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The missing 15-year-olds remains were found in 1993.
Though Hall admitted that he stopped and spoke to the young girls, he denied any wrongdoing.
At the station, police showed Hall a photo of Roach.
He immediately flinched, Miller recalled to CNN in 2011.
And he told me he didnt think he’d ever seen that girl.
Hall refused a polygraph, and there were no notes or recordings of the interrogation.
Instead, an FBI agent wrote out a narrative statement and asked Hall to sign it.
Whats more, he claimed hed abducted several other girls but couldnt remember which ones hed hurt.
Hall was immediately booked into the Grant County Jail in the early hours of November 16, 1994.
The next day, however, he recanted his confession.
Why I was just tellin you about my dreams.
That didn’t really happen, Hall reportedly told Miller.
Though his team moved to suppress the confession as evidence, the judge denied the request.
During his second appeal attempt in 1999, Hall offered theories aboutwho really killed Roach.
The court ruled that there was insufficient evidence of the trustworthiness of the statements to justify admission.
Meanwhile, the case of Roachs kidnapping and death is considered closed.
This article was originally published onJuly 29, 2022
