Hall–Mills murder case
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The Hall–Mills murder case involved Edward Wheeler Hall, an Episcopal priest, and Eleanor Mills, a member of his choir with whom he was having an affair, both of whom were murdered on September 14, 19
Eleanor Reinhardt Mills (1888–1922) was the wife of James Mills, and one of the murder victims.
Frances Noel Stevens Hall (1874–1942), widow of victim Edward Wheeler Hall and a defendant in the 1926 murder trial.
A calling card of Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall was found at the Hall-Mills murders crime scene in 1922.
The New York Times; December 4, 1926
Lindbergh kidnapping
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On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Col. Charles Lindbergh and his wife, aviator and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was murdered after being abducted from his crib
Hall–Mills murder case
…coverage it received, unusual for a local murder case at that time; it has been regarded as an early example of a media circus. It would take the Lindbergh kidnapping trial in the 1930s to eclipse the high profile of the Hall-Mills case. On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Eleanor Mills and Edward Hall were discovered…
Lindbergh baby poster 1
The ransom note
Aerial view of the Lindbergh estate in 1932
New Jersey State Police Superintendent Norman Schwarzkopf Sr.