
MURDERED: Gina Hall
A young college student never comes home after a night of dancing. All the evidence suggests she’s been murdered, but if her body is never found, can her killer ever be brought to justice?
Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial by Ron Peterson Jr.
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Episode Source Material
- Father offering reward for daughter
- Psychic aids search for coed
- Dad prays for missing coed
- Man charged with murder of missing Radford coed
- Murder trial goes into third day
- Despite Epperly conviction, efforts to find body continue
- Stephen Matteson EPPERLY v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia
- Stephen Matteson EPPERLY v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia Appendix To Brief
- Stephen M. Epperly
- Stephen M. EPPERLY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. E.L. BOOKER, Warden; Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Respondents-Appellees.
- Under The Trestle by Ron Peterson Jr.
- Gina Hall’s 1980 murder becomes the subject of new book
- Murder, but no body: Three W&M alums and their role in a landmark Virginia case
- Sunday marks 40 years since Gina Renee Hall murder
- 40 years later, some of Gina Hall’s remains found in Pulaski County
- I cannot emphasize how incredibly sheepish I feel right now
- Coincidences Seen In Coed’s Murder
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