From a Wall Street Journal review by Tom Nolan of the book by Joe Pompeo titled “Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime”:

It was called “the great story of a generation.” In September 1922, the Rev. Edward Hall and his lover, Eleanor Mills, a member of his church’s choir, were found murdered near New Brunswick, N.J. Both were shot dead, their bodies laid out on a field beneath a crabapple tree. Eleanor’s throat was slashed, and her letters to the married cleric were scattered around their corpses.