On this day, Sept. 16, in 1922, a young couple in New Jersey discovered the slain bodies of an Episcopal priest and a member of his choir with whom he was having an affair.
The suspected killers were the priest's wife and her brothers in what became known as the Hall-Mills case.
The victims, Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills, were both shot in the head with a .32-caliber pistol. Her tongue had been cut out. Their bodies had been placed under a crabapple tree, positioned side by side with torn-up love letters placed between their bodies.
The case against Frances Noel Stevens Hall and her brothers fell apart during the month long trial when the key witness changed her story each time she told it, and the three were acquitted.
The Hall-Mills case has been extensively written about, and it has also been speculated that parts of the ending of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald were based on the murder. - Scott McCabe
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