Sunday, May 13, 2012

Cold Hall Case Heats Up With Find at Cape

"Remains found on Cape are pregnant woman’s" April 24, 2012|By Brian R. Ballou

BARNSTABLE - The discovery of Trudie Hall’s remains has provided authorities with new evidence in their two-year quest to find her killer.

“Though Trudie will never speak again, by finding her she has told us much,’’ Michael O’Keefe, Cape & Islands district attorney, said during a press conference Tuesday announcing the identification of the skeletal remains found Thursday. “Among other things, she has told us how many times she was shot and with what kind of bullets.’’

Hall, 23, a certified nursing assistant from Nantucket, was four months pregnant when her mother reported her missing on July 28, 2010.

A day later, police found the car she had rented, a 2009 Toyota Avalon, in a commuter parking lot in West Barnstable. Investigators found blood and bullet casings inside, prompting them to classify the case as a homicide....

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