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369 - Larry Hall: Serial Killer or "Wannabe"?

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

Is Larry Hall, currently incarcerated in federal prison on a charge of kidnapping for the purposes of sexual gratification, one of America's most prolific serial killers? Or a serial confessor to murder? A, as some local police who initially interrogated him believed, a wannabe? The true story behind the Apple+ TV series, Black Bird.

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0:00.0

When Jimmy Keane in his early thirties was thrown into prison for 10 years on charges of drug dealing and weapons possession and

0:06.8

Lost all of his possessions. He thought that his life was over

0:10.5

Jimmy had been a big name in the Chicago area drug scene beginning in high school when he started selling marijuana to rich kids

0:16.4

So he could keep up with their lifestyle a poor student who played multiple varsity sports and played them very well

0:21.8

Jimmy was popular, but he wanted more than that. He wanted to be the man driving expensive cars wearing expensive clothes all that

0:30.0

And he turned to a life of crime to get that

0:32.8

A life of crime that turned out to be very profitable soon the young man was pulling in hundreds of thousands of tax-free dollars a year

0:38.9

Rubbing shoulders with celebrities and the children of politicians and anyone who wanted to get their hands on some of his product

0:45.3

Jimmy would later claim that he was always searching for a way out though

0:48.6

But that none of his legitimate ventures seemed to work out as well as drug dealing

0:53.1

Crime paid until it didn't

0:55.7

In 1996 Jimmy was arrested by the FBI and the DEA prior to a sentencing

1:01.0

King refused and declined any cooperating deals that would require him to act as an informant against anyone

1:07.2

believing in honor among steves

1:10.0

And that belief would bite him in the ass instead of being sentenced to a couple years as he was expecting

1:15.4

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a federal prosecutor Larry Beaumont

1:20.1

Jimmy felt like he'd been fucked

1:22.2

But then the FBI realized that they could use him

1:24.8

They had a suspected serial killer in prison in Indiana native named Larry Hall

1:29.6

Larry who appeared to most of the world as a mild manner janitor and civil war enthusiast

1:34.8

Was suspected of killing up to 40 women some sources now say up to 50

1:39.5

Including a college student named Trisha rightler whose body has never been found

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