by James Keene
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Gannett News Service. “Hall: FBI framing me.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, February 4, 1995.
———. “Hall again draws life sentence.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, December 3, 1997.
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———. “Get Up! Whistle Signals Round of Activities.” Springfield (MO) Leader and Press, July 29, 1935.
Cathy Kightlinger. “Probe of Wabash man continues.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, November 19, 1994.
———. “Wabash man may face Illinois grand jury.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, December 13, 1994.
———. “Officials look for Reitler.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, July 1, 1995.
Tammy Kingery. “Parents say hope fading.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, April 11, 1993.
———. “Reitlers to tell their difficult story on TV.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, May 25, 1993.
———. “A Test of Faith.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, March 29, 1994.
———. “Friends remember Tricia.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, March 30, 1994.
———. “Towns wait for word on investigations.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, November 17, 1994.
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Cindy Losure. “Search team looking for volunteers.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, April 3, 1993.
Jennifer McSpadden. “Neighbors express shock, sympathy.” Wabash (IN) Plain Dealer, November 17, 1994.
———. “New trial ordered for Hall.” Wabash (IN) Plain Dealer, August 29, 1996.
Alan Miller. “Hall’s parents talk of ‘kind’ son.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, November 18, 1994.
———. “Agonizing day for the Reitlers.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, November 20, 1994.
Traci Miller. “150 seek clues in disappearance.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, April 18, 1993.
David Nelson. “Missing student makes university nervous, worried.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, April 2, 1993.
———. “IWU in state of vigil until Reitler returns.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, April 3, 1993.
John O’Brien. “Hall’s 2nd trial opening today.” Champaign (IL) News-Gazette, August 18, 1997.
Matt O’Connor. “Noah Robinson Is Found Guilty Again in Retrial—4 High-Ranking El Rukns Also Are Convicted.” Chicago Tribune, September 27, 1996, North Sports Final edition.
———. “Feds say Ryan is greedy, 2-faced—prosecutors tee off in closing arguments.” Chicago Tribune, March 7, 2006, Chicago Final edition.
———. “Ryan gets 6½ years—ex-governor regrets conviction, but doesn’t admit to wrongdoing.” Chicago Tribune, September 7, 2006, Chicago Final edition.
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Selwyn Raab. “With Gotti Away, the Genoveses Succeed the Leaderless Gambinos.” New York Times, September 3, 1995.
———. “John Gotti Dies in Prison at 61; Mafia Boss Relished the Spotlight.” New York Times, June 11, 2002, New York edition, sec. A.
———. “Vincent Gigante, Mafia Leader Who Feigned Insanity, Dies at 77.” New York Times, December 19, 2005, sec. Obituaries.
Linda Renken. “Woman last seen near Reliable Drug store.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, April 4, 1993.
———. “Few clues turn up in search for student.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, April 5, 1993.
———. “Law officers keep noses to grindstone to find missing girl.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, April 6, 1993.
———. “Missing student’s friends still waiting.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, July 4, 1993.
———. “Missing IWU student’s parents return to Ohio.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, April 7, 1994.
Susan Schramm. “Skull found in Marion isn’t of missing student.” Indianapolis Star, March 25, 1994.
Caryn Shinske. “Probe never far from Kay’s mind.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, March 29, 1996.
Katherine Skiba. “Serial killing suspect wrote about Depies.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 20, 1995.
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“Found body not Reitler’s.” Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, November 11, 1993.
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* After the Family Secrets trial, Frank Calabrese did get sentenced to life.
* Eventually Fountain converted to Catholicism and educated himself to the extent where he studied for a master’s degree and provided college professors with critical analysis on research about prison life and solitary confinement. Although some of his restrictions, including the cage, were lifted, he was kept in solitary until he died of a heart attack in 2004 at the age of forty-nine.
* It took a special plane to haul the cocaine dealer to Springfield in 1989, but he died soon after and presented other challenges in getting his corpse back out of his cell.
* Although Newsweek briefly profiles Berkowitz in “The Random Killers,” it does not mention Samhain, so Larry must have read about Son of Sam in other sources.
† Although these notes were entered into evidence, the FBI apparently made little effort to fully decipher them or arrange them in chronological order as is done here.
* As a result of the ticket, Hall then kept the proper registration plates on his van. Otherwise, Gary Miller would have never been able to track him from Georgetown to Wabash.
* Besides the Rayna Rison case, in several other instances local individuals were charged for crimes committed by outside serial killers. Most notably, in 1985, two men, Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez, were sentenced to death for the rape and murder of ten-year-old Jeanine Nicarico in Naperville, Illinois. Their convictions were thrown out, but the local prosecutors tried them again even though Brian Dugan, an imprisoned serial killer, confessed to the crime and DNA evidence bore him out. Finally, in 1995, Cruz was acquitted and charges were dropped against Hernandez. In 2000, then Illinois governor George Ryan gave both men a full pardon and cited their cases when he declared a morat
orium on the state’s death penalty.
* FBI agent Ken Ivan read “spade” as “spode” when he testified on the notes during Hall’s first trial. Given Larry’s experience at Falls Cemetery with his father’s job, it can safely be assumed that he knew that lime is chopped into the earth by a “spade.”
* Judge Wood, who has been mentioned as a candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court, appears to have misread the evidence, confusing Miller’s first interview with Hall in the Wabash City Hall with the session in the Wabash City police department when he actually gave his confession. She also uses DeArmond’s argument instead of the evidence to characterize the nature of Miller’s first interview. None of the other detectives present—even Phil Amones—testified that Miller acted in an unprofessional or coercive manner.
* Actually, the government did produce notes and memorabilia from Hall that related to Reitler as well as eyewitness testimony that Hall had been stalking in the area.
* That cornfield lay only a few miles from where Jimmy grew up in Kankakee.
* In August 2008, Hillel Levin had a phone conversation with Larry Hall that lasted a little more than an hour. Although they arranged to meet in person, the warden of Butner Correctional Center did not permit Levin further contact with him.
* Psychologist Joel Norris writes, “Often serial killers who are not caught eventually kill themselves. This is the final act in a life of utter despair and hopelessness. . . . Most serial killers find a way to turn themselves in before they choose to commit suicide. They accomplish this by becoming too despondent to take the care to conceal their latest crime.”