It's all about true crime this week, guys!  Delia tells Savanah the story of the Hall-Mills Murders, a story rife with scandal, tragedy, and downright bonkery.  The night of September 14th, 1922, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Reverend Edward Hall received a phone call from one Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a housewife and member of the choir at the church of St. John the Evangelist.  He said goodbye to his wife, Frances, and maid, Louise, and left - never to be seen alive again. Two days later, a gruesome discovery on the outskirts of town would lead to more questions than answers and bolster the rise of a new kind of journalism in America: the tabloid.

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Sources:

Beckerman, Jim.  “A NJ cold-case that’s still hot:  How the Hall-Mills Murders Fascinated the nation.”  Northjersey.com, www.northjersey.com, 14th September 2022, https://www.northjersey.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/09/14/hall-mills-murders-case-location-nj-100-years/66060247007/.

Kunstler, William.  The Hall Mills Murder Case: The Minister and the Choir Singer.  Rutgers University Press, 1980.

Geary, Rick.  Lover’s Lane:  The Hall Mills Mystery.  NBM Publishing, 2012.

Pompeo, Joe.  “A Sensational Murder Trial in the Newly Founded New Yorker.”  The New Yorker, Conde Nast, 13 September 2022, https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-sensational-murder-trial-in-the-newly-founded-new-yorker

Pompeo, Joe.  Blood and Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime.  William Morrow, 2022.

Schecter, Harold.  “The Hall Mills Murder Trial, 1926: A consideration of death.”  The Yale Review, The Yale Review, 1 April 2019, https://yalereview.org/article/hall-mills-murder-trial-1926.