Posted on 06/09/2007 10:07:07 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
An Emporia, Kan., couple adopted Edwin R. Hall when he was 7 because they wanted to give him a better life. Eight years later, after Hall was convicted in juvenile court of threatening his adoptive sister with a knife, he went back into state custody. He would spend the next three years in four juvenile correctional facilities and never return to his adoptive home.
The 26-year-old Hall now sits in the Johnson County jail on $5 million bond, accused of kidnapping and killing 18-year-old Kelsey Smith one week ago today. His attorney, Paul Cramm, declined to comment Friday...
Hall pleaded no contest to aggravated assault in the incident that occurred May 14, 1996, in Emporia, according to Lyon County District Court records. He was removed from his adoptive home after entering his plea about two weeks later. One of Carol and Don Hall’s daughters, Michel, said Friday that the family had decided not to discuss Edwin Hall further...However, Carol Hall told The Emporia Gazette that Edwin Hall’s actions when he was 15 made the couple feel he was a danger to the family. She said the couple felt they would have to give up Edwin. “That was the last time he was in our home,” Carol Hall told the Gazette.
Carol and Don Hall, who have three daughters, adopted Edwin after reading a newspaper article about children available for adoption...She said, however, that Edwin had behavior problems associated with his early childhood. Some of those problems were evident during the time he lived with the Halls before the adoption...
A review of adult criminal records this week did not reveal any felony offenses committed by Hall. But juvenile court records from Lyon County obtained Friday show Hall had been before a judge several times as a teen. He was 13 years old when he was charged with a misdemeanor in August 1994 for taking his father’s Chevy van for a ride. Then in October of that year, two weeks before his 14th birthday, Hall allegedly hit an 11-year-old boy over his head with a baseball bat hard enough to hospitalize him. That allegation came to light in a lawsuit filed in 2002 against Hall and his parents...
Since leaving juvenile correctional facilities when he was 18, Hall has moved around throughout Kansas. Eight months after he was released from custody in June 1999 he married his wife, Aletha, at the Sedgwick County Courthouse in Wichita. The two of them eventually moved to the Kansas City area, where friends and neighbors said they seemed like a typical young family. At the time of his arrest, Hall was living in a small Olathe home with Aletha and their 4-year-old son..Neighbors said he never talked about his earlier family life.
After Edwin Hall was removed from the Halls’ Emporia home in 1996, the family didn’t see him again until he called them about three or four years ago. Carol Hall said he seemed calm and in control of his life...
and all THAT.. is supposed to excuse his crime of murder to preclude him from being the “GUEST OF HONOR” at a State held “Texas Necktie Party.”
Time to return the favor and get a little batting practice in too.
I could care less. If he did it, I hope he gets the absolute max the judge can give him.
I would like to know how he ended by being adopted at the age of seven.
If he gets sentenced in Kansas, doubt there is going to be a necktie party. If my memory serves correctly, Kansas has no death penalty (and that’s why the BTK killer didn’t get it.)
Replenish the Earth.
The older women teach the younger.
God's plan for marriage is for it to be between one man and one woman for life .. have children and rear them in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
If people do this, the odds of having screwed up kids (and the myriad of social services involved), would be extremely decreased thus saving society the trouble and pain of experiencing such hellacious behavior.
(and in my best John Balushi voice ... )
But No-ooooooooooo.
I think the family read article about kids needing adoption and thought they could make a difference. Sadly this kid was too messed up for them to do any good. Don’t you know they were at ropes end when they told him to leave. Obviously the adoptive parents are wonderful people and got pulled into this mess by just meaning to do good things. Reminds me so much of the Devlin case.
Hall family got far more than they could handle.
Bad seeds need to be taken out.
So?
Snuff this P.O.S. before another innocent gets harmed at his hands.
Kansas has a death penalty, but hasn’t executed anyone since the late 70s. This person might be the one that turns it around. But it said on TV last night that they think now he murdered her in Missouri, so I would imagine they would have first dibs on executing him, and I think Missouri does execute.
Great to hear about Missouri. Wonder if the Feds also have jurisdiction due to taking her over state lines.
Amazingly, Boxer actually voted against invoking cloture.
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