![]() That is Larry Hall’s version of Jessica Roach’s story. Eventually, he marched her out to a tree, tied a pair of belts around her neck, and twisted them with a stick like a tourniquet until she died. Then he knocked her out with a rag soaked in starter fluid, again and again. She was nice, he said, right up until she wasn’t - until he kissed her. She showed interest in his bike, in his “burnsides” (she called them “sideburns,” he laments), and possibly in his cleaning supplies, though it seems likely this was his own delusion. As his “friend” Jimmy Keene sits listening, visibly holding back tears and choking down disgust and sadness - unmistakably so, unless you’re as absorbed in your own world as Larry Hall - Larry reveals how he encountered Jessica as she walked her bike down a country road with a flat tire. This episode of Black Bird tells two stories about her. Jessica Roach was 15 years old when Larry Hall murdered her.
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