The Hall-Mills Murder Case: The Minister and the Choir Singer

Rutgers University Press
The Hall-Mills Murder Case: The Minister and the Choir Singer

On Saturday, September 16, 1922, the bodies of Edward Hall, a handsome Episcopal rector, and Eleanor Mills, his choir singer and lover, were found near a lovers' lane in New Jersey. Four years later, the minister's widow and her brothers were tried for the murders and acquitted. Renowned criminal lawyer William M. Kunstler tells the tale.