage bag, whatever, it's like, could that be her? It was just a horrendous crime. It'll lose your daughter, never find out what that happened to her. Larry Beaumont kept looking too. Well, I actually made arrangements and a couple of occasions to go out and look for the body. Beaumont called in specialized military and law enforcement units to search. Well, we weren't able to find it. So rather than give up, it occurred to me that obviously Larry Hall knew. Beaumont needed answers and turned to an unlikely source to get them. Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have Exema. So I get how it can steal your time. But why let Exema take over when you can talk to your doctor about Epglis? Epglis, lubricism ab LBKZ, a 250 milligram per 2

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has what you need for the season ahead with brands like Loric Aller, Philosophy, Ninja, and so many more. Shop now at QVC.com. Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have Exima. So I get how it can steal your time. But why let Exima take over when you can talk to your doctor about Epglis? Epglis, lubricism app, LBKZ, a 250 milligram per 2-militre injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe axima. Also called a topic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies. Epglis can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you are allergic to Epglis. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. Eye problems can occur. Tell your doctor if you have newer, worsening eye problems. You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with Epglis. Before starting Epglis, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Paid partnership with Lily.

Respect your time. Ask your doctor about Epglis and visit Epglis.com or call 1-800-LilyRX or 1-800-545-5979. He needed someone to befriend Larry Hall. Someone charismatic. Someone on the inside. Larry Beaumont needed Jimmy Keane. Beaumont had sent both Keane and Hall to prison. Now he hatched a risky plan that would bring them together. Keane was 10 months into his sentence when Beaumont brought him in to talk. Scared me, I thought this was some trick. Keane watched nervously as Beaumont pushed a folder across the table. And I opened it up. And the first thing I seen was a picture of a mutilated dead girl. And I flipped the next page. And there was a different mutilated dead girl. And there was a portrait of Trisha Wrightler. At that moment, I looked up at Beaumont. And he says, Jimmy, we need you to help us with this case.

Beaumont wanted Keane to go undercover to transfer from his low security lock-up to a dangerous prison. And to befriend alleged serial killer, Larry Hall. He says, if you can get solid confessions from him, and if you can help us locate the bodies that are still missing, we're willing to completely wash your record. Keane's mission to learn where Trisha Wrightler was buried. Purpose of this operation was to find that body. Beaumont made it clear. Nobody, no early release. Keane would have to serve the rest of his 10-year sentence. But Beaumont believed Keane could do it. He's smart. He's articulate. He's not afraid. And I knew he wanted to get out. For Keane, it was a chance for redemption to restore his family name. Anne says author Hillel Levin to get his life back on track. This deal was a way for him to get home. And it was also a way for him to do good,

to kind of take this bad thing he had done and to somehow turn it inside out and make it something that would solve a crime. But it wouldn't be easy, fair to say he was risking his life. He could have been killed. It was dangerous, absolutely. It was highly risky. These people in all type of places haven't got anything better to do, but try to hurt you and kill you too. Keane was unsure, but a phone call home put his doubts to rest. Keane's stepmother said his father had suffered a stroke. She said he's in really bad shape. We wish you were here. This is terrible that you're in a spot where you're in right now, because we could lose him. Keane needed to get home to Kankake fast. And there was only one way to make that happen. He had to face an alleged serial killer first. I just thought, you know what? However bizarre or how far out or whatever this mission that Beaumont wants me to go on, I'm going to do it.

MUSIC Driving up to the prison in Springfield, Missouri, Jimi Keane didn't know if he'd made the best or worst decision of his life. I started to get cold feet, and I looked at the US Mars and I said, listen, I said, you know, how do we know Beaumont's going to live up to his word? They all assured me he would. So, you know, I'm not really sure if I can do this. But there was no turning back, and he needed to prepare. Agents had warned him to be careful. We don't want you to approach him for at least six months, because he's a very cagey individual. If he senses one thing wrong, he goes into his shell like a turtle and you'll never get him back out once he's in. But Keane didn't have time to wait. He needed to get home to his ailing father. So hours after becoming a Springfield inmate,

he spotted Larry Hall and made his first move. I made it a point for us to bump shoulders together. And as we gently bump shoulders together, I turned around and said, oh, excuse me. I said, listen, I said, I'm new here. I said, you wouldn't happen to know where the library is, would you? Hall offered to show Keane the way. And I just reached out and I kind of slapped him on the shoulder. And I said, thanks a lot. I appreciate that from a cool guy like you. Over the next week, Keane watched Hall's every move from his cell across the hall. And I walked up to him and I says, hey, this is where I'm that. I said, are you in this area here? And he goes, yeah, I'm right there. And I only bugs his eyes out of his head. That's all, well, that's great. I said, you're right by me. I said, you know what? I told you you were a cool guy. And I'm glad that you're by me and all this and that. And that's when he basically offered some time if I ever want to have breakfast with him and his friends. Keane was making progress slowly gaining Hall's trust. But life at Springfield was complicated and dangerous.

So Keane figured out a way to use violence to his advantage. He was a Saturday night and Hall was in the TV room. Mes Marais, by an episode of America's Most Wanted, about serial killers. Suddenly, another inmate approached the TV. And you could tell this guy had been in for a long time. He was a real big buff guy. And he just walked up to the TV, looked at everybody and then he decided he was going to turn the TV channel. And he turned it. And I found this very interesting. Larry looked at me and very quietly mumbled under his breath. He goes, hey, I was watching that show. Keane leaped into action and knocked the guy out. And I nailed him with an upper cut. And then I kicked him through three rows of chairs. He was beat up real bad and had to go to the hospital. And they took me in through 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's think time cool coming from him.

That's a compliment. And now he's also able to protect me. Now Keane had Hall's trust and had him talking. One night in Hall's cell, he told Keane the truth about what happened to Trisha Ritler. But what Hall told Keane was different from what some investigators believed. It was his story along with some evidence, a creative road map. I wanted to follow to try to figure out what happened to Trisha Ritler. Trisha would have left this supermarket parking lot, walking just a couple of blocks back to campus. Somewhere along this road, Hall told Keane he got Trisha into his van. When she fought off his advances, he says he choked her to keep her quiet.

Hall told Keane he blacked out. And when he woke up, Trisha said, she was naked and lifeless. Days after her disappearance, investigators found her blood-sought clothes here, just one block from the supermarket. Hall's own notes indicate what might have happened next. Exactly one week after Trisha's disappearance, Hall wrote, cut out staying carpet, vacuumed van thoroughly, buy new hacksaw blades, clean all tools. Along with his notes was this address, 700 West Slokom, where in the woods halfway between Marion and Wabash, and it is possible that somewhere out here that Trisha Ritler is buried. He said so he got some lime together, he got a shovel and he got a lantern, and he drove her way out into the woods

and he buried her out in the woods. He admitted to you that he buried her in the woods. Several times, he's admitted that. Yes. I basically made him feel like it was okay to tell me his secret. But Keane still needed the secret that would set him free, the exact location of Trisha's body. Weeks later, he thought he nailed it when he found Hall hovered over the woods and Hall hovered over a map in the prison workshop. It was a map with red dots over Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin and he covered it up really fast. Lined up at the edge of the map, or a dozen wooden falcons. And I said, well, this is pretty... Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have Exema, so I get how it can steal your time. But why let Exema take over when you can talk to your doctor about Ebglyce. Ebglyce, lubricism app, LBKZ, a 250-milligram per 2-milliliter injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults

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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. Keen believed he had his answer. That he'd soon be free. That he was done forever with Larry Hall. So that night, at lockdown, Keen decided to tell Hall what he really thought. I told him that he was a f***ing sickle. I told him that he was insane. I said that you are one of the most despicable forms of human life in this planet. He, at that point, slid away from me and was like really terrified of me all of a sudden. And he says, Beaumont sent you, didn't he? Beaumont sent you, didn't he? Keen had blown his cover and his outbursts landed him in solitary confinement. It took some time before we found out that they put Jimmy in the hole. And so he was not able to communicate with anybody on the outside. By then, Hall's map and the Falcons had disappeared.

Worst of all, as Keen was led out of Springfield prison to face Larry Beaumont, he didn't know if what he'd learned was enough to set him free. During his months in Springfield, Jimmy Keen got Larry Hall to provide details about several murders Hall was suspected of committing, including Trisha Wightlers. But Keen was not able to make a mistake. During his months in Springfield, Jimmy Keen got Larry Hall to provide details about several murders Hall was suspected of committing, including Trisha Wightlers. But Keen hadn't met the original requirements of Larry Beaumont's deal. And I told him this myself made it clear to him that if we didn't find a body, nobody, no credit. Sitting in his prison cell, Jimmy Keen desperately hoped he had done enough. Are they going to be fair and give me what's justifiably right on this, or are they just going to say, here's six months?

It was a craft shoot. Without a location for Wightlers' body, Beaumont had a decision to make. I made a mistake and take a paragraph to us just to verify what he was telling us. It wasn't the truth. Which he passed, and he didn't make a legitimate effort to do what we sent him down there to do. So Beaumont urged a federal judge to give Keen credit for time served. Jimmy Keen became a free man and returned home to his aging father. What did you feel like when you were finally released? I was happy it could be. It was a very bizarre roller coaster that I went on. It was, I mean, a redemption at its best. Keen had five more good years to be with his father before Big Jim passed away. We both realized once I got out that there is a better world than just always in a constant dash to make money. It was more like, look, let's just enjoy each other while we're alive here.

It was closure for Keen, but not for the families of the alleged victims of Larry Hall. For years, there was no progress and no relief for people like Donna and Gary Wightler. There's a parent, there's the part that you've let her down. And that you want to find her and you want to bring her home and you can't. I mean, we've done pretty much physically everything that we can to find her. And there's somebody out there that holds that one answer for us. Beaumont too felt he'd done all he could and that the pursuit of Larry Hall was over. There wasn't going to be no further prosecution from the federal perspective. He's already serving life in prison and he wasn't going to, you know, he was done. Once again, Larry Hall had slipped off the radar and it easily could have remained that way. Except for Jim and Keen. First, Keen's story of strange redemption was featured in a Playboy article and then a book written by Keen and Hillel Levin.

Once we were able to write about what Jim and Went through, then things happened. Keen's story refocused attention on Larry Hall. Helped reopen cold cases and put pressure on his twin brother, Gary. Now Gary stopped defending Larry and started talking. Larry just like Jimmy Keen calls him and he is. He's a baby killer. You think your brother is a baby killer. I don't have no doubt my mind. Do you think your brother killed more than Jessica Roach? Yes. Do you think your brother killed Tricia Reitler? Yes. Rainer Eisen? Michelle Dewey? Yes. As Gary started talking more openly, detectives approached him asking for help. I went with the Indianapolis detectives down to try to get my brother to confess.

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. I wanted to think if he did it. If I didn't really do the right things, change the way my life was going. Larry Hall refused our requests for an interview. He has never been charged with crimes against anyone other than Jessica Roach. But Keen's story has caused officials across the country to take another look at Hall. In November of 2010, investigators from the town of Manashin Police Department interviewed Mr. Hall at a federal prison in North Carolina. In that interview, Hall admitted murdering Laurie DePees and provided clues about where to find her body.

There's multiple agencies that are looking into him reference throwing saw disappearances. Larry Hall may have had more victims than ever imagined. We understand it's even more extensive than we ever thought. Not 20, but maybe 30 to 40 in terms of the victims. That leaves 30 or 40 families still awaiting answers, which is why says 11, it is critical that serial investigations do not stop. Two decades after Trisha Wright levanished her father, Gary, now believes Larry Hall knows where to find her. I think if Larry knew what we go through on a daily basis, you know, wondering where she is, wondering what happened, I don't think he would have any choice to confess and let us know where she's buried. Donna Wrightler is not a sure. Yeah, he confessed he recanted. He confessed he recanted.

Without a body, it's just another possibility. More than anything else, they just want their daughter back. To have a place to lay her to rest, just to be able to sit and just talk to her. As for Jimmy Keane, his truth is stranger than fiction. He's gone from football standout to drug dealer to undercover operative. And now to screen star with his story in development as a Hollywood film. Still says Keane, he thinks of the victims' families and hopes they'll find their answers. That's all they can do is keep hoping. There was a glimmer of hope when Jimmy Keane was involved here. Maybe it's something else will still evolve out of this. Maybe the things I've done and I'm still doing will still shine a light and give them hope at some point.

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