The
FBI believes that Hall began killing in the early 1980s. Over the subsequent decade, numerous female corpses, some young and unidentified, were discovered and later attributed to Hall due to their bodies being
strangled and sexually mutilated. She was identified on March 10, 1993, through dental records. Her cause of death was
ligature strangulation. Hall is considered a viable suspect because a document bearing Kidder's name was found in his possession after his arrest. • On September 6, 1986, the body of a young woman was found nude, strangled and sexually mutilated a day after her death in a cornfield near
Summerfield,
Illinois. The unidentified woman was referred to by detectives as the "Summerfield Jane Doe," and was buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery under a gravestone that said "Jane Doe: Known Only to God". In 2007, the woman's body was identified as being 26-year-old Eulalia Mylia "Lolly" Chavez after fingerprints from an arrest record matched. After confessing to Chavez' murder to a
St. Louis television reporter via letter, Hall became a suspect. DNA evidence at the crime scene proved to be inconclusive against Hall's DNA. • Linda Lynn Weldy, aged 10, disappeared on February 24, 1987, after she was dropped off by her school bus near her home on McClung Road in
La Porte, Indiana, at about 3:30 pm. Her body was found three weeks later on March 17, along an abandoned railroad track nine miles away from where she was last seen, on County Road 500 South near
Kingsbury. She had been manually strangled. According to investigators, Hall was in the area at that time. • At around 2:00 p.m. on June 4, 1987, 16-year-old Wendy Louise Felton stayed home in
Marion, Indiana, when her older sister drove their parents part-way to an airport for a business trip that afternoon. When her sister returned home at about 5:00 pm, she found Felton was gone, but all of her belongings were left behind in her bedroom. Felton's home was less than twenty-five miles from Wabash, which is where Hall lived at the time and is located only a few miles away from a re-enactment site he often visited. Detectives have not ruled out Hall as a suspect. • 19-year-old Paulette Sue Webster was last seen walking home from a friend's house in
Chester, Illinois, at 11:00 p.m. on September 2, 1988. She has not been seen since. Authorities initially believed she left on her own accord, but
foul play is now suspected in her case. In 2011, Hall sent a letter to author Christopher Hawley Martin, a Wabash native who wrote a book about Hall, in which he claimed responsibility for Webster's murder. Hall claimed Paulette was taken from the main east and west roads through Chester near a
mobile home park. He then claimed he took Paulette to a remote location where she was kept and
sexually assaulted for several hours. Hall either threw her in the
Mississippi River or buried her. Hall wrote, "If I did it, I would have put her in a river or in a field." • On July 1, 1991, Michelle Lee Dewey, a 20-year-old single mother, was found strangled in her second-floor apartment on South Downey Avenue in the Irvington section of
Indianapolis. Her 18-month-old son was in a back bedroom with the door wedged shut; he was unharmed. Hall's twin brother, Gary, claimed that he confessed to killing Dewey. Hall had visited Indianapolis that day after seeing an advertisement for a 1982
Dodge van. Authorities suspect that Hall had spotted Dewey
sunbathing in the backyard. • Laurie Jean Depies, aged 22, was seen entering her grey 1984
Volkswagen at the Fox River Mall in
Grand Chute,
Wisconsin, on August 19, 1992, at approximately 10:00 pm. She apparently arrived at her boyfriend's apartment complex in the 300 block of West Wilson Avenue in
Menasha between approximately 10:15 and 10:30 pm. Depies' boyfriend had been waiting in his apartment with his sister and a friend. They heard her car pull into the lot and went looking for her when she did not arrive at the apartment. They found her locked vehicle in the complex parking lot. The hood was found to have a
Styrofoam soda cup on it, and Depies' purse and overnight bag were still inside. In 2010, Hall, who was first identified as a suspect in Depies' disappearance in 1995, admitted to abducting and murdering her. Investigators searched the area where Hall said he had buried Depies, but they were unable to locate either her body or any other tangible proof of his claim. • 19-year-old Tricia Lynn Reitler was last seen at approximately 8:00 p.m. on March 29, 1993, at
Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion. Reitler walked to
Marsh Supermarket, which was approximately half a mile from the university's campus, and purchased a soda and a magazine before leaving the store, intent on returning to her
dormitory in Bowman Hall. Authorities believe she was abducted during her return journey. Between the store and the university, close to Seybold Pool and Centre Elementary School, Reitler's bloodstained pants, shirt and shoes were found in a field. Investigators found maps,
ether, photos and newspaper articles concerning Reitler inside Hall's vehicle. Hall eventually withdrew his confession to Reitler's murder, and he was never charged in connection with her disappearance. Investigators searched an area of
Grant County near the Mississinewa Reservoir for Reitler's body. Hall led them to the scene, saying he had buried her body there, but no evidence was located. • On September 23, 1993, 15-year-old Jessica Lynn Roach was last seen at approximately 3:30 p.m. riding her bicycle near her home in
Georgetown, Illinois. On November 8, her body was discovered in a cornfield near
Perrysville, Indiana. In early 1994, two 14-year-old
Georgetown girls reported to police they were followed by a man in a van. Within a few days another report was taken in Georgetown by two more teenage girls who were followed while walking home. They were able to get a partial license plate number. Police determined that the vehicle was registered to Hall, who was brought in for questioning in October 1994. After finding evidence in his van connecting him to the disappearance of Roach, and after Hall gave details that only the perpetrator of the crime could have known, he eventually confessed to and was charged with Roach's abduction. He was not, however, charged with her murder because police could not pinpoint where she was killed. He was arrested at his parents' residence in Wabash in December 1994 and found guilty in June 1995. ==Incarceration==