some were found murdered. others were never found at all. laura depese, 20, in appleton, wisconsin, reyna rison, wendy felton, 16, from marion, 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, what happened. >> peace, for grieving families. >> you want to find her and bring her home and you can't.

>> they don't just turn around and give candy and say you're free to go, i went through hell and back. >> early each day, donna reitler greets her daughter, trisha. >> every morning i say good morning to this picture, i look at that and can hear her say, hi, mom. >> trisha was very kind, smart. >> as a child, her father says she lit up the room. >> she would just run into the room, spread her arms apart, say ta da, that type of thing. >> donna and gary brought trisha here to marion, indiana, to attend college, one evening she

left her dorm room for a walk. on march 29th, around 8:00 at night, trisha came here and bought a soda and magazine and then started to walk back to campus. but then, she disappeared. >> phone call came in a little bit after midnight. and the voice on the other side of the phone said do you know where your daughter is? >> 19-year-old trisha lin reitler was last seen about 8:00. >> her disappearance rocked the community and devastated her parents. >> whoever is responsible, we'll never know what they have taken away from us. >> trisha's mother made a desperate plea on the jerry springer show. >> we are doing everything we can to find you. >> despite huge media coverage and their pleas for answers none ever came. >> it is like she just vanished into thin air.

>> trisha was never found. >> the young college students, they need to be aware. >> kristin zeller was a junior when trisha disappeared. >> we were advised to stay in our dorms if you were a girl. >> but a week after trisha's disappearance, she and her roommate needed to go to the grocery store. >> it is not far at all, i can see the campus, so you know, what is going to happen? >> it was getting dark by the time they left the shopping center walking the same route trisha would likely have taken. >> we were maybe half way up the road when heather turned to me and said did you -- did you happen to notice that brown van? i said no. >> then the van passed again slowly. >> we still were not alarmed. he came by again. >> a third time. >> yes, 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 and at that point we were both like run, just run. >> the girls called security, describing a two tone van driven by a man with mutton-chopped side burns, officers spotted the van, and questioned the driver, a man named larry hall. hall said he was looking for a man'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. >> we all knew 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 are times you wonder if you will solve it. but then you keep checking everything out. re-checking. >> for over a year, miller looked through 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 had not 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 them to get in your van. he said well, 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. >> immediately, he flinched. he turned to his right and put his hand up over his face like he didn't want to see the picture. told me he didn't think he had ever seen that girl. >> later, a heartbreaking mystery. >> there is so little that we can do to find her. i just want to bring her home. >> and the dangerous plan to solve it. n apply sunblock to your kids' wet skin.

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>> 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 is larry? >> this would be me. >> gary and larry. >> yeah. >> 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. and i had not had enough oxygen to me or something. >> identical twin sons, growing up hard in the hall home there was little money. and lots of problems. larry hall had been interviewed. >> it was a very cluttered household. they were raised with dysfunction. >> neighbors say their mother dominated. their 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. 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 my wife and i and what a lot of fellow classmates called the misfits or the stinky crowd. >> still, the boys were best friends, and gary and larry developed a new habit as civil war reenactors. >> i met a lot of friends during that period. and i was able to travel around and meet them on the battlefield, and go on tours. it was a lot of fun. >> larry was hooked, even growing mutton chops from his hairline to his jowl.

he still struggled. >> what was larry like growing up? >> very awkward, quiet. >> did he ever talk about his urges? he reportedly said he had urges about women? >> oh, my gosh, it was absolutely -- it was out of bounds. i had no idea. >> jimmy keene grew up 135 miles away in kankakee, illinois, he didn't know larry hall, and he had no idea that their worlds would some day collide. for jimmy keene, life couldn't have been more different.

while hall was an awkward outsider, jimmy keene was a star, especially under the lights on friday nights. >> we would come out here, the lights would be on. the whole stadium would be just completely full and the crowd would be roaring. and it was just a very euphoric, unbelievable high. the friday night games were the b biggest rush i have ever had in my life. >> a gifted athlete, he lettered in two sports. studied martial arts and inspired fear in everyone he faced. do you like having people be afraid of you just a little bit? >> well, in that kind of sport, sure, that is why they called me the assassin. >> you were the assassin? >> yes, that was my nickname, and the reason was, i put somebody out every game i

played. >> keene was not just the hometown hero, he was his dad's namesake. >> my dad generally sat over here, if i made a spectacular play, he would say you did good, son. >> how many times would he be out here? >> never ever missed a game. >> did that mean a lot to you? >> absolutely, my dad was my backbone. >> keene was as popular as he was athletic. you were a legend? >> yeah, there was no doubt. they had posters of me all around town, everybody knew who i was with my sports ability. yeah, i was the most popular guy around, no question, i was voted the 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 and by the time i was 20 years old, i mean, i was sitting on top of an empire. >> by keene's own account he was pulling in around a million dollars a year. he was addicted. not to the drugs, but the money. >> it is hard to walk away from that kind of money, especially a 20-year-old. >> so he didn't. and that single decision would change the rest of jimmy keene's life. and bring him face to face with an alleged serial killer. premie. hi, i'm tom kruse, inventor and founder of hoveround. now you can do more, see more, enjoy life more. here's why hoveround makes it easier than any other power chair. [ male announcer ] hoveround is more maneuverable to get you through the tightest doors and hallways.

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. >> license plate extra hp. >> extra hp. >> by the early '90s, jimmy keene was on top of the world. his booming business afforded

him a lavish life-style, with large homes, souped up corvettes, and an endless supply of women. >> i would have 30 or 40 keg parties with volleyball nets, live bands, we would have literally a thousand people or more sometimes, these were huge parties. >> you were the guy women wanted to be with, and guys wanted to be best friends with? >> something like that. >> 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 walk-in closet. >> but there was alws a place to hide his fortune. >> 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 safe is still here. and this was pretty much my fort knox room. >> for 15 years, keene's empire

remained hidden and growing. but as he lived the high life, his father fell on 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 is rigright e his world right. >> but the money never seemed to be enough. and keene couldn't stop watching his back. by the fall of 1996, the pressure of life in the fast lane was catching up. >> i had woke up in the middle of the night, i was tired of running like this. i said i really just wanted it all about to end. >> and it was about to end, but not the way keene had planned. just two weeks later? >> i heard the front door

rattle, i thought it was just the wind, it was in november. and next thing you know, boom, the whole door is blown off, and they came flying in with their guns drawn, and their black uniforms. just move one time, we'll blow your head off. >> for jimmy keene it was over. >> everything stops and goes in slow motion. you don't even feel like it was real. >> keene was ultimately dragged to jail. he pled guilty, hoping to minimize his sentence. and at first, federal prosecutor larry beaumont was willing to negotiate. >> initially we tried to flip him, to see if he would give us other drug dealers at the time. and i think he refused, so our reaction was make sure he gets the maximum penalty. beaumont got his way, and keene got ten years. it knocked the life out of him and broke his father's heart. >> the hopes and dreams he had

had for me at that point in life were gone. he was crushed. he was very crushed. >> jimmy keene could not imagine a way out, nor guess that a man he had never met might some day provide him one. november, 1994. wabash, indiana. it had been two weeks since larry hall recoiled from a photo of jessica roach. and investigator gary miller had a gut instinct. >> i really think we're on to something here. this guy portrays this weak, timid person, but i don't think he truly is. >> miller thought hall was vicious, and as the investigation unfolded miller thought he knew how hall abducted jessica roach. >> when he first saw her she was

riding down the house, going this way. >> hall followed and stopped to talk. jessica got scared and backed away. >> that is when he opens the door, grabs her, there is 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 wa s 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 was not 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 had also been near the campus of indiana wesleyan university where trisha reitler had disappeared. i was over there because i needed to be with somebody, there was a small shopping center. he had a van, hall said he raped and strangled a girl there, too, then he identified his victim by pointing to trisha's picture, her disappearance had remained a mystery for 18 months. >> we were just kind of sitting on the sidelines for information to come in. >> with little evidence and 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 reitlers 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 well, i was just telling you about my dreams. that didn't really happen. he said it was just my dreams. and i said well, larry, you said that wasn't what happened, you didn't like the things that you had done but you never mentioned it being a dream. >> but he stuck to his new story. larry hall was recanting everything.

. >> 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. >> but investigator gary miller had other evidence. like the witness who drove by this corn field 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 van, a guy coming from the corn field to get in his van. >> and a seararch of hall's hou and van indicated he had been casing areas. seeing joggers and bikers, many alone, check colleges and parks, seeing some prospects. hall also made lists for the hardware store. buy two more plastic tarps, cover all floor inside the van. and hall wrote himself troubling instructions. no body contact, buy condoms,

buy two more leather belts. find one now. among hall's things, investigators found newspaper clippings about roach and reitler, possessions from other missing girls and pornographic pictures that hall had altered. >> in one of the pictures, he had a rope around 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 in, because i knew they would 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,

if that kidnapping resulted in a death then under the sentencing guidelines it is a mandatory life term. >> the jessica roach case was over. but the disappearance of tricia reitler remained unsolved. and her parents, gary and donna, could not stop looking. >> we have walked the sides of the roads, the river beds. you know, we looked under the culverts. 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, could that be your daughter? >> it was just a horrible crime, never finding out what happened to her. >> larry beaumont kept looking, too. >> i actually made arrangements on a couple of occasions to go out looking for the body. >> beaumont called special law enforcement units to search. >> but we were not able to find anything. 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. he needed someone to befriend larry hall, somebody with charisma, somebody on the inside, he needed keene, beaumont had sent keene to prison, and now hatched a risky plan that would bring them together. keene was ten months into his sentence when beaumont brought him into talk. >> scared me, i thought it was a trick. >> keene watched nervously as documentary pushed a folder across the table. >> and i open it up. the first thing i seen was a picture of a mutilated dead girl. and i flipped the page, and there was another one. >> and there was a portrait of tricia reitler. >> at that moment, i looked at him, he said he needed my help.

>> beaumont wanted him to go undercover, from his security lock-up to a dangerous prison, and befriend an alleged serial killer, larry hall. >> he said 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. >> keene's mission? to learn where tricia reitler's body was buried. beaumont made it clear, no body, no early release. keene would have to serve the rest of his ten-year sentence. but beaumont believed keene could do it. >> he is smart, articulate. he is not afraid. and i knew he wanted to get out. >> for keene, it was a chance to restore his family name. and says author levin, to get his life back on track. >> this deal was a way for him to get home and also a way for him to do good. to kind of take this bad thing

he had done and 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 those type of places haven't got anything better to do than to try to hurt you and kill you, too. >> keene was unsure, but a phone call home put his doubts to rest. keene's stepmother said his father had suffered a stroke. >> she said he is 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. >> keene needed to get home to kankakee fast, and there was only one way to make that happen. he had to face an alleged serial killer first. >> i decided, 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.

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>> driving up to the prison in springfield, missouri, jimmy keene didn't know if he made the best or the worst decision of his life. >> i started to get cold feet. and i looked at the u.s. marshal and said listen, how do we know beaumont is going to live up to his word? they all said he would. i said you know, i'm not sure, i can really do this. but there is no turning back. agents had warned him to be careful. >> we don't want you to approach him for at least six months because he is a very cagey individual, if he senses one thing wrong he goes into a shell like a turtle and you will never

get him back out. >> but keene didn't have time to wait, he needed to get home to his father. so hours into the situation, he spotted larry hall and made his move. >> i made it a point to bump shoulders with him. i said listen, i'm new here, you wouldn't happen to know where the library is, would you? >> hall offered to show keene the way. >> i slapped him on the shoulder, i said thank you, i appreciate that from a cool guy like you. >> over the next week, keene watched hall's every move from his cell across the wall. >> and i walked up to him. i said hey, this is why i'm at, are you in this area right here? he said yeah, right there, he bugs his eyes out of his head. i said you know what, i told you you're a cool guy, i'm glad you're by me, and all that. he offered sometime if i wanted to have breakfast with him and

his friends. >> keene was making progress, 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. >> and you could tell this guy had been in for a long time. he was a big, buff guy. and he looked add everybot ever decided he would change the channel. and i found this interesting, larry looked at me and said 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 and had to go to the hospital.

they took me and threw me in the hole. >> it was worth it. and there was a breakthrough. >> he now looks at me, thinking wow, he thinks i'm cool, coming from him, that is a compliment. and now he is 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 road map 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. somewhere along this road, hall told keene he got tricia into his van, when she fought off his advances he said he choked her to keep her quiet. hall told keene he blacked out. and when he woke up, tricia was naked and lifeless. days after her disappearance, investigators found her blood-soaked clothes here, just a block from the supermarket. hall's own notes indicate what might have happened next. exactly a week after tricia's disappearance, hall wrote cut out stain carpet. vacuumed van thoroughly. buy new hacksaw blades, clean all tools. along with his notes was this address, 700 west in the woods,

half way between marion and wabash. and it is possible that somewhere out here that tricia reitler is buried. >> he said so he got some line together, a shovel, a lantern, and drove her out in the woods and buried her out in the woods. >> he admitted to you he buried her in the woods? >> several times he admitted it. i basically made him feel like it was okay to tell me the secret. >> but keene still needed the secret that would set him free. the exact location of tricia's body. weeks later he thought he nailed it when he thought he found hall hovered over a map in the prison workshop. >> it was a map with red dots over illinois, and wisconsin, and he covered it up really fast. >> lined up at the edge of the map were a dozen falcons. >> i said this is really cool,

did you make it? he said yeah, it is really cool, they watch over the dead. >> 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. in that moment, did you think this was my ticket to freedom? >> i did, because i thought this is it. i have solid confessions out of him. we know specific details. we know how he has done it now. >> keene believed he had his answer, that he would 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 that he was a bleep sicko, i told him he was insane, i said you are one of the most despicable forms of human life on the planet. he at that point slid away from me and was terrified. and he said beaumont sent you,

didn't he, beaumont sent you, didn't he? >> keene had blown his cover and his outbreak landed him in solitary confinement. >> it took some time before we found out they put jimmy in the hole, and he was not able to communicate. >> by then, hall's map and the falcons had disappeared. worst of all, as keene was let out of springfield prison to face larry beaumont he didn't know if what he had learned was enough to set him free. what doo when you can no longer get around like you used to? when you fear losing your independence, who do you call? call hoveround now to see if you qualify for america's premier power chair. hi, i'm tom kruse, inventor and founder of hoveround. now you can do more, see more, enjoy life more. here's why hoveround makes it easier than any other power chair. [ male announcer ] hoveround is more maneuverable to get you through the tightest doors and hallways. more reliable. hoveround employees build your chair, deliver your chair,

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>> during his months in springfield, jimmy keene got larry hall to provide details about several murders hall was suspected of committing, including tricia reitler's. but keene had not met the original requirements of larry beaumont's deal. >> i told him myself, made it clear to him, if we didn't find a body, no credit. >> sitting in his prison cell, jimmy keene desperately hoped he had done enough. >> are they going to be fair and give me what is justifiably

right on this, or give me six months? it was a crap shoot. >> without the body, beaumont had a decision to make. >> i made arrangements to have him take a polygraph test, just to verify what he was told was true. and we did make a legitimate effort to go down there. so he asked a judge to give him credit for time served. jimmy keene became a free man and returned home to his aging father. what did you feel like when you were finally released? >> i was happy as could be. it was a very bizarre roller coaster i was on. it was redemption at its best. >> keene had five good years to spend with his father before he passed away. >> when i got out, i realized there was a better world than always in a constant dash to make money.

it was look, let's just enjoy each other while we're alive here, you know? >> it was closure for keene, 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 reitler. >> as a parent, there is the part that you have 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 is somebody out there that holds that one answer for us. >> beaumont, too, felt he had done all he could and that the pursuit of larry hall was over. >> there was not going to be any further prosecution from the federal perspective. he was already serving life in prison. he was done. >> once again, larry hall had slipped off the radar. and it easily could have remained that way, except for jimmy keene.

first, keene's story of strange redemption was featured in a playboy article, and then a book written by keene and hillel levin. >> once we were able to write about what jimmy went through, then things changed. >> keene's book helped to put pressure on the twin brother, now, gary stopped defending larry and started talking. >> larry, just like jimmy keene calls him, he is, he is a baby killer. >> you think your brother is a baby killer? >> i don't have no doubt in my mind. >> do you think your brother killed more than jessica roach? >> yes. >> do you think your brother killed tricia reitler? >> yes. >> rayna rison? >> yes. >> michelle dewey? >> yes.

>> as he started talking more openly, detectives approached him looking for help. >> i went with the indianapolis detectives down to try to get my brother 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 it. i wanted to think that it would be different. you know, that -- guess i didn't really do the right things to change the way my life was going. >> larry hall refused our request for an interview. he has never been charged with crimes against anyone other than jessica roach. but keene's story has caused officials across the country to take another look at hall. >> november of 2010, investigators from the police department interviewed mr. hall

at a federal prison in north carolina. >> in that interview, hall admitted murdering laurie depies, and provided clues about where to find her body. >> there are multiple agencies looking into him referencing unsolved mysteries. >> larry hall may have had more victims than ever imagined. >> we understand it is 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 levin, it is critical that serial investigations do not stop. two decades after tricia reitler vanished, 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 is buried. >> donna reitler is not as sure. >> yeah, he confessed, he recanted, he confessed, he recanted. without a body it is just nothing more than a 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 keene, his truth is stranger than fiction. he has 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 keene, he thinks of the victims' families and hopes

they will find their answers. >> that is all they can do is keep hoping. there was a glimmer of hope when hall was involved in this. maybe the things i've done and still am doing will shine and give them a light west memphis police discovered the bodies of three 8-year-old boys in a drainage ditch. >> autopsies showed they died from blows to the head. >> a horrific crime. three young boys murdered. >> at 9:00 that night i knew that i would never see him alive again. >> three teenage boys suspected. >> i wanted to bash their head up against the wall, kick their face in. >> three teens, demonized.