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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 and what happened. >> the grieving families. >> you want to find her, bring her home and you can't. >> and one man's freedom. >> they don't just give out candy and say you're free to go. i went through hell and back. >> early each day, donna reitler greets her daughter tricia. >> i say good morning every morning to this picture. i say "good morning" every
i had a van. hall said he raped and strangled a girl here, too. and 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 sitting on the sidelines waiting for information to come in. >> with little evidence and local police insisting on another suspect, trisha's parents, gary and donna still suffered. >> with each thing that came in the urgency was great. and the heartache was great, too. anticipation and the hope. >> hall's confession met the reitler's 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, i was just telling you about my dreams. that didn't really happen. he said, it was just my dreams.
morning. i look at that and i can hear her say -- "hi, mom!" >> tricia was very kind-hearted and very smart. >> as a child, says father, garry, tricia lit up the room. >> she would just bound into the room, spread her arms apart and say "ta-da!" that type of thing. >> donna and garry brought tricia here to marion, indiana, to attend this small christian college. one spring evening in 1993, tricia left her dorm room for a walk. on march 29th around 8:00 at night, tricia reitler came here to this shopping center. she bought a soda and a magazine and started walking back to campus. but then, she disappeared. >> phone call came 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 tricia lynn reitler was seen at 8:00 on monday night. >> trisha's disappearance rocked
>> 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 and that kidnapping resulted in a death, then under the sentencing guidelines, it's a mandatory life term. >> the jessica roach case was over. but the disappearance of tricia reitler remained unsolved. and her parents, garry reitler and donna, could not stop looking. >> we walked the sides of the roads. the riverbeds. 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 such a horrendous crime to lose your daughter and never find out what the heck happened to her. >> larry beaumont kept looking too.
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 garry reitler. >> as a parent, there's the part that you flutter down and that you want to find her and 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 had 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 imprisonment. he wasn't going anywhere. i mean, you know, 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
and provided clues of where to find her body. >> multiple agencies are looking into him. referencing the unsolved murders. >> 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 levin, it's critical that serial investigations do not stop. two decades after tricia reitler vanished her father, gary, 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 but to confess and let us know where she's buried. >> donna reitler is not as sure.
send a convicted drug dealer, undercover, into a dangerous prison to befriend an alleged serial killer. >> i'm not a serial killer hunter, 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. >> and one man's freedom. >> they 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 reitler greets her daughter tricia. 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. >> tricia was very kind-hearted,
>> there's multiple agencies looking into him, referencing unsolved 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 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's buried. >> donna reitler is not as sure. >> yeah, he confessed. he recanted. he confessed.
tricia's disappearance had remained a mystery for 18 months. >> we were just kind of sitting on the sidelines waiting for information to come in. >> with little evidence, and local police insisting on another suspect, tricia'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 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, i was just telling you about my dreams, that didn't really happen. he said, it was just my dreams. i said, larry, that's not what you said. you said this happened and you didn't like talking about it because you didn't like the things you'd done but you never mentioned it being a dream. >> but he stuck to his new story. larry hall was recanting everything. out of 42 vehicles,
very smart. >> as a child, says father gary, tricia lit up the room. >> she would sometimes just bound into the room, spread her arms apart and say ta-da, you know, that type of thing. >> donna and gary brought tricia here to marion, indiana, to attend this small christian college. one spring evening in 1993, tricia left her dorm room for a walk. on march 29th, around 8:00 at night, tricia reitler came here to this shopping center. she bought a soda and a magazine and started walking back to campus. but then she disappeared. >> phone call came 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 tricia reitler was last seen about 8:00 monday night. >> tricia's disappearance rocked the community and devastated her parents.