Neighbors told KMBC’s Jere Gish that Hall moved into a home on Lincoln Street in Olathe about six months ago with his wife and 4-year-old son. People knew him as Jack.
Edwin Roy Hall
“(He was) just your normal, average guy. (He) liked to work on cars and goof around on motorcycles and lawnmowers,” neighbor Cameron Migues said.
Migues lived next door to Hall. Migues said he talked to him several times a week, and their children played together.
Migues said that his wife then saw the surveillance picture that police had released of the person of interest in the Smith case.
“She looked at the pictures and said, ‘That looks like our neighbor.’ We both kind of laughed it off at first, and then when I saw the pictures of the truck. I was, like, well?” Migues said.
Gish reported that Hall owned a pickup truck like the one police had been searching for.
Migues said he called authorities Wednesday morning.
“I called the TIPS Hotline and gave them the information, and a couple of hours later, there were police officers sitting here watching the house,” Migues said.
Police have been in the neighborhood since Hall’s arrest, Gish reported.
“I was shocked. I was shocked,” neighbor Tersa Dart said.
Dart lives across the street from Hall.
“He didn’t really speak to anyone or say anything to anyone. We didn’t know him well,” Dart said.
Dart said she was surprised by Hall’s arrest.
“He has a kid, so I didn’t think he’d be capable of doing anything like that,” Dart said.
A MySpace.com page that purportedly is Hall’s, shows a picture of him with the name Jack and describes him as a “sweet troubled soul.”
A list under Jack’s general interests includes, “eating small children and harming small animals.”
Hall is being held in jail on $5 million bond.
"I moved back to Olathe then back to Wichita then back to Olathe then to Walthill NE then Souix City IA then back to Olathe then to south KCMO and now back in Olathe. I also moved to different places within the towns I lived in."
I hope that they're looing at ALL missing young girls in all of those places since they lived together in those towns and states....Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, IA, and "different places within the towns!"
Oh my name it is Jack Hall,
Chimney sweep, chimney sweep,
Oh my name it is Jack Hall, chimney sweep.
Oh my name it is Jack Hall,
And I've robb'd both great and small,
And my neck shall pay for all
When I die, when I die,
And my neck shall pay for all when I die.
I have twenty pounds in store,
that's no joke, that's no joke,
I have twenty pounds in store, that's no joke.
I have twenty pounds in store
And I'll rob for twenty more,
And my neck shall pay for all
When I die, when I die,
And my neck shall pay for all when I die.
O they tell me that in goal
I shall die, I shall die
O they tell me that in goal, I shall die.
O they tell me that in goal
I shall drink no more brown ale,
But be dash'd if ever I fail
Til I die, til I die
But be dash'd if ever I fail till I die.
O I rode up Tyburn Hill
In a cart, in a cart
O I rode up Tyburn Hill in a cart.
O I rode up Tyburn Hill,
and 'twas there I made my will,
Saying, "The best of friends must part,
So, farewell, so, farewell."
Saying, "The best of friends must part
So, farewell."
Up the ladder I did grope,
that's no joke, that's no joke
Up the ladder I did grope, that's no joke.
Up the ladder I did grope,
and the hangman spread the rope,
O but never a word said I,
coming down, coming down,
O never a word said I coming down.