Hall was twenty-four in September 2006 and lived in East St Louis, Illinois. She had told people she was pregnant when she was not.
On September 15, 2006 she attacked her friend Jimella Tunstall, twenty-three, who was seven months pregnant, struck her unconscious, and cut the foetus from her abdomen with a pair of scissors. Tunstall bled to death. The baby did not survive. Hall then took Tunstall's three children, DeMond, seven, Ivan, two, and Jimyra, one, to a flat and drowned them in a bathtub, and their bodies were found in a washing machine and a dryer.
She presented the dead infant at a hospital as her own newborn, which is how the case came to light. She was arrested within days.
She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life without parole on June 9, 2008, the plea removing the possibility of a death sentence.
The case is one of a small number of American foetal-abduction killings, which are documented in the medical and forensic literature as a category. Four people and an unborn child died in one act, and this entry is in the archive under that classification rather than as a serial case.