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Foul Play: Crime Series

S22 Ep2: 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

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This is episode 2 of the Hall-Mills Murder tragedy. Be sure to listen to episode 1, where we learn about the victims, Edward Wheeler Hall and his lover, Eleanor Mills.

The Hall-Mills murder mystery of the 1920s is a tale of scandal, tragedy, and intrigue that has captivated the public for decades. On a fateful September night in 1922, two innocent bystanders stumbled upon a gruesome scene while on a romantic stroll down a secluded lover's lane. What they saw would haunt them for the rest of their lives.

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0:00.0

This is Episode 2 of the Hall Mills Murder Tragedy.

0:11.8

The Hall Mills Murder Mystery of the 1920s is a tale of scandal, tragedy, and intrigue

0:19.3

that has captivated the public for decades.

0:23.4

On a fateful September night in 1922, two innocent bystanders stumbled upon a gruesome

0:30.5

scene while on a romantic stroll down a secluded lover's lane, what they saw would hunt

0:37.2

them for the rest of their lives.

0:40.4

Two lifeless bodies, a man and a woman were found on lover's lane.

0:46.5

The man had been shot once in the head, and the woman had been shot three times.

0:52.7

She had a deep gash across her throat, and her lips had been sliced.

0:59.0

More shocking than the scene was the identity of the couple.

1:03.6

They were none other than Edward Wheeler Hall, a local minister, and Eleanor Mills, a

1:10.2

member of Edward's choir.

1:13.4

The couple had been in a forbidden love affair, as evidenced by the torn love letters found

1:19.4

scattered around their bodies.

1:22.7

The public was in an uproar, as rumors of corruption within the justice system started

1:28.2

to spread.

1:30.3

The prosecution had originally declared the case open and shut, but soon turned on James

1:36.1

Mills, and the couple who stumbled upon the crime scene, Raymond Slender, and Pearl Palmer,

1:43.3

accusing them of murder.

1:50.5

Justice Parker, of the New Jersey Supreme Court, however, cut through the chaos and appointed

1:56.5

a new prosecutor, Wilbur Mont, to restore order and attempt to uncover what really happened

2:03.7

that night.

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