77: Virginia's First "No Body" Conviction - The Murder of Gina Renee Hall

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1980, an eighteen year old college freshman went out for a night of dancing but never made it home. Gina Renee Hall was a beloved daughter and sister and member of a small town community that has never stopped grieving for her and looking for her remains. Gina’s case was the first “no body” conviction in the state of Virginia, but even forty years later, there is an open file and active investigation into the search for her remains. Her family, law enforcement and locals still want to bring Gina home for a proper burial.

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0:00.0	7. Southern Fried True Crime Covers Cases That Are Not Suitable For Young Listeners
0:06.0	And There May Also Be Some Explicit Language Used.
0:09.3	Today's episode involves sexual assault, so I'd like to emphasize listener discretion.
0:18.4	The violent death of a loved one is difficult to accept.
0:22.2	The agony of grief and anger reverberates through the rest of your life.
0:28.0	As there is closure, you can learn to live with a grief.
0:32.4	Justice can help with your anger.
0:35.4	But what if your loved one's body was never found?
0:38.4	How do you move past that?
0:40.7	Especially when you know who did it.
0:43.6	When you know who took that cherished life and cut out a piece of your heart.
0:48.0	Your mind conjures the worst places their remains could be.
0:52.0	It's the final cruelty of the murderer to hide the body and not give the family the
0:56.8	peace of laying their loved one to rest.
1:00.6	And historically, murder cases without a body are notoriously hard to try.
1:06.3	By now, with all the advances we have in forensics, we can often prove a person is dead and
1:12.1	prove who killed them without the body.
1:15.4	But today's episode is a case from 1980.
1:19.2	An 18-year-old college freshman from Virginia named Gina Renee Hall disappeared.
1:25.2	Law enforcement had a suspect within days, but they could not find Gina's body.
1:31.1	There were mountains of circumstantial evidence in Gina's case, including blood and hair
1:35.7	evidence.
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