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Reitler, Tricia L. March 29,1993; Indiana 19 YO
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Tricia Lynn Reitler


Left: Reitler, circa 1993
Right: Age-progression at age 21 (circa 1995)


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: March 29, 1993 from Marion, Indiana
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: February 9, 1974
Age: 19 years old
Height and Weight: 5'3, 105 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair, blue eyes.


Details of Disappearance

Reitler was a freshman at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana in 1993. She was last seen at approximately 8:00 p.m. on March 29, 1993. Reitler walked to Marsh Supermarket, which was approximately one-half mile from the university's campus. Reitler purchased a soda and left the store, intent on returning to her dormitory in Bowman Hall. She never made it there and has never been seen or heard from again.
Reitler's bloodstained jeans, shirt and shoes were discovered in a field near Seybold Pool and Center Elementary School, which is located between Marsh's Supermarket and the campus. Investigators said that 6 to 7 unidentified people were playing basketball in the Center School playground adjacent to the pool at the time Reitler disappeared, but none of the possible witnesses have come forward with information regarding her case. Authorities believe that Reitler was taken against her will while walking back to campus. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance.

Donald W. Grenier was considered a possible suspect in Reitler's case at one time. Grenier was arrested in 1999 and charged with the abduction and molestation of a young girl from the Marion area. His home was searched for evidence connecting him to Reitler's case and the 1987 Indiana disappearance of Wendy Felton, which seemed to share common traits. Nothing was discovered in the search and Grenier has since been cleared of involvement in both Reitler and Felton's cases. Grenier has always maintained his innocence in both cases.

Tony R. Searcy, a habitual criminal offender, has long been considered a possible suspect in Reitler's case. He has denied all involvement and authorities have never arrested Searcy in connection with Reitler's disappearance.

Another possible suspect emerged when authorities discovered materials related to Reitler's case in a van owned by Larry D. Hall several months after her 1993 disappearance. Hall resided with his parents in the 300 block of Grant Street in Wabash, Indiana at the time. Investigators found maps, ether, photos and newspaper articles concerning Reitler inside Hall's vehicle. He was arrested in December 1994 and charged with abducting Jessica Roach, a teenager whose remains were discovered in an Indiana cornfield in 1993. Hall reportedly confessed to Reitler's kidnapping and death, but he was never charged in connection with her disappearance due to a lack of evidence. Investigators searched an area of Grant County, Indiana near the Mississenewa Reservoir for Reitler's body. They learned about the location after reading the maps found inside Hall's van. No evidence was discovered at the scene.

Reitler's case remains open and unsolved. She has never been located. Her family lived in Olmstead Township, Ohio at the time she disappeared. The town is southwest of Cleveland, Ohio. Reitler had two younger sisters and a younger brother at time of her disappearance. Her parents believe she is deceased.



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Tricia Lynn Reitler went Missing 15 years ago today..

Mja Date:6/4/2001

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Grant County is only 30 miles away from where Mja was
founded in June 2001 in Miami County where our Indiana
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Miss Reitler became our 10th case..Mja has conducted
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Tricia Lynn Reitler

Missing since March 29, 1993 from Marion, Grant
County, Indiana.

Date Of Birth: February 9, 1974
Age at Time of Disappearance: 19 years old

Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance:5'3;105 lbs.

Distinguishing Characteristics:White female.
Brown hair; blue eyes.

Reitler was a freshman at Indiana Wesleyan University
in Marion,Indiana in 1993.She was last seen at
approximately 8:00 p.m. on March 29, 1993.Reitler
walked to Marsh Supermarket, which was approximately
one-half mile from the university's campus.

Reitler's bloodstained jeans,shirt and shoes were
discovered in a field near Seybold Pool and Center
Elementary School, which is located between Marsh's
Supermarket and the campus.

At least three suspects have been named by police, but
no one has been charged in her disappearance. Foul
play is suspected.
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Tricia Reitler disappearance draws fresh interest from Indiana investigators; inmate questioned
Posted by John Caniglia/Plain Dealer Reporter April 26, 2009 07:00AM

John Kuntz/The Plain Dealer
One of the fliers Garry and Donna Reitler passed out 16 years ago remains stuck on their refrigerator.
OLMSTED FALLS -- Authorities last week questioned a serial-killer suspect in the disappearance of Tricia Reitler, the Olmsted Falls student kidnapped 16 years ago near her dorm at Indiana Wesleyan University.

Investigators from Indianapolis met several hours with Larry Hall at a federal psychiatric prison in North Carolina, where Hall is serving a life sentence for the unrelated kidnapping of a teenager, said Tricia's parents and Indiana police.

"I'm not interested in punishment or retribution," Tricia's mother, Donna, said. "I just want to find out where my daughter is and bring her home. Sixteen years later, we're still sitting by the phone waiting for information. This constant up-and-down is painful. We've never been able to grieve."

Hall, 46, a former janitor, has never been charged in Tricia's disappearance, but he has said three times in the past that he kidnapped her, authorities and Tricia's parents said. Hall never said where he left her body.

Tricia's parents, Garry and Donna, said police told them detectives met with Hall for five hours Tuesday and for most of the day Wednesday. The Reitlers declined to say what Hall told detectives.


John Kuntz/Plain Dealer Reporter
Donna and Garry Reitler of Olmsted Township want to find out what happened to their daughter Tricia. She was kidnapped 16 years ago near her dorm at Indiana Wesleyan University.In the past few months, Indianapolis police, seeking to solve cold murder cases involving young women, have focused on Hall. Tricia's case gained national attention last August, when Playboy magazine reported how Hall told a jailhouse snitch about her death.
Tricia, 19, was attending Indiana Wesleyan in the north-central Indiana city of Marion, studying psychology. She was writing a term paper on March 29, 1993, when she took a break about 8:30 p.m. to walk to a store a half-mile away for a can of Faygo root beer and a Family Circle magazine.

She was abducted on the way back to her dorm. Her jeans and a top were found in a nearby field.

The following March, Hall was stopped in Gas City, Ind., four or five miles from the Indiana Wesleyan campus, and accused of stalking women. Inside his van, officers found rope, a mask and other items used in a "kidnapping kit."

They also found several newspaper articles about Tricia and a sheet of Indiana Wesleyan letterhead with Tricia's name printed on it, the Reitlers said police have told them.

At that time, the couple said, Hall admitted killing Tricia. He told officers from Gas City, the Grant County Sheriff's Department and Marion police that he would show them where he buried her. He led them to an area, but he said he became confused, and nothing was found. Hall was released, and authorities believed him to be a "wannabe" serial killer.

In November 1994, Hall was charged with kidnapping 15-year-old Jessica Roach from her home in Illinois. Her body was found in an Indiana cornfield.

After his arrest for Jessica's murder, Hall signed a confession in which he said he kidnapped both Jessica and Tricia, Marion police Capt. Jay Kay said Friday.

Defense attorneys stressed in court records that Hall was so emotionally troubled that he sought the approval of the officers who interviewed him and had written out the statement for him. The lawyers maintained the admissions were untrue.

A jury convicted Hall of kidnapping Jessica. He was sentenced to life in prison and sent to a psychiatric prison in Springfield, Mo.

Donald Grenier of Indiana was also a suspect

Larry Hall, the most recent focus of the Tricia Reitler kidnapping, is just one suspect police have interviewed since her disappearance in March 1993.

Before Hall, another Indiana man who lived in the city where Reitler went to college had gathered the most interest from police.

Donald Grenier, 54, who is serving 128 years in an Indiana prison for kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl in 1999, lived in Marion, Ind., and spent time near the Marsh grocery store where Tricia went to grab some pop and a magazine during a break from studying at Indiana Wesleyan University.

Garry Reitler, Tricia's father, last week said authorities told him that Grenier has refused to discuss any other cases with authorities.

-- John Caniglia and Jo Ellen Corrigan
Another run at Hall

One of the prosecutors wasn't done with Hall. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence Beaumont, seeking closure for the Reitlers, devised a plan to discover what happened to Tricia.

In 1998, he contacted a convicted drug slinger from suburban Chicago named James Keene. Beaumont had prosecuted Keene on a drug case that fetched Keene 10 years in prison. Beaumont was certain Keene could mesh with Hall.

Beaumont offered Keene a deal: Get Hall to say where Tricia's body was buried, and he could walk out of prison, Beaumont told The Plain Dealer last week.

Keene took the offer and eventually befriended Hall in prison. Several months later, Keene got a confession, but again Hall would not say where Tricia's body was, according to interviews and the story in Playboy.

Beaumont is still frustrated the plan failed.

"The sole purpose of the undercover operation was to find out where Tricia Reitler's body was and to bring some closure for the family," said Beaumont, who is now in private practice.

Hall has since been moved to a Butner, N.C., prison known for its psychological services.

A question that won't go away

Garry and Donna Reitler said they did not learn of Beaumont's scheme until last year. They are impressed he tried to help.

The couple said their faith has carried them through the ordeal. In their home, pictures of their four children are placed around rooms. It is clear the parents are proud of all of them. It is also clear a huge question lingers.

On the refrigerator, amid notes and pictures, is a neon yellow flier that has dominated their lives for 16 years. On the flier is a picture of Tricia, with the word "missing" in large letters.

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Parents of missing women desperately seek answers
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Mary Wegner holds a photograph of her daughter Laurie Depies at her Winneconne home last week. Convicted child kidnapper Larry DeWayne Hall recently confessed to killing the 20-year-old Depies in 1992. Sharon Cekada/The News-Record
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Mary Wegner holds a photograph of her daughter Laurie Depies at her Winneconne home last week. Convicted child kidnapper Larry DeWayne Hall recently confessed to killing the 20-year-old Depies in 1992. Sharon Cekada/The News-Record

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Mary Wegner has been waiting nearly two decades to learn the truth behind the disappearance of her daughter, Laurie Depies.

"I don't know what else we can do but wait," said Wegner, a Winneconne resident who desperately wants to know what happened to her daughter after she disappeared from a Town of Menasha parking lot on Aug. 19, 1992.

It's been an incredibly painful experience for Wegner. And it's very similar to what a family more than 500 miles away has been experiencing.

Garry and Donna Reitler of Olmsted Township, Ohio, have been waiting more than 18 years for their daughter, Tricia, to come home.

"Tricia was kind, caring and loving," Donna Reitler said. "Part of our life has been ripped away from us."

The Reitlers have never met Wegner but they share a bond.

The families are linked — in a tragic way — to self-proclaimed serial killer Larry DeWayne Hall.

Hall, a convicted child kidnapper who is serving a life sentence at a federal prison in North Carolina, has confessed to kidnapping and killing Reitler, 19, and Depies, 20.

But there are extenuating circumstances.

While Hall, 48, of Wabash, Ind., has admitted killing both women, their remains have not been found, despite extensive searches. And Hall, who recently told a reporter that he abducted 39 women before going to prison in 1994, has a well-documented history of recanting confessions.

Still, Hall remains a viable suspect in both the Depies and Reitler cases. He has provided details to authorities that weren't publicly known and bits of evidence found in searches of his van — including newspaper stories and notes — made references to both women. Investigators in both jurisdictions are pursuing leads.

What it has meant for the parents of the missing women is a long, excruciating wait while Hall remains tucked away in prison.

"If it's not Larry Hall, where do we turn?" Garry Reitler said in a phone interview. "Will our hopes of finding Tricia vanish? We've been strung along by Larry Hall for literally 17½ years."

Donna Reitler said not knowing her daughter's fate is extremely difficult.
"Without him showing us where she is, it's hard to get your hopes up," she said. "We've had so many ups and downs. He confesses, then he recants.

"We want to get an answer (about Hall's possible involvement in Tricia's case). We're not out for revenge; not in the least. I just want to find her. I don't want to know the details. We just want to bring her home."

Wegner expressed similar sentiments.

"I don't have any other scenario to hold onto (aside from the possible Hall connection)," she said. "It's a terrible position."
Fading hopes

From the time they learned about Tricia's disappearance on March 29, 1993, the Reitlers feared the worst.

Tricia was attending Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind., when she went missing. The psychology major was working on a term paper when she took a break. She walked to a nearby supermarket to buy a soda and a magazine. She was believed to be on her way back to her dormitory after leaving the store, but never arrived. Her bloodied jeans, shirt and shoes were found in a field between the supermarket and the campus.

Police notified the Reitlers in an early morning phone call that Tricia, the eldest of the couple's four children, was missing. They made the four-hour drive from Olmsted Falls to Marion that morning.

Garry Reitler had a sinking feeling about his daughter that day.

"She was a real strong girl and a real fighter," he said. "When (police) explained the timeframe (of the disappearance), I knew in my heart that she didn't go someplace on her own. I knew she would fight if she was being held."

The Reitlers were devastated when police told them that Tricia's clothing had been discovered.

"Any hope we had that she was OK were dashed at that point," Donna said.

"It solidified our initial feeling that something terrible had happened," Garry said. "We went there with a feeling of hope. And we couldn't get that feeling out of our minds that she was no longer alive.

"Once we were resigned to the fact that someone wasn't holding her, we (focused on) finding her and bringing her home. Eighteen years later, there is still hope that we will find her."
Hall has never been charged in connection with the Reitler case. The former janitor and Civil War re-enactment buff is serving life in prison at a federal facility in Butner, N.C., for the 1993 kidnapping of 15-year-old Jessica Roach of Illinois.

The Reitlers are saddened by the realization that, in the not-too-distant future, Tricia will be missing longer than she was alive.

"We know she is out there somewhere," said Donna Reitler, who operates a cleaning business. "When we dropped her off at college at the beginning, we cried all the way home. To leave her there and say goodbye was really hard. Not being able to bring her home is the hardest part. To have her close by would make all the difference."

Tricia intended to use her psychology degree to "put broken families back together again," her mother recalled.

The last time Garry Reitler, who owns a landscaping business and manages a manufacturing plant near his home, saw his daughter was on a Sunday in March 1993 when he drove her to Wesleyan after spring break.

"I remember saying goodbye and her last words to me were 'Dad, don't go,'" he said.
Shared misery

While the Reitlers aren't acquainted with Wegner or with Mark Depies, they understand their pain.

"I feel their sense of loss," Donna Reitler said. "That's their daughter. She was loved. I certainly can understand their heartache."

"It's just that somebody out there knows, and that's the worst part."

Garry Reitler said the sense of loss for a parent is indescribable.

"There is so much pain involved with losing a child," he said. "You can't imagine what another family is going through."

Wegner knows it's tough for the Reitlers as well.

"It has to be the same situation," she said. "They wait for the police to give them a report. And it doesn't get any easier when it's in the media and constantly being rehashed."

Wegner said her feelings vary about Hall and his alleged involvement in Laurie's disappearance.

"I kind of fluctuate," she said. "When I think of the whole situation and the circumstances, I want to take a baseball bat and just club him one — but to what end? Being angry doesn't bring her home."
She feels a sense of loss for every parent who has a child missing under suspicious circumstances.

"These are human beings and they have families and loved ones," Wegner said. "As parents of missing daughters, we don't have anyplace to put them. It's like they were there, and now they are gone.

"It's not right."
Waiting for answers

The Post-Crescent reported on May 15 that Hall confessed to abducting and killing Depies, who disappeared from a parking lot at an apartment complex in the Town of Menasha on Aug. 19, 1992. The P-C also reported previously that Hall may have been responsible for more than 30 deaths over the years.

In late April and throughout May, authorities conducted a handful of searches at the undisclosed rural site in southern Wisconsin where Hall directed investigators after making admissions last November.

The searches came up empty, but Town of Menasha Police Lt. Michael Krueger said recently that the failed search doesn't mean the probe of Hall is at a standstill. "There's some things that are going on in other parts of the country with other agencies that are developing more rapidly than we are at this point," he said.

Wegner is confident that Krueger is on the right track.

"I put a lot of faith in what Mike Krueger says. He really feels (Hall) is the man," she said. "He knows the case inside and out and he points his finger that way."

Depies' father, Mark Depies, has been waiting nearly two decades to find out what happened to his daughter.

"I've been on this roller coaster ride for years," Depies told Gannett Wisconsin Media after it was reported that Hall had confessed. "There have been other (discounted) people who have confessed. It's 18½, going on 19 years. The worst possible thing that could happen is I could die without an answer."

Gary Miller, a retired Vermillion County (Ill.) investigator who dealt extensively with Hall in the Jessica Roach case, said the impact on the families of Hall's potential victims is overwhelming.

"I hate to use the overused word 'closure,'" he said. "But these people would feel better if they knew for sure. I feel very strongly for these other people who don't know what happened."

Miller said Hall recanted his confession in the Roach case, but he wasn't buying it.

"That's his game," he said. "He portrays this wouldn't-hurt-a-fly, scared-of-his-own shadow person. But when you talk to him, he can go off. If he loses his cool, he goes off."
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A cold case homicide detective from Indiana is the point person for multistate police agencies investigating suspected serial killer Larry DeWayne Hall, who has admitted abducting and killing Laurie Depies of Appleton.

Detective Sgt. David Ellison of the Indianapolis Metro Police Department has talked to Hall, a convicted child kidnapper from Wabash, Ind., periodically over the past two years at the North Carolina prison where Hall is serving a life sentence.


On May 15, The Post-Crescent reported that Town of Menasha Police Lt. Mike Krueger and Special Agent Kim Skorlinski, a major case investigator with the state Justice Department’s Division of Criminal Investigation, elicited admissions from Hall that he abducted and killed Depies on Aug. 19, 1992. In late May, Hall told an Associated Press reporter in a telephone interview that he “picked up 39 women altogether between 1980 and 1994” and an undetermined number of them, Depies included, ended up dead.


Ellison also has assisted other agencies in getting interviews with Hall, including last November’s visit by Krueger and Skorlinski.


“I do believe that it’s possible he’s responsible for a lot of homicides as it relates to women that are missing,” Ellison said.


After interviewing Hall in April 2009, Ellison organized a one-day briefing in the summer of 2009 to share information with 10 police agencies from at least five states about Hall in hopes of bringing unsolved cases to closure for the families of the victims.

Seeking physical evidence

“We don’t have the (physical) evidence yet and we’re desperately working to get to that point,” Ellison said.


Thirteen months before Depies disappeared, Indianapolis police investigated the murder of Michelle Dewey, 20, who was found murdered in her apartment.


Hall did not emerge as a suspect in either the Depies or Dewey cases until his arrest in November 1994.


“When the FBI did their investigation of Larry and collected their evidence, they recovered some documents with our victim’s name (Dewey) on it and some additional specific information related to our victim,” Ellison said.
Similarly, the FBI told Town of Menasha police that the name “Lori” and “Fox River Mall” were found on papers seized from Hall’s vehicle. Based upon information provided by Hall, Krueger said authorities are — or will be — searching for Depies’ remains, but declined to provide further details.


“I don’t want to do anything to jeopardize, for example, locating Laurie’s body,” Ellison said.


He added, “We’re looking to find that one physical piece of evidence in any jurisdiction that says all this is true.”


Indianapolis police created its cold case homicide unit in late 2008 and Ellison said he and another detective began looking closely at Hall again in early 2009.


Hall, who is known to have traveled extensively as a Civil War re-enactor or an enthusiast interested in older vehicles, was convicted in federal court of kidnapping 15-year-old Jessica Roach of Illinois without any direct physical evidence, largely based on admissions he had made and circumstantial evidence.


“We suspect (Hall was) primarily active in the Midwest,” Ellison said. But, he has been in contact with agencies with similar cases from Wyoming and Colorado out west as well as “in Florida, the Carolinas, Tennessee — he’s been all over, really.”

Avoiding detection

Investigators say Hall, a bank janitor familiar with cleaning products and the son of a cemetery grave digger in Wabash, Ind., was especially careful about not leaving behind any physical evidence or forensic residues that could implicate him through DNA analysis — a fastidious approach that may have resulted from his fascination with True Detective magazine stories.


“There’s evidence that supports that he was well aware of forensics and not leaving any forensic residue,” Ellison said. “That would go as far as cleaning mud off wheels. The thought is that if you were in a particular area, certainly soil samples could be compared if it was found underneath your car to an area where maybe a body was found. That’s just one example of how cautious he was.”


Ellison said he is surprised that physical evidence has proven so elusive.


“I’m surprised that none was recovered originally,” he said. “That’s why I said, ‘We don’t know the truth yet.’”


Ellison declined to offer specifics but said authorities have “recovered quite a few things.


“We located one of the first cars (Hall) ever owned,” he said. “That’s been searched for forensics. I’m not going to go into what was recovered. I’d just say that we’re making great progress and it’s still a team effort.”

Investigations take time

Building cases against serial killers takes considerable time and wide-ranging investigative efforts by police and prosecutors.


That was evident in the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee man whose grotesque string of murders between 1978 and 1991 made him one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history.


“We wanted to make it as clean and clear (of a case) as we could,” said Greg O’Meara, a Marquette University law professor who was among the lead prosecutors at Dahmer’s trial in 1992.


Dahmer was convicted of 15 counts of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the gruesome deaths of men and boys, many of whom were lured to his Milwaukee apartment before being raped, tortured, killed and dismembered. The total number of killings was 17, authorities said. Dahmer was sentenced to a series of consecutive life terms, but was killed by a fellow inmate in a Wisconsin prison in 1994.


After Dahmer’s arrest in July 1991, investigators not only checked into missing persons cases in the Milwaukee area, but also expanded their inquiry to missing persons cases throughout the United States, said O’Meara, who was the “second chair” prosecutor to Milwaukee County Dist. Atty. E. Michael McCann.


“We had about 1,000 files of missing persons we went through from all over the country,” O’Meara said. “We had to go through them and try to tie them to Jeffrey Dahmer — and we couldn’t.”


O’Meara said investigators tracked Dahmer’s work records and his statements to police after his arrest in tracking down potential leads for additional victims. But it didn’t yield any victims beyond those in Dahmer’s confession.


“Dahmer was good at disposing of bodies,” O’Meara said. “That’s why it took so long to get him. He had a specific (modus operandi). He needed privacy.”

Hall briefing

Ellison said another briefing among agencies interested in Hall is possible in the near future. He declined to call it a task force.


“Logistically it’s just hard to get everybody together,” he said. “We’re just kind of working together.”


Skorlinski, who retired in December, recalled that he and Krueger had tried to interview Hall about Depies in early 2009 through a prison counselor but were turned down.


Ellison took a different approach.


“Ellison just showed up with another investigator and (Hall’s twin) brother Gary in tow,” Skorlinski said. “Gary was the link, the key I think to his success down there. Gary kind of smoothed the way to get Larry to talk. That was a great move. He’s just been trying to corral all the agencies and get more input. He’s pen palling with Larry and calling him once in a while. He’s the main contact. He did us all a great service.”


The detective said Hall had made “a bunch of admissions” over the years, but has retracted admissions as well.


“All I care about is these victims’ families and getting these bodies back,” Ellison said. “If Larry did it, I’m confident we’re going to get what we need to prove that, if he did it. If he’s involved with somebody else, I’m confident we’ll get there. But it’s going to take a team and it’s not just us here.


“All we want is to get to the truth, get bodies back to their families — if that’s what the truth is — and solve some cases.”
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Olmsted Falls couple deals with the 25th anniversary of their daughter's disappearance
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12:31 PM, Mar 23, 2018

OLMSTED FALLS, Ohio - Donna and Garry Reitler of Olmsted are still hopeful their daughter's 1993 disappearance will be solved.

The Reitler's continue to search for closure nearly 25 years after their 19-year-old daughter Tricia was reported missing from the Indiana Wesleyan University Campus.

They have another difficult anniversary coming up on March 29.

"It's difficult just to know that somebody has the answer that we desperately seek," said Donna Reitler.

"I think that's the hardest thing, cause I never thought we'd be here 25 years later, never."

Marion Indiana police still consider the case an open investigation.

Investigators have followed up on multiple leads, and found Tricia Reitler's clothing on campus property, but an arrest has never been made in the case.

Still, Garry Reitler believes police have done all that they could.

"They've really done as much as they could with the evidence and the leads that they had, and they've really done whatever we asked them to do," said Garry Reitler.

The Reitler's told News 5 a new memorial in Tricia's honor was just unveiled on the Indiana Wesleyan campus.

The Reitler's explained their Christian faith has carried them through the years, and it's still giving them hope for closure in their daughter's disappearance.

"We have an anniversary every year, and it doesn't get any easier," said Garry Reitler.

"So yes, my heart says yes, one day we will solve this, but I guess the longer it goes, the harder that is to hope for."
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