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Sep 2022
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A Slaying on Lovers Lane - September 14 ...

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September 14th: Edward Wheeler Hall  and Eleanor Mills Killed (1922)
Sensationalism and the media can warp and alter a case right before our very eyes. On September 14th 1922 a couple was murdered while out on a romantic rendezvous. A case that, at its peak, was all the nation was talking about and splashed across almost every front page in 1926. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%E2%80%93Mills_murder_case, https://yalereview.yale.edu/hall-mills-murder-trial-1926, https://www.unsolvedcasebook.com/the-hall-mills-murders/, https://sites.psu.edu/gfergusonpassionblog/2020/02/19/the-hall-mills-murder-case/, https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/02/archives/was-the-murderer-in-the-jury-box-the-minister-and-the-choir-singer.html
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