by James Keene
especially when DeArmond walked him through the convoluted reasons . . . Ibid., 1024.
In a similar vein, he testified that he actually wanted to be arrested . . . Ibid., 1014.
He went on to claim that he had prepared a script . . . Ibid., 1031.
Hall admitted he was not as eager to talk . . . Ibid., 1114.
When the prosecutor asked where he learned unpublicized information . . . Ibid., 1140.
When Beaumont pointed to a dot on the map . . . Ibid., 1142.
At another point Beaumont asked, “Is it possible . . .” Ibid.
Beaumont argued, “On cross-examination . . .” Ibid., 1341–42.
The jury took fewer than three hours to convict Larry Hall . . . They left the courtroom at 11:25 a.m. and returned at 2:18 p.m. for another look at a video of the cornfield scene taken shortly after Jessica Roach was found. They left the court at 3:28 and then returned thirty-two minutes later with the verdict. Ibid., 1408, 1418–19.
Although Detectives Bender and Kay had been called by the defense . . . Ibid., 838–52, 857–70.
But out of the presence of the jury, Sergeant Darrell Himelick . . . Ibid., 973, 976.
Because nothing else in evidence supported their theory . . . Ibid., 974, 977.
The one way, outside of court, to definitively prove Hall’s guilt . . . Kightlinger, “Officials look for Reitler.”
A month later, Hall was sentenced, and during the hearing . . . United States of America v. Larry D. Hall (CD IL 1995), sentencing hearing transcript at 16.
Judge Baker felt otherwise . . . Ibid., 17.
Baker disclosed a letter he’d received from Jessica’s parents . . . Ibid., 16.
Soon after, Baker sentenced Larry Hall . . . Ibid., 17.
However, the judge did not . . . Ibid., 17–18.
As Gary Miller sat through oral arguments in Chicago . . . Levin, Miller interview.
It was a stinging indictment of Beaumont’s case . . . United States of America v. Larry D. Hall, 93 F.3d 1337 (7th Cir. 1996).
In August 1997, Beaumont retried the case against Hall . . . John O’Brien, “Hall’s 2nd trial opening today,” Champaign News-Gazette, August 18, 1997.
without the problematic testimony of the defendant . . . Associated Press, “Hall defense rests; jury to get case,” Wabash Plain Dealer, August 28, 1997.
with the testimony about false confessions from Professor Ofshe . . . Associated Press, “False confession possible, witness says,” Wabash Plain Dealer, August 27, 1997.
This time the jury took fewer than four hours . . . Associated Press, “Guilty again: Jury convicts Hall in kidnapping case,” Wabash Plain Dealer, August 29, 1997.
When some of the victims’ stories were dredged up again . . . Sharon Dettmer, “Police still searching for Rayna Rison’s killer 10 years later,” South Bend Tribune, March 26, 2003.
Evidence such as Rayna Rison’s birth control pill bottle . . . Levin, Smith, Amones interview.
No doubt the urgency of getting Hall convicted . . . Gannett News Service, “Hall again draws life sentence,” Marion Chronicle-Tribune, December 3, 1997.
Hall’s defense team was once again seeking to get the conviction overturned . . . United States of America v. Larry D. Hall, 165 F.3d 1095 (7th Cir. 1999).
In Wabash, old friends such as fellow reenactor Micheal Thompson and neighbor Bobby Allen . . . Levin, Thompson interview; Levin, Allen interview.
Meanwhile, in Marion, on the fifth anniversary of Tricia Reitler’s disappearance . . . Marc Lazar, “Reitlers revive their search,” Marion Chronicle-Tribune, February 12, 1998.
10. Closure
For example, according to the statement, Larry forced her to undress in the park . . . Hall trial transcript at 179.
On February 23, 1999, Lawrence S. Beaumont . . . United States of America v. James Keene (CD IL 1999), Motion for Reduction of Sentence.
The 35(B) motion to reduce Jimmy’s sentence . . . United States of America v. James Keene (CD IL 1999), Amended Judgment: Minute Order.
His own lie detector business helped put him through law school . . . Levin, Beaumont interview.
When Smith retired five years ago . . . Levin, Smith, Amones interview.
He later became chronically unemployed . . . Levin, Woodward interview; Levin, Thompson interview.
needed treatment for substance abuse . . . Levin, Osborne interview.
After their father, Robert, died in 2001, Gary stayed with their mother . . . Levin, Smith, Amones interview.
But at times Gary was also seen by friends . . . Levin, Woodward interview; Levin, Thompson interview.
“He keeps telling you, ‘I’m not like my brother’ ” . . . Levin, Osborne interview.
None of them articulates this better than psychiatrist Arthur Traugott . . . Hall trial transcript at 1171.
As one counselor points out, it is probably no accident . . . Levin, confidential interview.
But in the eyes of retired Wabash detective Ron Smith . . . Levin, Smith, Amones interview.
In late 2007 Gary Hall dropped by Ron Osborne’s house . . . Levin, Osborne interview.
“I have problems with my memory” . . . Levin, Hall interview.
Set among rolling hills and dairy farms . . . E. A. Torriero, “No fences, no violence, no privacy—Oxford camp lacks cellblocks and offers inmates a walking track, culinary classes,” Chicago Tribune, November 7, 2007, Chicago edition.
A law enforcement officer familiar with Hall’s prison records . . . Levin, confidential interview.
He did not like Oxford at all and attempted suicide there . . . Levin, Hall interview.
when the Seventh Circuit court denied his second appeal . . . Hall second appeal, v. 165.
After the suicide attempt, Hall was sent to the BOP’s hospital in Rochester . . . Levin, Hall interview.
Only eight months later . . . John Caniglia, “Tricia Reitler disappearance draws fresh interest from Indiana investigators; inmate questioned,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 26, 2009.
Instead, he swung back to making the sort of full confession . . . Scott Swan, “Who killed Michelle Dewey?—WTHR,” WTHR.com Eyewitness News, November 23, 2009, http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=11562020.
The police were cold-case detectives . . . Jack Rinehart, “Detectives Pursue New Leads in Cold Case Killing—Indiana News Story—WRTV Indianapolis,” IndyChannel.com, August 25, 2009, http://www.theindychannel.com/news/20552712/detail.html.
She had been strangled . . . Swan, “Who killed Michelle Dewey?”
The 2008 August issue of Playboy . . . Hillel Levin, “The Strange Redemption of James Keene,” Playboy, August 2008.
When they contacted retired Wabash detective Ron . . . Hillel Levin, Ron Smith interview, April 2009.
After briefly meeting with Gary, Larry agreed to speak . . . Swan, “Who killed Michelle Dewey?”
He continued talking with the detectives for five hours . . . Caniglia, “Tricia Reitler disappearance draws fresh interest.”
Gary broke the news about his twin’s confessions . . . Swan, “Who killed Michelle Dewey?”
detectives brought him a map to show them find where . . . Hillel Levin, Garry Reitler interview, April 2009.
As the Indianapolis detectives have worked through the information . . . Ibid.
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who would be executed there two years later . . . Rick Bragg, “McVeigh Dies for Oklahoma City Blast,” New York Times, June 12, 2001.
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Confidential interview, 2008.
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