Hall, Larry DeWayne - Radford

Larry DeWayne Hall

Information researched and summarized by Brittany Begley, Kasey Frith, & Kari Elliot

Department of Psychology Radford University

Radford, VA 24142-6946

Date Age

Life Event

12/11/1962

08/ 1968

1970'1980's 02/05/1981 08/31/1981 08/06/1985 08/11/1985 03/28/1986

09/061986

12/01/1986 02/24/1987

0

5

1020's 18 18 22 22 23

23

23/24 24

Larry and his twin brother, Gary, were born to Robert Hall and his wife in Wabash, Indiana. They lived their entire lives at Falls Cemetery in Wabash, Indiana, where the twin brothers constantly helped their sexton father dig graves.

Larry and his twin brother Gary started attending West Ward Elementary School. Larry was very anti-social while in school, he had a very low IQ, and was often teased through school for being slower than the other children, also for his nightmares, speech impediment and bedwetting.)

Larry is suspected of committing various acts of arson, vandalism, and petty crimes throughout his home town Alleged victim (still missing): Dean Marie Pyle Peters (14) disappeared from Forest Hills Central Middle School in Grand Rapids Michigan. Hall is believed to be her abductor. Alleged victim (still missing): Debra Jean Cole (WF, 12) was last seen at her home in Lebanon, Indiana. Hall is also a suspect in her disappearance. Alleged victim (still missing): Jennifer Lee Schmidt (WF, 19). Vanished from Purude University. The body of Marcie Fuller Swinford (WF, 21) was found in a wooded area near Honey creek in Southern Vigo County. She had been strangled and sexually mutilated. Alleged victim (still missing): Denise Diane Pflum (WF, 18) disappeared from Connersville, Indiana. Hall was in the area during her disappearance. Alleged victim: Jane Doe was found in southern Illinois. Her body was exhumed in 2002 and identified as a drifter from California named Pholia Mylia Chavez (HF, 28). She had been strangled and was found in a corn field. Her mutilation injuries were similar to other cases in which Larry Hall is a suspect. Alleged victim (still missing): Kimberly Ann Thompson (WF, 25) went missing from Champaign, Illinois. Once again, Hall was in the area during her disappearance. Alleged victim: Linda Weldy (WF, 10) disappears.

03/11/1987 03/17/1987

06/04/1987 09/21/1987 02/14/1988 09/02/1988 09/20/1988 12/16/1988 03/11/1989 06/02/1989 06/26/1989

08/05/1989 10/01/1989 July 1990

07/17/1990

07/20/1990 02/13/1991 03/02/1991

Alleged victim: Diana Jane Braungardt (WF, 18) disappears after finishing her shift at the

24 Venture store in Crystal, Missouri, near the Missouri/Illinois border. Her body was never

found.

Fully-clothed body of Linda Weldy is found in a remote area near her home. Coroner

24

told police Weldy died from manual strangulation shortly after she was abducted. La Porte Police followed over 100 leads in Weldy's abduction and death but were never able

to solve the crime.

Alleged victim: Wendy Louise Felton (WF, 16) disappears from Marion, Indiana. At

first, the Grant County Sheriff's Department assumed she ran away because a suitcase

24 and various clothing items had turned up missing. She disappeared fewer than 25 miles

from Wabash, Indiana (Larry's home town), and located only a few miles away from a

reenactment site that Larry often visited. Felton is still missing.

24 Jane Doe (WF) found in Lincolnville, KS ? police believe Larry Hall was involved.

25 Jane Doe (19) found in Millen, GA - Hall is believed to be her abductor

25

Alleged victim: Paulette Webster (WF, 19) went missing in Chester, Illinois, near a historic landmark that Hall often visited. She is still missing.

25

Alleged victim: Cynthia Louise Carmack (WF, 16) was kidnapped near the Fort Hamilton historical site in Hamilton, OH.

Alleged victim: Jane Doe (20-25) was discovered on the east side of north bound lane of

26 Interstate 59. Approximately 5 miles from Georgia/ Alabama state line. Was mutilated

and strangled to death. Was located near a civil war battle site.

Alleged victim: Aundria Bowman (WF, 15). Was last seen near Holland, Michigan.

26

Larry Hall was considered a suspect because he was known to have cruised the cities and towns along U.S. 31 in Indiana and Michigan looking for victims. Bowman is still

missing.

Alleged victim (still missing): Penny Dawn Lease (WF, 23) was last seen leaving the

26 Omni Fitness Center in Urbana-Champaign, IL. Larry Hall frequently visited college

towns looking for victims

Alleged victim (still missing): Lynn Ann Thompson (WF, 26) was last seen in Prairie

26 Creek, Indiana. Her car was found in the K-Mart parking lot in Terre Haute, IN, near a

reenactment site that Hall regularly visited.

Alleged victim (still missing): Tracy Marie Kroh (WF, 17). Kroh's car was found

Millersburg (PA) Town Square. Her purse was missing but there was no indication of

26 foul play on or around the vehicle. Her ID, National Honor Society card and other parts of

her wallet were found in a remote area along Wiconisco Creek, Washington Township, 9

miles from her home. Case went cold.

26

Alleged victim: Janet Rose Dolgae (WF, 28). Last seen wearing her work shirt and dress pants. Last seen in the 500 block of Geauga Portage Easterly Road. Still missing.

27

Jane Doe (25) found in Madison County, IL. Larry Hall is believed to have been involved.

Alleged victim: Berit Beck (WF, 18). Beck's 1987 GMC van was found by Fond du

Lac, Wisconsin, police parked in the K-Mart parking lot. There was a receipt found from

Walgreens from 11:02 a.m. and her purse was still in the van with her clothes. Police

27 suspected foul play from Beck's disappearance and police wondered how someone could go missing in broad day light. Her body was found Wednesday August 22nd, 1990 by a

farmer in a ditch near Waupin, Wisconsin. She had been gagged with a red bandana.

Authorities believe she was sexual assaulted and strangled.

Alleged victim: Jane Doe, age approximately 25. Cause of death was multiple stab

27 wounds to her neck and torso. Autopsy revealed she had been sexual mutilated. The

killer removed her reproductive organs.

28 Jane Doe (WF) found in Frederick County, Virginia. Larry Hall is a suspect

Alleged victim: Julie Dalton Johnson (WF, 29) drove a light-blue Chevrolet that was

28

found abandoned along Indiana State Rd. 22 near County Road 300E and Howard County. She had taken her four children to a movie Friday evening. Took them home

and tucked them in and disappeared. Husband reported her missing on Saturday. Car

was found less than 35 miles from Wabash.

Alleged victim: Michelle Dewey (WF, 20). Murdered by strangulation and had been cut.

Indianapolis, Indiana. She was sunbathing with her son and was waiting for the sitter.

07/01/1991 28 The sitter called police after seeing blood and son was found in a closet untouched. Hall

visited Indianapolis that day after seeing a sales ad for a 1980 blue dodge van. They think

he spotted Dewey in the yard and then went into her house and murdered her.

Alleged victim. Hall admitted picking up a woman in Clearmont on the west side of

Indianapolis (He remembered the woman did not want to go with him and had to be

07/25/1991 28 forced). Georgia Schreve (37) was last seen at a truck stop in Indianapolis on Thursday.

Truck driver found her body on August 5 in a ditch next to the westbound on ramp of

interstate 74 at Indiana start Rt 25.

09/06/1991

28

Wabash, Indiana. Robert Heath, a friend of Larry and Gary died. He was a WW II Marine who owned a cleaning business.

Alleged victim: Holly Ann Anderson (18). Body was found in a field along CR 1450.

01/09/1992

29

The site was near Perrysville, Indiana. Stabbed at least twice in the chest and had been there for about two hours. She was found less than 2 miles from where Hall confessed he

dumped Jessica Roach.

March 1992 29 Jane Doe found in Fulton County, GA age 25. Hall is a suspect in her disappearance.

06/03/1992

29

Jane Doe (WF) found in Berks County, PA near Lenhartsville. Hall is a suspect in her disappearance.

Alleged victims: Stacey McCall (WF, 18), Suzanne Streeter (WF, 19), and Sherill Levitt

(WF, 47). Springfield, Missouri. The two younger girls had graduated the night before.

06/07/1992 29 Streeter and Levitt lived in Springfield. Witness saw a blonde driving an older Dodge

van later on Sunday. The witness said an unseen male voice told her not to do anything

stupid. Larry Hall had a Dodge van similar to the witness's accounts.

Laurie Depies (WF, 20) was last seen at Foxriver Mall not far from US 41. Laurie parked

her car and disappeared. Her overnight bag and purse were locked in car. Civil War

08/19/1992

29

reenactment was held at Grignon Mansion in Kaukauana, WI three days before her abduction. The mansion is ten miles away from where she vanished and Depsies is

mentioned in Hall's diary. Hall recalled traveling to Wisconsin in his November 15, 1994

confession. Hall confessed to her murder in November, 2010.

Alleged victim: Toni Spicer (WF, 27) left her job at the Hip Hugger in Kokomo, Indiana

08/29/1992

29

at 3:00 a.m. and was found dead in her home at 7:00 a.m. by a babysitter who was dropping off two of Spicer's children. The location is a short drive from where Julie

Johnson disappeared in 1991 and less than 30 miles from Wabash.

Alleged victim (still missing): Bridget Pearl Clodfelter (WF, 27) left her apartment in

09/05/1992

29

Smyrna, GA. for a country bar called the Buckboard to meet her sister and never made it. She has not been heard from since. The route to the bar was heavily wooded and there

are nearby sites of Civil War battles: Dallas and the Battle of Atlanta.

Laura Lynn Thompson (WF, 15) went missing from New Castle, PA. Although Hall was

01/17/1993 30 a potential suspect at one point in time, Joseph Marshall and Sean McDonough were

charged with Thompson's murder.

Alleged victim: Rayna Rison (WF, 16) worked at the Pine Lake Animal Hospital in

LaPorte, Indiana, and was last seen by the receptionist at 6:00 p.m. Her car was found

with the doors locked and the keys in the ignition. Purse was found on front seat and her

hood was up but there were no problems with the car. Her hair barret was found next to

03/26/1993 30 car and her boyfriend's jacket was found six miles from the car. Officers say the jacket

was not there during the search. Fisherman found the body fully-clothed floating near a

pond. Someone tried to conceal the body with branches. She had been strangled but not

sexually assaulted. In 1994 police did a search of Hall's possessions and birth control

was found with R. Rison on it.

Alleged victim: Tricia Lynn Reitler (WF, 19). She was a freshman at Wesleyan

03/29/1993

30

University in Marion, Indiana. She left her dormitory around 8:00 p.m. to shop at a nearby supermarket. She purchased a root beer and a Family Circle magazine and has not

been seen since. Hall confessed to her murder but later recanted the confession.

04/06/1993 09/17/1993 09/19/1993 09/20/1993

11/08/1993 11/09/1993 11/19/1993 12/06/1993 05/29/1994

05/29/1994

05/30/1994

05/31/1994

Stalked victims: Heather Edgett (20) and Kristian Zoeller (19) were coming home from

the store heading back to Wesleyan University where they noticed a brown and tan van

30

following them. They ran back to campus and called a security guard. The security guard, a former police officer, followed the van and pulled Larry Hall over, where Larry

gave an address to a friend's house he was trying to find. However, when Beck contacted

police for help with the address he found it was a fake address.

30 Jane Doe (WF) found in Dekalb County, GA. Hall is a suspect in the murder.

30

Larry Hall attended a Revolutionary War reenactment at Forest Glen Park. (5 miles from Georgetown and less than 20 miles from where Jessica Roach was found)

Alleged victim: Jessica Roach (WF, 15) was last seen alive by her sister Myndi as she

was going to the store in Georgetown, IL. Her sister said she was walking down the road

with her bike. When her sister returned from the store, she called out for Jessica and got

30

no answer, which was very unusual. A bus driver, Darrell Morgan, was passing by as he did every afternoon and saw a bike lying in the middle of the road which he thought was

very unusual because it was a very nice bike. Myndi asked her parents if they had heard

from Jessica and when they said no, they called authorities. The police department

quickly organized a search party, after the disappearance of Holly Ann Anderson

Investigator Miller received a phone call from Vermillion County about the decomposed

30 remains of a girl's body that had been found in a cornfield approximately 15 feet off of

country road 1300 north.

The decomposed body was taken to Dr. Rowland Kohr for a medical examination, and

30 was later positively identified as Jessica Roach. Her autopsy showed she had a broken

jaw, probably caused by someone punching her

30 Larry Hall was in Rochester, Indiana for a Civil War reenactment.

31 Jane Doe (WF) found in Centreville, Fairfax County, VA. Hall is a suspect in the murder.

Stalked victim: Amy Baker was out rollerblading when she noticed a brown and tan van

passing by her numerous times. It got closer and much slower each time it passed. She

saw a motorist whom she knew and stopped the car and told them if they didn't hear from

31 her in 45 minutes to contact her parents and have them call the police with the

description. She was near the spot that Jessica Roach's body was found. She also was

skating near where Holly Ann Anderson was found. Baker remembered the license plate

number 85B3752 which was registered to Larry Hall.

Stalked victim: Abby Mariage (13) and Kaylen Hoskins (15) were riding their bikes

when they noticed a tan van with brown stripes following closely behind them. The girls

cut through an alley to avoid the van to go to Kaylen's house. Abby called her

31

grandmother when at Kaylen's house who called the police. Abby's parents went out looking for the van, and when they found the van, the driver turned off his lights because

he knew they were watching. The van tried to escape, but he got stopped at a red light.

Abby's mother called the police and gave them the license plate which was registered to

Larry Hall.

Officer Neil Pence stopped Larry Hall after he had driven past some girls several times.

While searching Larry's van, he noticed some unusual items such as a spray can of

starting fluid, a cotton mask, and cotton balls, a plastic tar, some knives and a length of

31 rope. The officers often found newspaper articles about Tricia Reitler and a piece of

Indiana Wesleyan University stationary with Reitler's name printed on it. Hall was

arrested by police and confessed to killing Tricia Reitler. However he was later released

as a wannabe serial killer after failing to find the place where he told police he buried her.

Stalked victims: Ashley Davis, Tisha Moore, Danielle Marshall, and Melissa Selleck

were walking in Wabash City Park when they noticed a brown and tan van driving next to

them. The driver asked them if they wanted to go for a ride. The girls got scared and ran

31

to Ashley's' house and her mother yelled at the man as he was driving off. Melissa Selleck told police after the incident that the man with the dark hair and a beard had tried

two other times to coax her into his van. Her father went looking for the van and found

the same van which was registered to Larry Hall. Police searched a barn that Hall had

been using to work on his vehicles. They found straps suspended in the barn that were

06/30/1994 07/15/1994 07/24/1994 08/08/1994 08/21/1994 10/09/1994 10/22/1994 10/26/1994 10/28/1994 11/02/1994

thought to have been used as restraints.

Alleged victim (Still missing) In Chattanooga, TN, Donda Renea Martino (WF, 32) was

talking with her sister when she said she was going to run to the store, and told her she'd

31

call her back when she returned. No ones heard from her since. The next day there was a family birthday party and Dondra never showed which they knew something was wrong.

Her husband said he hadn't seen her since was left for the store. There are various civil

war battles in the region.

Alleged victim: Sarah Rae Boehm (WF, 14) was on her way to a friend's house in

Beaver County, PA but she didn't make it. Police first thought she was a runaway

31

however her family and friends knew she wasn't. A hunter found skeletal remains near Deerfield, Ohio at Berlin lake in Portage County. In May of 2001, FBI agents obtained a

DNA sample from Sarah Boehm's mother and submitted the sample for lab testing. In

2003 the remains were identified as Sarah Boehm.

Stalked victims: Natasha Crockett (13) and her sister Nicole (10) were playing with their

cousins across from their home when they noticed a brown and tan colored van parked

across the street. The driver was writing something down. The van pulled up to the girls

31 and asked them if they knew where Woodlawn Street was. When they said no, the man

asked Natasha if they would like to go for a ride. They said no and ran into their home.

The young ladies told their parents about the van, and the van was driving by their house

the parents got the license plate number the van was registered to Larry Hall.

Alleged victim (Still Missing): Shaylene Marie Farrell (WF, 18) left her home in Piqua,

31 Ohio, to go to a Pick n Save grocery store. Her 1981 Chevrolet was found in the parking

lot. She has never been found.

Alleged victim: The nude body of Kathryn Menendez (WF, 17), a rising high-school

senior in Beloit, Ohio, was found by a gas company employee working near the Berlin

Reservoir in nearby Portage County. The autopsy showed she had been raped, tortured,

31 sexually mutilated, and strangled to death. In the November that followed, the remains of

Sarah Boehm were found less than a mile away from where Menendez was dumped.

Less than two months after the killing of Menendez, another girl was found murdered in

Rochester, Indiana with similar mutilation injuries.

Alleged victim: Kerry Ann Smith (20) was found on the north side of the Tippecanoe

River. She was last seen in South Bend, Indiana where she lived. An autopsy revealed

31

Smith had been beaten, strangled, and sexually mutilated. Police speculated on where Smith had been murdered because there was no evidence on the bridge or riverbanks.

The following month, the FBI found a note In Larry's van mentioning Menominee, a

public access area less than one half mile upstream from where Kerry Smith was found.

Stalked victims: Nichole Brucker (14) and Danielle Mullens (14) were visiting a nearby

31

store when a van pulled into the parking lot. The girls took off running as the man followed in the van asking them why they were running and if they wanted a ride. They

called police who found out the driver was Larry Hall.

31

Jane Doe (WF) found in Curtis Township, Alcona County, MI. Hall is a suspect in the murder.

Detective Sergeant Jeff Whitmer of the Wabash City Police Department received a fax

from the Gary Miller at the Vermilion County Sheriff's Department. The message stated

that Miller was interest in discussing two attempted abductions in Georgetown, Illinois.

31

Did Wabash police know a man named Larry Hall? Miller told Whitmer that in both attempted abductions, young girls had identified a town brown van with a license number

of 85B3752. When he ran the plate he found it was registered to Larry Hall. He also told

them about the unsolved murder of Jessica Roach. Whitmer knew Larry Hall and asked if

there were any military reenactments in the area during that time.

Detective Miller arrived in Wabash for an interview with Larry Hall. He was joined by

investigators that were investigating the disappearance of Tricia Reitler. Hall was soft

31 spoken and quiet in his demeanor. Miller noticed that he emitted no outward signs of

disturbed behavior. Miller told Hall he was there because some young girls in

Georgetown, Illinois had reported someone in a van had harassed them. Acting confused,

 ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download