When Joan Robinson Hill died in 1969, her father was sure foul play was involved, even after multiple autopsies ruled, it was natural causes.

The state ended up charging her husband under a rarely used law, but he was never convicted

after he, too, ended up dead.

Going on 60 years later, people still ask if Joan Hill was murdered and who was behind

John Hill's death.

I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Hello. Hello and welcome to crime lines. I want to say at the start that this is a two-parter,

for the usual reason I do two-parters. I ran out of time. This case is twice as long as my usual episodes. Part two will be out ad-free on Patreon, Apple, and

Supercast as soon as it's done, and then it'll be out for everyone 48 hours after that. You are

not going to have to wait a week or two for it. I really think I can get it done in the next

couple of days. The case we're revisiting today is a case I covered on my old podcast years ago. I get asked

frequently about unsolved cases that I'd like to see solved or want the answer to, and this one

ranks pretty high on my list, so I thought, let's go ahead and revisit it. This is not just a

rerun or re-recorded my old episode, so if you

heard that, this is not the same thing. Anyone who has listened since back then knows that

crime lines is quite a bit different, as I've frankly gotten better at researching and writing.

So this is a full overhaul of that episode plus new information I have, thanks to

newspapers.com. They are continually adding more and more digitized newspapers to their

collection, so I definitely found new information this go round. How much more information?

This episode is going to be a two-parter, and this part, part one,

has a slightly higher word count than the entire episode I did on my old show. So I'm going to say

I found twice as much information. A major source, particularly for the biography portion of this

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