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Foul Play: Crime Series

S22 Ep1: The Hall-Mills Murders

Foul Play: Crime Series

Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Daily News, History

4.4986 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Mystery, Intrigue, Tragedy, Scandal.

These are the themes that embody the most notorious crime of the 1920s - the Hall-Mills murder mystery.

On a dark, moonless night in September of 1922, a couple named Raymond Schlender and Pearl Bahmer, lost in the moment, strolled down a secluded lover's lane. But little did they know their romantic walk in the dark would soon turn into the stuff of nightmares.

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Mystery, intrigue, tragedy, scandal.

0:53.0

These are the themes that embody the most notorious crime of the 1920s, the Hall Mills

0:59.0

murder mystery. On a dark, moonless night in September of 1922, a couple named Raymond

1:07.2

Slender, Improl Barmer, lost in the moment, strolled down a secluded lover's lane. But

1:15.0

little did they know their romantic walk in the dark would soon turn into the stuff

1:20.3

of nightmares. As they walked hand in hand, a chilling scene greeted them, two people

1:30.7

lying lifeless on the ground. Trimbling with fear, they ran to the nearest house, pounding

1:38.8

on the door and begging the owner to call the police. When the authorities arrived, they

1:45.8

were met with a scene this couple had only ever seen in the newspapers. The man, shot

1:52.9

once in the right side of the head, was found on his back with his hand touching the woman's

1:59.0

neck. His hat was covering his face and his glasses were still perched on his nose. He

2:07.4

had bruises on his ears and injuries to his fingers. Along with a deep wound on his

2:14.0

right leg, his watch was gone, but his money was still in his jacket pocket. The woman

2:22.3

was lying beside him with her head on his arm, shot three times in the face with bruises

2:28.7

on her arm. Her feet faced a crab apple tree, but the most harrowing detail was the deep

2:36.5

gash across her throat that had severely damaged her pipes and her lips were brutally

2:42.8

sliced. The mystery took a shocking turn as the identity of the victims was revealed.

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