On September 17, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall (41) and Eleanor Mills (34) were found in an apple orchard in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mills had been shot three times and had her throat slashed. Hall had been shot once in the head. Both of the victims were covered with explicit love letters that they had written to each other and the Reverend also had his calling card placed on his feet. The murder suggests that the illicit affair between the two lovers had been discovered. The crime scene was improperly treated and the police work was shoddy at best. No autopsies were performed on either body. Four years after the murders a reporter found the calling card that had been sitting against Hall's feet and had it tested for fingerprints. The prints matched those of Hall's brother-in-law. As a result of this finding, Hall's wife Frances, her brothers William and Henry and their cousin Henry were all named as suspects in the murder case. The trial would take a month and deliberation would go on for six hours before they were all acquitted of the charges against them. No one has ever been held accountable for the murders.
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unsolved murders and mysteries
Mystery / Thriller*graphic warning * I'm interested in this stuff so why not make a book on it these are real life murders that were never solved or I just had to write about them cause they are creepy :) #250 #972 Mystery / Thriller
