Capt. Earl Scroggin with items that James Waybern Hall stole from E. C. Adams

Items Hall stole from Adams

Doyle Mulherin

Fayrene Clemmons

Daily News / newspapers.com

Detective Herbert Peterson (left) and Hall

(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette / Newspapers.com)

Georgia:

Hitchhike killer James Waybern Hall

Episode sources:

1. The Arkansas Hitchhike Killer: James Waybern “Red” Hall by Janie Nesbitt Jones

2. “When Justice Triumphed” by Ruth Reynolds (New York Daily News, January 26, 1946) 

3. “Alleged Slayer of Six Plans Insanity Plea” (The Knoxville Journal, May 7, 1945)

4. “Confessed Slayer to Trial Monday” (Joplin Globe, May 6, 1945)

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