The information of Roach and the maps was enough to allow Keene to walk free, and he was finally allowed out of jail in 1999 – having served just under a year-and-a-half in prison. Still stunned, Jimmy stared at the photos of the girls and listened to Beaumont talk about Hall, barely absorbing the details. Finally he blurted out, “What does this have to do with me?” I did a good deed, and I did a lot of good things," he said in the TV interview. "That's where I feel the redemption comes in. I've done something good for the things that I did wrong." Despite confronting Hall before the police could get the map, Keene was released from prison and his record was scrubbed clean, and he has since become an author. Levin believes that Hall’s relationship with his twin is what’s “absolutely key to understanding him” – how “abandoned” he felt when the brother left the house to live with a girlfriend. “He had lost not just his best friend, but a huge part of his life – almost like a part of himself – and no surprise, a lot of the women killed looked a lot like that first girlfriend the brother had.”

James "Jimmy" Keene has turned to a life of crime until he is arrested as part of a wider sting called Operation Snowplow. Once a promising young football star who was offered several college football scholarships; instead he decided to stay in the Chicago area to be close to his thriving business. He accepted a plea deal he believed to be five years, released with parole after four years. But in the conspiracy he was enhanced with possession of a number of illegally held firearms and was sentenced to ten years without parole. Beaumont later approached Keene with the aforementioned deal which saw him enter the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, to try and get a confession from Hall about his involvement in the disappearance and death of Jessica Roach and the disappearance of Tricia Reitler in 1993. Keene, James (2023). The Chicago Phoenix: Jimmy Keene's Untold Story (Firsted.). Silly Goat Media. ISBN 978-1961181014.The series was announced in January 2021, with Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser cast to star. [6] [7] Ray Liotta would be added to the cast in March, [8] with Greg Kinnear and Sepideh Moafi joining the next month. [9] The six-episode limited series premiered on July 8, 2022, on Apple TV+. [2] [3]

While Jessica Roach's case was closed, the disappearance of 19-year-old Tricia Reitler remained unsolved. To give her parents some semblance of peace, prosecutor Beaumont hatched a plan.

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However, Keene proved popular among the inmates thanks to his natural charm and charisma, becoming the 'go-to' guy for pornography and getting in with the mobsters. He also continued to befriend Hall, getting on his good side by defending him in the TV room when a burly prisoner attempted to change the channel Hall was already watching. Hall had been given a life sentence for the kidnapping of Jessica Roach in 1995. During the investigation he had confessed to killing Roach, Reitler, and two other women but later recanted his statement, saying he was referring to dreams he had been having. Greg Kinnear as Brian Miller, a police detective from Wabash investigating Larry's missing murder victims