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and he goes, they do. >> what if someone asked you to risk your life? >> what if i shape get changed? what if i get killed? >> to go undercover. and one of the countrys most 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 being murdered. >> i cant imagine sending my daughter off to school, and never seeing her again. >> and investigators needed health to get a confession. >> ...

Turned in his chair and refused to look at the picture. >> convinced larry hall was hiding something, miller became obsessed with making a case against him. days later, back in illinois, miller turned up a huge lead. he found witnesses who vividly remembered hall from a revolutionary war re-enactment in the georgetown area the very weekend before jessie was abducted. to them, hall stood out for his bushy muttonchops side burns, but also for playing a soldier who was fighting the wrong war. >> he...

>> i flipped the next page, another young dead mutilated pp girl.yo i am thinking whoa, wait a second. nk >> he is probably thinking at this point youre about to charge him with something else? >> yeah, because you know, i had be rough on him in the initial prosecution. im b >> jimmy was in the dark. he had no idea the crazy scheme beaumont had in mind. >> he says jimmy, listen, he goes this is something that we have another person on, he has killed many, many young women, and i personally think...

Chairs and beat him to a pulp. >> hall had a ring side-view of saturday nights main event. afterward, he staunchly defended him as retaliator, not when prison officials interview eyewitnesses about the tv room brawl. you are his best friend? >> yes. i became his new best friend and hero. >> jimmy could sense his heroics brought him closer to hall. he was ready to make a bold move. in the prison library, jimmy figured out a strategy to draw hall out on tricia reitler. >> i noticed he was reading ...

She was staying away by choice. >> the haunting image of a bike tipped over and abandoned terrified all of the investigators and, of course, jessies family. >> i mean, you never lose hope for them not to come in. you still hope, but we knew she wasnt just going to walk away. >> after six weeks, jessies parents worst fears were realized. her body, beaten and sexually violated, was discovered in a corn field. it can never be easy telling a parent their child is dead. >> no, it wasnt, but at least ...

>> tricia had walked to an off-campus super market and never returned to her dorm. now nearly 25 years later, her parents are still waiting. >> we have no answer. that is what eats at me, somebody out there has that answer for us. >> tricia reitler wasnt even prosecutor beaumonts case, but he was deeply moved by her parents. >> that was always a horrible crime to me. i knew about the facts of the case, and i knew about the family. i didnt know the family but read about them, newspaper articles, ...

Seen him near georgetown. >> he came along to the point where he said well, i go to so many re-enactments, i could have been there and dont remember because i go to a lot of them. >> he was giving more ground? >> right, yeah. >> miller sees the opening and kept at it. finally, he said hall came clean and confessed that he abducted, sexually violated, and strangled jessie roach to death. how much detail did he give you about the killing of jessica roach? >> very good detail, what he actually did ...

Every day you get up, are you thinking about this case? >> oh, every day. >> what have i missed? >> exactly. i know this case really shook him from the beginning. he would check all leads that would involve all girls and kind of run them down. >> then in late 1994, millers persistence finally paid off. a man in a van had been reported chasing two teenager girls in jessies hometown of georgetown. miller traced that to larry hall from wabash, indiana, a three hour drive from georgetown. is your he...

Confession, hall gave him a detail that only the killer would know, that jessie was not riding her bike but walking it, a safety precaution the roaches insisted she follow when she was on their narrow road. that was never in the press that she was walking her bike that day. >> right. >> when you heard that, did that give more credence to the story? >> oh, yeah, that just sealed it for me, i knew, i knew that he was the one. >> a jury unanimously agreed. it took just three hours to convict larry ...

Larry beaumont. >> we scooped him up in an operation that i ran, we called it operation snow ploy. >> in court, beaumont showed keene no mercy. >> he was coming at you on all fours? m >> oh, god, he was a bulldog. >> jimmy was convicted and od slapped with a ten-year sentence. >> it was a pretty stiff sentence. i knew he didnt expect ten years in that case. >> your father was in the a e courtroom. >> right. i knew i let him down, probably one of the biggest ways you could let somebody down. he >...