Vanity Fair correspondent Joe Pompeo talks about his book based on an investigation into a century-old double homicide.
One hundred years ago, in September 1922, two murder victims were found lying under a crabapple tree in a New Jersey field, their bodies staged in a strange tableau with torn love letters strewn around and their lifeless hands reaching out to each other. The victims were a prominent Episcopal minister named Edward Hall and a member of his church choir named Eleanor Mills, both of whom were married to other people.
“I knew the area very well, I had this personal connection to it, and I was very interested in the time period and the emergence of this new type of newspaper, which I’ve covered as a media reporter,” says the author. “They were these over-the-top, just completely outrageous, just shocking, lurid publications, and I was really interested in learning more about that. And I saw how those two threads would fuse together to make what I thought would be a good book.
Also, it’s more challenging because you can dig as deep as you possibly can into what exists in the historical record on a particular character, but there’s always going to be some question you can’t answer, and as a reporter, you want to just pick up the phone and confirm it and you can’t. You are stuck with what you can piece together from the historical record. So it’s a little bit frustrating, but in the end, I just fell in love with this sort of research.
I picked up the eyeglasses that were once on the face of this long-dead person that became this major part of my life for four years, and it’s just, you can’t really describe it, you’re holding something that had a physical connection to these people that you never met, are never going to meet, you’re never going to hear their voice.
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