Black Bird: One Man's Freedom Hides in Another Man's Darkness

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In 1996, charming drug and arms dealer James "Jimmy" Keene, is arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison without bail. I reached out to Jimmy early, confirmed a bunch of stuff from the book, asked for some anecdotal stuff that wasn't in the book. Closing titles reveal that Larry confessed to fifteen murders but later recanted, James died of a heart attack five years after Jimmy's release, and Jimmy went on to have a successful business career while still helping law enforcement profile serial killers. Co-star Ray Liotta, who passed away in May of 2022, was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor as “Big Jim Keene”. Before Larry Hall and the events of Black Bird, Jimmy Keene already had a life that most people couldn’t begin to imagine.

In 2010, Keene released an autobiographical account of his time working as an FBI operative helping to secure the conviction of serial killer Larry Hall. Keene gives a clear and honest account of his life's beginnings, as well as the extraordinary tale of his ascent and descent. The best parts of Black Bird attempt to replicate Mindhunter’s tone, focusing on Hauser’s committed portrayal of Hall as a calm, soft-spoken presence; he’s upsetting, but in a subtle way, and he’s never a melodramatic, Hannibal Lecter-style monster. If the government lost the second appeal, Beaumont would have to try Hall yet again and he might go free.Just a few months into Keene’s sentence, the federal prosecutor who put him behind bars approached him with an offer. They looked at each other through the thick bulletproof glass of the visiting room, and Jimmy says, “We cried like babies. The fact that the crimes he’s accused of are monstrous doesn’t make him some kind of supervillain; instead, he’s depicted as a deeply odd, socially awkward guy who tinkered with cars and grew massive muttonchops to fit in better while taking part in Civil War re-enactments.

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The actual page count will vary based on various factors such your device's screen size and font-size.But back then I discovered a way to put more money in my pocket than the richest kids had—selling drugs. We appreciated how the authors painted both Keene and Hall in a human light, and Keene’s journey is packed with fascinating insights and the promise of redemption. Every major news outlet and many notable journalists, including Newsweek, CNN, and Paula Zahn have interviewed him. Black Bird was nominated for Best Limited Anthology series or Limited Movie Series or Television Film series as well as Best Actor in a limited movie series ( Taron Egerton). After his arrest, some narcotics detectives even asked him to give up damaging information about his father—also named James Keene and known as Big Jim—a popular former ranking officer in the Kankakee police and fire departments who had influential friends in the highest reaches of state and local government.