Larry Hall is considered to be one of the most prolific serial killers in US history. As per reports, Hall was known for committing several crimes during his teenage years, including vandalism. In 1993, after authorities discovered the remains of Jessica Roach, an investigation was initiated that led to the discovery of some startling information.
According to Newsweek, the authorities started suspecting Larry Hall after several young women notified them that he stalked them. The claims made by women surfaced after the disappearance of Roach, a 15-year-old girl, near her Georgetown home. Almost six weeks later, authorities found her remains near Perrysville, Indiana. After discovering her remains, the police launched an investigation to find the culprit.
The outlet also reported that the authorities found many suspicious things in Hall’s vehicle, including a knife and a missing poster of another woman named Tricia Reitler. As per CNN, after the police brought Hall for interrogation, he eventually confessed to kidnapping Roach.
In 1995, the jury found Larry Hall guilty of the kidnapping of Jessica Roach. Subsequently, the court sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. As per the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Hall is currently serving his sentence at the FCI Butner Medium II. Although his conviction gave closure to the Roach family, the investigators wanted to give a similar kind of closure to the Reitler family. So, they stitched a plan to get a confession out of Hall.
Larry Hall murder case explored
When Larry Hall was being interrogated, he told the investigators how he abducted the young woman and killed her. CNN reports that the culprit moved away his face from seeing the picture before confessing to his crime. Citing the investigators, the outlet noted, “He [Hall] immediately flinched. He turned to his right and put his hand up over his face like he didn’t want to see the picture. And he told me he didn’t think he’d ever seen that girl.”
He also admitted to having sexually assaulted her before strangling her from behind. “I laid her up against a tree and put a belt around her neck and she stopped breathing,” the investigators said. Shockingly, Hall also said that he hurt other women, but can’t remember them because he picked up “several girls in other areas.”
During the same interrogation, Hall also revealed that he picked up a girl near the campus of Indiana Wesleyan University and killed her after raping her. When the investigators showed him a picture of Tricia Reitler, he admitted that it was her, per CNN. Although he recanted his confession the next time he met the investigators, investigators wanted a confession in the Reitler case and used an informant, Jimmy Keene, to finish the task.
As per CNN, Keene started earning Hall’s trust, and one day, Hall admitted to killing Reitler. However, he never told him where the body was. Keene also revealed that Hall had a map and carved wooden falcons on it. He said, “It was a map with red dots over Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. And he covered it up really fast.”
Hall recanted most of his confessions
Keene told everything to the authorities and confronted Larry Hall about the alleged murders. The former ended up in solitary confinement for his actions. Shockingly, his information about the map never reached the police. When he came out of solitary confinement, the maps and falcons were gone. As per Newsweek, Larry Hall confessed to his involvement in 15 murders but went on to recant his confessions.
The Larry Hall case was featured in the Apple TV+ series Black Bird, in which Paul Walter Hauser played Larry Hall and Taron Egerton portrayed Jimmy Keene.
