Serial Killer: Larry Dewayne Hall

   

   Larry DeWayne Hall was born December 11th,1952 to Robert and Aera Hall. He had a twin brother named Gary. They made their home in the little town of Wabash, Indiana. 

   Robert Hall was a grave digger and cemetery caretaker at Falls Cemetery in Wabash, Indiana. That’s southwest of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The family lived in a small house on the cemetery property. 

   Larry had difficulties from birth and spent some extra time in the hospital as a newborn. He later showed a lack of attachment. He had difficulty making friends and forming and keeping up relationships. His brother Gary tried to help him. Gary hoped to be a positive role model. Larry was often upset with Gary and tried to kill his twin several times. 

   As a young adult, Larry DeWayne Hall was a Civil War and Revolutionary War Reenactment buff. Traveling the Midwest and other states for reenactment events was his hobby. He was on the road a great deal. All that traveling means there are potentially many, many victims. 

   He found work as a janitor after high school and in his free time he traveled to reenactment events and sites of historic interest. 

   It is thought that he began killing in the early 1980’s. 

   He is a suspect in the murder of Linda Lynn Weldy of LaPorte, Indiana in 1987. He was said to be in the area at the time. I wrote about her murder on this blog and made a YouTube video as well. 

   He is also suspected in the abduction and disappearance of Wendy Louise Felton from her home near Gas City, Indiana in June of 1987. She has never been found. I’ve written about her disappearance on this blog and made a YouTube video. 

   

    Tricia Lynn Reitler was a student at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. She disappeared in March of 1993. Tricia has never been located.

   Jessica Lynn Roach was from Georgetown, Illinois. It’s a small town near Danville, Illinois. She was found in Perrysville, Indiana in September of 1993.

   Evidence connecting Hall to Jessica Roach’s murder was found in his van. 

   Hall eventually confessed to 34 murders of women and young girls. But he has since recanted all of those confessions. 

   

   I suspect him in the 1992 murder of Holly Ann Anderson. She lived outside Danville, Illinois in the small town of Catlin. Holly was found January 9th, 1992 just a few farm fields away from where Jessica Roach would be found a year later. 

   Hall’s first murder is thought to have happened in Michigan in 1981. Deanie Peters was at her brother's wrestling match on February 5th, 1981. She went to the restroom at the Forest Hills Central Middle School gym but never came back. Her mother and the entire community searched tirelessly. 

  I doubt that Hall was involved in Deanie Peters disappearance as she was taken from an indoor event. I think Hall’s pattern was to abduct a young woman or girl from the street or a road.  He spotted them when they were outside. 

   Recently in early 2025, a man, James Douglas Frisbie, has claimed that his now deceased friend, Kyle Fate, confessed to him that he murdered Deanie Peters. That investigation is still ongoing. Frisbie has been charged with perjury recently. 

  Deanie Peters has never been found. 

 Larry Dewayne Hall is serving a life sentence in a Federal Penitentiary in North Carolina as I write this in June 2025. 

   If you’re investigating an unsolved murder from this time period.  Check the newspapers from the time in your area. Was there a historical reenactment type event, either Civil War or Revolutionary War related, that coincides with the days surrounding the abduction and murder? It did not necessarily have to be an event. Hall traveled to places of historic interest to him as well. 

   Hall lived in Wabash, Indiana but traveled to many states including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and possibly others.