i cannot explain it. to me it makes no sense. >> i love my husband then. i love my husband now. we had a good marriage, we still have a good marriage >> you think that your marriag will survive this? >> yeah. i have no doubt that that will we survive ten and a half year of separation. we survived a trial, prison. i don't know what else there could be >> that's all for this edition of dateline. i am craig melvin. thank you for watching >> i'm craig melvin. and i'm natalie morales. and this is dateline >> he goes to him, and he says

there are these little falcons and he says they watch over th dead and he goes, they do >> what if someone asked you t risk your life >> what if i shape get changed what if i get killed >> to go undercover. and one of the country's mos dangerous presents >> once they stepped out the door, i was on my own. >> they helped him catch a killer >> she had such a zest for life >> young girls were bein murdered >> i can't imagine sending m daughter off to school, an never seeing her again >> and investigators neede health to get a confession >> if anyone could pull it off he would be the problem to pul it off >> but this was different, h was always be a convicte felon. if it worked, he could win his freedom, if it did, it he coul lose his life. >> they had your back? >> they had my back. >> that's what you thought >> that's what i thought ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello

and welcome to dateline. jimmy kaine was a smooth talking convict serving a te year sentence. when he was offered a deal if he helped prosecutors pry a confession from a suspecte serial killer, including a location of the victims body he could walk away a free man. and it was dangerous undercove work requiring him to spen life behind bars of a federa fifth is present of th criminally insane. getting and was easy, gettin out alive would be much harder here is lester holt with the inside man >> two enemies, who did no trust each other faced off across the table one of them in handcuffs was a clever con named jimmy keen. the other? a hard charging prosecutor >> - >> the prisoner was worrie sick larry beaumont's, th

prosecutor who had jus convicted keen and put him behind bars. suddenly wanted to talk. a top secret meeting, no less. what more could he do to jimmy >> it was the last person expected to hear from. it was my biggest fear >> but keith fears went off th chart, when the prosecutor sli an accordion file in his direction. on top was a grisly photo of a dead girl. >> i flip to the next page, an here is another dead girl. i'm thinking, whoa, wait a second >> he's thinking at this point you're about to charge him wit something else >> yes because i had been pretty roug on him in the initia prosecution. >> jimmy was in the dark he had no idea of the craz scheme that beaumont had i mind >> he says jimmy, he say listen this is something that we ha another person on. he has killed many, many young women. and i personally think that yo are the one that can help us with this. >> this, turned out to be an

investigation into trying to catch a suspected serial killer beaumont, an outside the box thinker, believe that this conflict, jimmy key, was the one who could somehow crack th case taking on a unique, and deadly mission. >> i realized how serious it was, and i also realize th danger of it >> but what he could not kno was how such a daring missio would change his world and the person that he was forever. if this all seems fodder for a hollywood movie, brad pitt would agree. the megastar who was benjami button, and money balls big d b, considered playing none othe than jimmy kaine >> brad pitt likes the fac that this guy, jimmy keen, risked his life to try to find what he could find >> clearly, this guy is one of a kind charismatic, conceded, courageous, and complicated.

from an early age, he had th personality, charm, an cockiness that made a drea that are hollywood star woul one day one to play him in the movies his first big brush with fam came on the football field >> i heard that they called yo the assassin in football that was a good thing i take it >> yes, i was taught by my dad at a young age he says son, he goes, if you don't hit that guy first, he's gonna hit you and hurt you first. >> a superstar athlete, and mr popularity in high school. he seemed to have it all as big fish in the river city i illinois a blue collar town south o chicago. >> i had was the most valuable player, i was the captain ever year that i played >> he grew up in the shadow of his father, big jim, a giant o a man who was a cop, firefighter, and hero to his son. >> he was my best friend he was on my back on everythin i did. >> but all this potential woul be put into peril by a terribl

choice that he made. as a teenager, he began to sel drugs. he started small peddling bags of marijuana here in this park. then he expanded to cocaine, and at the tender age of 17, h moved to chicago where the business, and profits exploded he was now a big fish in a bigger pond. lake michigan, to be exact he was his own in crowd. fast cars, and souped up living >> all the hotspots, all the big nightclubs all the owners i was tight with i would have lunch at ever place i went to. >> where you - >> yes there was a certain point where it wasn' invincible feeling >> did your father now he's suspect >> he didn't suspect until much, much later >> it would be a rude awakenin for both his dad, and jimm that day in 1996 when jimmy wa just relaxing and one of his chicago homes. >> and all of a sudden, come boom, the whole door is blew

off. the hinges come flying into th house. and all this da, fbi, an locals came in in fine gol line and weapons pointed telling me to get on the ground >> he -- spearheaded by the hard-nose federal prosecutor, larr beaumont >> we scooped him up in an operation that iran. we called it operation snowplow >> and in court, beaumon showed keen no mercy >> he was coming at you on all fours? >> oh yeah he's a bulldog >> jimmy was convicted, an slapped with a ten yea sentence >> it was a ten year sentence, and i knew he did not expect t get ten years in that case >> your farther was in the courtroom? >> i knew i let him down i probably one of the bigges ways you can let someone down. >> his future was bleak, h faced ten years away from hi glamorous life the fancy cars, the big bucks. but in 1998, just when all hop

seemed loss. his old nemesis, beaumont, cam to him with an offer o freedom. attached to that accordion fil that he slip across the table. in return, cain would have t agree to risk everything and become an undercover informant in one of th roughest provisions in the country. the maximum security lockup in springfield, missouri. it was a psychiatric pridgen with both hard-core killers, and the criminally insane. >> these people all have lif sentences. they're all in their, and thei crazy. and they have nothing better t do than trying to hurt you, an kill, you for some fun >> if he accepted bull monte offered, his target would be the suspected serial killer. a mysterious man in a van. >> coming up every picture tells a story. >> when i put the picture down he flinched. raised his arm up, and refused

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came to arrest and conviction, the drug business was booming. and the personal life, as he tells, it was nonstop fun an games. a lot of hot clubs here in the 90s. >> this was the place that you are doing business as well >> we want to play right her

yes. it was a good time >> back then, he had no idea about the danger lurking 150 miles south and a lifestyl away that will change his life forever. rural, tranquil georgetown illinois is where carrie roach and her husband were raising their 15 year old daughter jesse and two other children fire removed from the big city crime. >> everybody knew everybody was, so they were conscious of what was going on usually you can count on somebody to g after your kids if they need it >> in 1993, jessie was a hig school sophomore devoted son home and family. >> jesse was really very muc of a home body, so one of th road and back, she was done, and then she would be watching gone with the wind >> one money in september, jessie went out for a bike rid but just minutes later, he sister noticed jesse's beloved bike down on its side. in the middle of the road. >> not on the side of the road

in the middle of the road? >> yeah. she would put the kick stand down instead of the bicycle, she would never lay the bicycl down, and immediately went dow there and there was a bicycle. and we knew something wa wrong. >> gary miller was the deput sheriff of dispatched to the scene. >> the more that we learne about the family and the girl' background, we just did no feel that she was staying away by choice. >> a hunting image of a bike tripped over and abandon terrified all the investigator and of course jesse's family >> you never lose the hope for them not wanting to come and walk, in we knew that she wa not just gonna walk away >> after six weeks, jessie's parents worst fears were realized, her body, beaten and sexually violated wa discovered in a cornfield. >> it can never be easy tellin

apparent that their child is dead >> no. it was not but at least we were able to tell them that this is her and she is gone. we were able to erase al doubts >> gary murder had a murde case dissolve and it was now a federal case involving prosecutor larry beaumont as well since jessie's body had actually been followed acros the illinois state line. for the next year, miller di lots of legwork but to n avail. >> every day you get up in you thinking about this case >> oh yeah >> what if i missed >> exactly. >> i know this case really shook him from the beginning and he would check any and all leads with that would involv girls, and run them down >> then, in late 1994, his persistence paid off a man in a van had bee reported chasing two teenage girls in jessie's hometown o georgetown miller trace the van to a ma named larry hall, from indiana a three hour drive fro

georgetown >> is the heartbeat starting t pick up a little bit >> yeah. i think this has to be checked out. >> miller learned that hall wa a gun war civil war in reenactor. a soldier who traveled the midwest to fight fancy battles he immediately drove their t interview hall who was not saying much, so miller showe him a photo of jesse roach >> when i took the picture down, he flinched. raised his arm up and turned i his chair. and refused to look at the picture. >> convinced that larry hall was hiding something, miller became obsessed with making case against him days later, back in illinois miller turned up a huge lead he found witnesses who vividly remember hall from a revolutionary war reenactmen in the georgetown area, th very weekend before jessie was abducted to them holstered out for hi birdie she, mutton cho sideburns. but also for playing a soldier

who was fighting the wrong war >> he was rearing a civil wa uniform. and he had a civil war hat >> and a revolutionary war a reenactor? >> exactly >> armed with this new information, the deputy sherif returns to wabash for a second crack at hall. this time, he pressed hi suspects far they're saying that th reenactor's had seen him there georgetown >> he came along to the poin where he said, you know, i d so many reenactments i could'v been there i don't remember because i go to a lot of them. >> he's giving a lot mor ground >> right >> so miller see the opening and kept at it finally, he said, hall cam clean and confessed. and he abducted, sexuall violated, and strangled jess rose to death. >> how much did he give yo about the killing of jesse roach? >> good detail what he actually dead. and what took place.

>> not only that, he says that larry hall confessed to othe killings including a coed from indian university and nearby mary and indiana, name trisha wrangler. >> he did say that he wa involved >> deputy shareeduh did no know, much, so he called the indiana police who have been handling the case. but when mary entered active and other indiana cops arrived hall was suddenly telling much different story he denied confessing to an killing. including jesse's and trisha's what is more, he claimed tha it was all a misunderstanding. and about disturbing dream that he had. >> he takes us out to location, i struggle here, w left her to lay here we searched the woods, w searched the area, never found anything >> the indiana cops familiar with paul were not at al surprised by his actions some of them like j.k. thought

hall might be a want to be a pretender who gets his kicks by confessing to crimes that h did not commit >> is it possible that he is simply obsessed with these cases but not involved >> there is no doubt in my mind, that he does follow thes cases. that he does read, and i attracted to two cases all over the country so the question does come, i he a want to be? >> deputy sheriff miller, an prosecutor beaumont however, felt certain that they had a real killer on their hands a serial killer, with a unique mo he would drive cross country t reopen accidents and pla fantasy soldier. then pray on young women, an kill for real. >> the fbi started discovering girls that were in fact missin various areas. at the time that larry hal would've been there. >> but the only case which prosecutors had significan evidence was jessie roach. larry hall was arrested in connection with her death, eve

though he denied tha confession a miller. hall went on trial in 1995 >> as a prosecutor, what is th best card that you are holding >> well, we had a statement, his confession, said he did it >> valmont called deputy sheriff miller to the stand. to testify that hall had admitted that he had abducte and killed jesse, when he' spotted her with her bicycle >> he was walking the bike a the height >> in the confession, paul gav him a detail that only the killer would know. that jesse was not riding he bike, but walking it as safety precaution that th roaches insisted that they follow when on the narrow road >> that was not in the press that she was walking the mic that day >> yes >> when you heard that, did he give more credit to the story? >> yes it sealed it for me. i knew that he was the one >> a jury, unanimously agreed. it took three hours to convict larry hall but prosecutor beaumont believ

that this was just the tip o the icicle he felt certain that hall was serial killer, and he had to find a wave of proof so he began investigatin trisha's abduction a case that was in his, for family he did not know >> i can't imagine sending m daughter to school, and neve seeing her again >> and he came up with a outside the box game to ge all. which would risk the life of that charismatic convicts that he had just put away for dealing drugs. jimmy keen >> what happens when i have to deal with all of these crazy colors and stuff what if i get shanked? what if i get killed am i gonna survive this? >> jim is get out of jail free card comes with a heavy price. >> coming up >> they had your back. >> they had my back. >> that's what you thought >> that's what i thought >> when dateline continues good thing there's resolve.

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murders, to police officer unless in facts they hav probably done it but it's clear that they fel that he was responsible for th murder and disappearance >> she had a zest for life, an she would walk in the room and everybody knew she was there >> trisha, a 19 year old psych major at indiana university wa on her way to becoming a famil counselor. >> her goal was to be able t

put families back together again. >> then, in march of 1993, donna and gary received th late nine phone call that ever family dreads, a cop fro indiana was on the line. >> he says that do you kno where trisha is? >> in my heart, i knew tha something was drasticall wrong. >> she had walked to an of campus supermarket and never returned to her dorm more than 25 years later, he parents are still waiting. >> we have no answers. and somebody out there, that i where somebody is, >> trisha wasn't the prosecuto of the beaumont case, but he was deeply moved by he parents. >> that's what got to, mat they knew about the facts of the case, and the family, and had read it, and i read all th newspaper articles and the accounts of them askin for help >> beaumont fell certain tha suspected serial killer, larry

hall, was responsible. not only did hall live 2 minutes from indiana he had been identified chasing to coeds there just a week after tricia went missing. so in the summer of 1995, month after convicting hall fo jesse roach's murder they had the search for trisha it was in those same indiana backwoods where hall had tol indiana authorities that he ha killed and buried trisha >> i wanted to feel like i did everything i could to see if w could find her body. >> but after two days, searching in sweltering heat and humidity, the body did not turn up. >> does it mean it wasn' there. >> then, beaumont decided to try something completely different. >> i came up with the idea o putting somebody in the prison cell to see if we could get hi to tell us what happened t trisha >> he thought you were crazy >> yeah most people thought was crazy but i would able t

convince them i was not. >> enter jimmy keene, the drug dealer beaumont had just convicted and sent to a lo security prison. >> why did he stick out in you mind >> because i knew he was a con man. he was smart if anybody could pull it off he would be the one to pull it off. >> he was trained and mall shots, he was like you can g into a dangerous advisor meant and protect yourself there >> in return, beaumont offered jimmy freedom. but first, he would have t exact more than a confession >> i told him, unless he w found the body no credit. nobody, you did nothing. >> jimmy was skeptical, he was a drug dealer, not a crimina profiler and he knew that this was mission impossible he said no but then, fate intervened. jimmy's dad suffered a stroke. weeks later, frail and sickly. he came to visit jimmy >> my dad was in a wheelchair. this is big jim. the guy that had been super ma

to me my entire life we cried to the window to each other. and we talked, and he did no know about the offer nobody knew about it >> jimmy now realize that he had a onetime only opportunity to fix the mess that he ha made for himself and get out, while his dad was still alive. >> as soon as we were done wit a visit, i called my lawyer an said tell beaumont i will take him up on his offer. >> the mission was on. so on august 3rd, 1998, federa marshals escorted jimmy into the psychiatric prison >> once they stepped out the door, i was on my own. >> jimmy's cover story was tha he was a convicted weapons runner who's 40 years center, push hi over the edge. and landed him in the same prison a psych prison filled with killers. his one, inside contact. the chief psychiatry us, could not protect him. nor could his outside lifeline female fbi agent who visited a his girlfriend

to monitor his progress. >> >> i did have ida had a hotline a hotline to her too so if for, two and one is i ge caught kind of data to in difficult asian, i could get a hold situation i could get o her. a hold of her and the deal i the deal was that i had it was they under had me in 24 hours. 24 hours >> after back >> then i back >> that's what you thought? >> that's what i thought >> when cleans mission began it was all about him his shot at freedom, he had few feelings if any abou tricia reitler for her family. all you want i was getting i out of tricia location in soon as possible they, one breakfast in the mes hall jimmy zeroed in on larry hall. >> i was way with my tray, and i look, over and there he is 20 to 25 feet away from me setting all by himself if i look a magnet was compelling him to come to me finally i bumped holders wit him on purpose >> jim a swanky was a brand-ne invite needing directions to the library, hall obliged. >> i kind of stopped on th shoulder i, said thank a lot. i appreciate that from a coo guy like you

>> after, that the occasionall talked, but the next up came when jimmy was invited to join halls a breakfast club >> which in the prison syste is a big thing of who you ar invited to have your breakfast with >> keane thought he was making progress but then presen politics got in the way. >> i left out of the trial hal when warning and a few reall big muscular guys come up to me said, hey, the old mount talking right now. right now he want to talk to you! >> the old man was celebrity mafioso of instant about shenzhen gone to, also known a the odd father who used to wander around new york cit with this bathrobe pretendin to be nuts >> he goes, hey boy, what' wrong with you what's wrong with you? how you hang around all thos baby killers there for he says, you go and hang out around with us from now on he says maybe someone comes up to and put a knife and you'r back [laughter] you know he'd be at my cell in th morning. jimmy, get up, get up! we're gonna play some mask

>> what about? breakfast >> we're gonna g play back basketball first and then play breakfast. you have >> it's all very nice but you find out a prison. >> exactly >> taking up jimmy's valuabl time making it harder to eve talk to hall but then, he learned hall' favorite show was america' most wanted. so it won saturday night in th tv room, jim it would make a daring move, putting his bod on the line just again larry's trust. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> coming up jimmy's new best friend shares a nightmare. >> it is probably the hardes thing i've ever done in my lif to listen to this kind of stuff, and i'll just rip him apart. >> when dateline continues ♪ ♪ ♪ make a video of yourself... before all this happens. (announcer) you can quit. for free help, call 1-800-quit-now there's nothing like volunteering at the fire department.

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about to share here again is lester holt wher the inside man >> quite a fall of 1998, after several months in missouri's toughest federal prison, jimmy keene could have won a populated contest. he charmed everyone. just in beaumont knew he would he even won over some convex with his lending library o pornographic magazines and he managed to play gifts that chat them off action by day, while circling his prey suspected serial killer larr hall with one on wall both irons at night >> we talk about a lot o normal things, hung out, mad him feel like i was wanting to be his friends >> but it wasn't fast enough for keene who figure someone might recognize him and blow his cover. >> if you went by the fb cyclical terms, i was pretty much staying right on pace, bu from my point of view of being in this place, it was starting

to get a very hard >> on the outside, the mission mastermind larry beaumont ca only sit and wait for a second hand it was on how this craz game of his was going. >> now, where you pacing the floor is waiting for updates during all of us >> i don't know if i place the floors, but i was eager to get updates. i had information that was starting to trust him. they were talking, that kind o thing. >> but belmont at a police n idea that our breakthrough moment had arrived it was a saturday night, keene and haul were in the prisons t room watching america's most wanted again >> and here comes this big prisoner he's a big muscular buckeye. and he walked over the tv an turn the channel and all of that me, and, goe low quietly, moms under hi breath, says hey, that's not right. i was watching that. i thought, you know what this is a prime opportunity fo me >> jimmy, a martial arts exper what continued working out i prison was ready for thi

moment he got up and change the channel back >> he jumped up and he's slobbering all over the place. you turn the channel again i'l repeat dab head off! don't take that down tv! and he's going all crazy, an stuff, you turn the channe suspect down and i just look at him and i turned the tv on again he jumped up and start cutting edge me, and then i finall threw away a particular caus we're to hand that i know wa going to send him off. as soon as i did, he took th wild hate maker swing at me an i come over with an uppercut now, jim kicks him through three rows of chairs and jumpe on him and i beat him to a pulp >> hall had a ringside view saturday night a main event. afterwards, he staunchly defended jimmy as they retaliate or, not th instigator, one person officials interviewe eyewitnesses about the tv room brawl. >> your larry hall's new hero? >> yeah, i became his new best friend and hero to >> jim you could sense that' heroes had brought him eve closer to hall, and now he was ready to make a bold move.

and the prison library, jimmy figured out a strategy to draw haul out on trisha trici reitler. >> i notice he was getting his hometown newspaper and that wa really important eventually fo me to start cracking into hi psyche >> even the goal was trici somebody, jimmy time to as about something already public knowledge. halls conviction in the jessie roach case jimmy faith that his mothe lived in a while bought an read about jesse store case an other stories involving hall >> she gets on if they wer from the hometown where you're from and i saw all those newspape stories says that have kille multiple women >> that was a big risk, though >> it was all a big risk and i said, larry, i don't car what you're in for, but be honest with me that's all just tell me what happened that i don't want to be a friend of matter what. and i said, i've had girls d me wrong life in my life and somehow girls can get unde your skin and how that could b bothersome to you. jimmy said - >> he pressed all about jess roach, and that last hall bega

to open up recalling that september day i 1993 >> he was driving back a backcountry route and sa walking in our bicycle >> paul then told jimmy exactl how abducted and killed jesse. >> you must have been revolted >> oh, gosh, leicester i probably the hardest thing i'v ever done in my life to have t sit there and pretend to be hi friend, to listen to this kind of stuff, and i'll just rip hi apart. but i knew what the missio involved i know it was at stake for me, i know it was at stake for the peoples families you know, there were still trying to find their daughters >> a major transformation wa taking place jimmy was lying to care abou more than just himself and now, he was determined t squeeze the most crucial confession out of larry hall and not just for himself before the family of trici reitler. >> i started thinking, i don't know where this is still going to lead, how long this is goin to take, but something is no happening.

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hall had described in detail gruesome way, how you murder jesse roach. >> i've open that door and he' feeling that he can trust me enough now >> but when i thought he neede to wait a bit before going for the goal line. >> how did you roach trici reitler? >> right, i had to slowly keep up rotting because i didn' want to think i was piling on >> so we carefully plotte is next. most days, later he thought th time was right, he tried tha hometown of play-by-play again >> as, that you, know th newspaper say that you kille this girl from the college ove harris's what happened? there >> jimmy couldn't be sur how he would react, that's way too, blind to direct no, it was all clicking. according to jimmy, hall began to open up about tricia an that he drove his that right u to her that day he saw her outside school >> he said that he tried t kiss her when he, did she started fighting very violently. such it was a very strong girl and she fought stronger than anybody had ever fought before

>> and idiot minute? >> he said that he had kille her and i knew that he had don it again and these are his words, tha he knew he had done it again and he said he went way out an there was a very her way out o the woods. >> hall gave a general locatio for tricia his body near a river and indiana. but jimmy needed more specific information. luckily, he seemed to stumbl into it a few minutes late when he spotted hall inside th prison which up. i wish they could area >> there's nobody at the door, no guys or anything. and i was in there another came up from behind a, he had all days a different little statues lined up. ten or 15 of them, maybe i couldn't tell what they were at first as i got closer, i know is h had a big map laid out hey joe on that map unfolded that thing up really fast an slide it off the side of the table. and i go, what are these thing anyway >> he says, these are thes little falcons in a, they watc over the dead, jimmy says, they do. >> and i look like >> a good sized space.

>> jimmie had a strong feeling that the halls would carve the falcons and the map wher journal keeping by a seria killer >> that map had a little red dots all over its of illinois, indiana, and wisconsin you look down at this map an you can see all of those littl spots on burial spots, this is where he's got somebody. >> all those months of dangerous, painstaking work ha paid off jimmy had cracked the case mission accomplished >> once you see the map, the falcons, you want to tell th fbi about it, right? >> i did, i went to the hotlin i had for the fbi girl i called i got some type of voice recording and it was after hours. >> so jimmy left a message for his fbi contact to come get him, the map, and the falcons his freedom and the answers to tricia his parents prayers wer now just hours away. >> i was elated! i felt i wrap this up. >> you're expecting the troops to come marching in? >> expecting the troops to com

marching in. and it didn't quite work tha way. >> what he couldn't know wha is fbi contact didn't get hi voice mail and he's won inside contact, the chief psychiatrist, was on vacation >> then you got a little ful of yourself, didn't? you >> i did i went back to my, shall i was happy. and i thought, you know what 24 hours they said they'll have me ou of here. i've got what they need. this is it so i went cross to the cel over there >> impulsively, jimmy decide he just couldn't leave priso without giving his fake friend a piece of his mind. >> they repulsive-ness i fel about him throughout the whole time i had to say behind being his friend and disdain, an this like i had for him, that thought it was good for me t unload on him and tell him wha i really thought of him, and who he really was. i, said you know, i'm going to be going home tomorrow, larry. and i said, your crazy killer. and i started calling hi everything you can think of. >> with, that jimmy returned t his cell and waited to b

released >> you're going home the nex day, you think and then take another turn >> but 5:30 in the morning, hear some little lady in a white doctor smoke come walkin in >> it was called psychologist, and she was a furious that jimmy had blasted her patient, turning him into an emotiona wreck. >> she told the guards, grab and take him and throw him i the hall >> so they put me in the hol and put me out there and i'm not really worried, an so what. fbi's going to be here it's only 24 hours, they'l have me out of here. >> but morning turned into afternoon into a bank. and the cavalry still hadn't arrived. this was a hard time at it hardest. >> you can see if it's day o night because you're in th whole. but you can tell it what tim of the day or night's but what meals coming through the doo slots. next thing you know, here's, breakfast, lunch and dinner. next to you know here's coming breakfast again, here's coming live and i like where are these guys? my thoughts were, they did m wrong. they got what they needed, the got the info and they pulled the rug out from under me.

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snuck an informant jimmy keene in a springfield present a 1998 he just didn't expect to los him there. >> because of your radar >> yeah, disappeared, a couple weeks we don't know what happened we were trying to find out and kind of getting frantic. >> two weeks later, only after keene psychiatrist returne from vacation today finall find jimmy >> i know the fbi was there. and she kept apologizing, kept saying i'm really sorry! you know, something happened with the massive >> at last, investigators go to search the wood shop an halls sell but by then, the map and the falcons items jimmy believed could lead to trisha were gone >> what were you thinkin telling larry hall, you're out of here, and dressing him down >> people probably wouldn' understand the mountin pressure that kettles are read to boil over anytime you know it just felt good to unload on the guy. >> the problem, as i say, it

even loaded on, you know you'r against a, but nobody has that map. >> right i'm disappointed i didn't wait another day or two, at least i should've waited a few mor days i wish i could've done more fo them but i did all i could do and i feel that in my being, i did all i could do >> meantime, the people wh would benefit the most from it excess omission, tricia' parents only learned about the secret operation ten years later in 2008, when the stor came out in a playboy magazine article. the right layers are thankfu for jim's courage and th corroborating details he sai he got from the home but he fears that he blew hi cover before finding other daughter >> why would you have been s close? >> yes >> and then give it up like yo did? >> i try not to dwell on tha at all because it at me an it's very hard to deal with it that he was that close >> jesse roach's parents fin

consolation and that jesse was the victim who tripped up hall >> if something good could possibly come out of losin jesse, it's the fact that he's in prison and he will never ge released >> paul remains in federal prison with no possibility o parole he sent made more murder confessions to reporters and investigators. >> i sincerely believe tha there are young girls out ther somewhere who are alive toda because larry hall is in prison >> do you think he had kille before >> i think he did kill befor and i think it would kil again. >> jimmy did tell beaumont tha hall had killed again, but there was no documentation it was just jimmy's word so to be sure, the prosecuto made him take a lie detector test, and jimmy passed wit flying colors! >> he was telling us the truth so, the bottom line is we have further information that larry

was responsible for tricia >> a grateful beaumont decid to war with him for full credi for his brave undercover work, releasing him from prison an scrubbing his criminal recor clean. >> from his perspective, h expected to get nothing. but from my perspective, i mea of course he spent time in the loony bandwidth this guy, an got through this whole process >> for 15 years, jimmy had bee the only one to see thos falcons that paul sent watch over the dead. >> the promise that they wer forgotten, they disappeared, s we don't know what happened to them >> you've never seen the falcons? >> now >> i'll show you a picture that's part of the falcons >> dateline took pictures of a falcon when we met larry hall' twin brother he said larry carved a falco in a way trump at th springfield prison, and then mailed it to their mother. i showed a photo of that ballo into both beaumont and jimmy what i like for you to see tha after all these years? >> well, it's definitely bizarre. but it's also reassuring to me

leicester, and i'll tell you why. now, these falcons backs everything i've said yes, that's exactly what i looked like. >> after becoming a free man i 1999, jim i gotta spend five more years with a father h idolized before big jim passed away and you try to make the most o his incredible opportunity >> he sees the hall experience as something that gave him a second chance at life. >> when we last met with jimmy he had done well in real estate, and co-written a book with author halal 11 in with th devil, which tells jimmy's compelling story of redemption he says he also had severa hollywood projects in the work most notably, the movie versio of his book. but jimmy is especially prou that is booker re-energize tha some cold case investigations. several targeting hall i

indiana and wisconsin. at least one near our civil wa reenactment site investigators dug up locations where hala spent time over the years, and found articles of women's clothing and a bel modified with wooden handles all sent out for dna testing but cold case detectives following fresh leaves still haven't developed enough evidence to bring charges. >> i did a good deed, and i di a lot of good things, an that's where i feel th redemption come to me. i've done something good for the things that i did wrong. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin thank you for watching ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, welcome to morning joe