Killing of Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills — the full case file

No one has ever been charged in the killing of Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills. Episcopal priest Edward Wheeler Hall and choir member Eleanor Mills, with whom he was having an affair, were found shot to death in a New Jersey field in September 1922. Hall's wife and her two brothers were tried in 1926 and acquitted; the case remains legally unsolved. On September 14, 1922, Edward Wheeler Hall and Eleanor Mills are murdered in Franklin Township, New Jersey. On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Hall and Mills are discovered in a field near a farm in Somerset County, New Jersey. In 1922, Initial investigation led by Joseph E. Stricker yields no indictments. On November 3, 1926, the Hall–Mills trial begins at the Somerset County Courthouse in Somerville, New Jersey. On December 3, 1926, Frances Hall, Henry Hewgill Stevens, and William Carpender Stevens are acquitted of the murders. On February 7, 1930, Jane Gibson, the prosecution's key witness known as the 'pig woman,' dies. On May 26, 1934, Henry de la Bruyere Carpender, an initial suspect never brought to trial, dies. On December 3, 1939, Henry Hewgill Stevens dies, 13 years to the day after the acquittal. On December 19, 1942, Frances Noel Stevens Hall dies. On December 30, 1942, William 'Willie' Carpender Stevens dies, 11 days after his sister. The case remains unsolved. This case file is kept in memory of Eleanor Reinhardt Mills and Edward Wheeler Hall. The full sourced case file, with every fact cited, is at casepin dot org.

Transcript from the video’s narration track. For every source, open the case file.