It was hard enough growing up in a lower tier crime family. But, imagine growing up and feeling the whole time like you didn’t “belong” – like somehow you ended up with the wrong family. When I was 40, I learned that I was right – my actual biological dad was a sperm donor and…
John Hall changed my family in many ways, none of them good. Once John and Phyllis hooked up, the Halls went from being petty criminals to “players”. John Hall would plunge our family into two of Philadelphia’s most notorious recent murders. But, first, John would change Phyllis from being just a really terrible mom into…
THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: How lifelong criminal John Hall seduced my mom Phyllis into one – and then more – of his phony jailhouse confessions as a way to reduce his own considerable legal exposure. In this episode, an innocent man named WALTER OGROD pays a terrible price for thinking John Hall was his friend.
