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Murder at Green Springs: The True Story of the Hall Case, Firestorm of Prejudices
Murder at Green Springs: The True Story of the Hall Case, Firestorm of Prejudices
Murder at Green Springs: The True Story of the Hall Case, Firestorm of Prejudices
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Murder at Green Springs: The True Story of the Hall Case, Firestorm of Prejudices

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The cautionary true crime shocker of Virginia’s Elizabeth Hall, and one of the most sensational trials of an accused murderess since Lizzie Borden.
 
On an April morning in 1914, Victor Hall was murdered in his store at Green Springs Depot. It was only hours after his competitor’s business had been torched. The Louisa County sheriff, state investigator, and railroad detectives suspected Hall's rival, one of a dozen men with viable motives. Then gossip spread that Victor’s wife, Elizabeth, had poisoned her first husband. Coupled with more sordid rumors, the unfounded accusations became irresistibly salacious headlines, whipping the state of Virginia into a frenzy for seven months. Friends and neighbors perjured themselves to become part of the front-page story. And as Hall’s own Pinkerton detective turned against her in the same mad rush to judgment, the widow found herself trapped in a nightmare that was just beginning.
 
A century later, J.K. Brandau, husband of Elizabeth Hall’s great-granddaughter, finally unearths the timely and tragic story in which truth didn’t stand a chance against the most public, lurid, and sensational lies.
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Release dateDec 1, 2007
ISBN9781614480631
Murder at Green Springs: The True Story of the Hall Case, Firestorm of Prejudices

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