chuck and cheryl met through a mutual
friend
and just hit it off right away
i think it's the first time she fell in
love
i mean she had other boyfriends but she
knew chuck was the one
all she wanted to do was get married and
start a family
october 6 1979 chuck and cheryl were
married i was the flower girl i got to
wear the pretty dress my brother i had
never seen him happier
the couple moves into a town home in a
quiet aurora neighborhood
they have family nearby and a close
network of friends
their candle was super super nice they
would have friends over a lot
every wednesday was her house cleaning
day laundry day
everybody knew the fact that she was
home
all day on wednesdays
chuck went to work went home
for his launch so we could have lunch
with sherry
was there for a while and then he left
and went back to work
there was something laying by the front
door it was out of place
there was also um
some laundry
um that was kind of knocked over he
called out to her
he walked up the steps is when he found
her
as he got to the top of the stairs he
saw her
hanging from the door top
with an iron cord around her neck
he attempted to do cpr on her and then
he ran downstairs and he ran to
the neighbor's house the neighbor was a
nurse
and he called an ambulance or the police
he continued to do cpr on her until the
paramedics arrived
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cheryl was my daughter
my firstborn
i called her sherry from the time she
was born
she was always a mama's girl
we were about four years apart we always
got along even though there was a big
age gap she would play barbies with me
we were really close
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you have to look at the husband
uh first because he's the closest one
and that that's tough because they're
grieving at the loss of a loved one not
only was chocolate spouse he was also
the last person to see her alive
and he was the one who found her body so
he fit all three criteria of what would
make the number one suspect
chuck you went through many many hours
of questioning
they would go for his story again and
again and again
and it took a toll on him
chuck was very angry with the police
department because in his mind he loved
this woman so much how could you ever
consider me as a suspect
it never crossed my mind that chuck ever
hurt her
never crossed my mind
we spoke with chuck who obviously said
that he was working that day
um we checked into
his whereabouts between 2 30 and 6 p.m
and confirmed that he was seen on job
sites
investigators ruled chuck out and scour
the crime scene for clues
they looked for evidence of latent
prints on door handles on
her purse on some of the items that were
collected
a lot of the prints were
smeared smudged and they had overlays so
they didn't identify
a suspect during her autopsy her
fingernails
were
clipped and there was an apparent blood
stain under one of the fingernails
the one thing we know is that the murder
weapon was something that was close by
her sister said that she last spoke with
cheryl at 3 p.m that day on the phone
and then
at 3 30 neighbors of the adjacent
apartment heard a door slam
and then they heard several loud thuds
and then at 6 00 p.m is when chuck gets
home and finds her so the timeline was
basically 3 p.m to 6 that we were
looking at detectives look for a
connection between cheryl's murder and a
string of burglaries in her neighborhood
part of their initial investigation was
to determine whether somebody had
encountered
cheryl lynn at home when they were
attempting to burglarize her home
the halls recently had a deadbolt
installed on their door
that deadbolt was intact
there did not seem to be anything
disturbed within sherilyn's apartment
and there really wasn't items of value
that were missing
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larry galloway worked at the same cable
company as chalk
larry and my sister went to high school
together him and his wife would
socialize with sherry and chalk they
kind of became casual friends i think
she always thought of him as a little
bit odd
he
showed up there about two weeks before
her murder while chuck was at work and
he stayed for approximately 20 minutes
he made her feel uncomfortable so much
so that she told a friend about his
unexpected visit mr galloway answered
questions about his whereabouts his
relationship with cheryl lynn hall and
her husband between the hours of the
murder he was at his parents home
mowing the grass
he also tells police why he visited
cheryl's home before the murder
he was there to talk about some union
business
chuck was a union steward
larry galloway had been fired from his
position at the cable company and my
brother was able to save his job through
the union
there was another time that my brother
was unable to save larry's job
they weren't able to get any more
information from galloway and there were
no other leads for them to follow
the cops really had no choice but to
move on
initially the investigators spoke with
larry galloway and he gave his alibi and
said he had no knowledge
of the murder again his name kept coming
up as someone that could have possibly
been involved
there were several people that were
asked to take polygraph tests mr
galloway declined and ceased any
cooperation with
the investigation moving forward
once larry galloway refused to cooperate
once chuck had been ruled out as a
suspect
then that's where i think they hit that
wall
it was eaten at me every day that went
by so
i called larry
and i said to him
larry
you're going to get what's coming to you
one day
and he said bring it on
and hung up
it was like an explosion
inside of me
he just didn't seem to care
what happened to her
we felt like we were kind of backed into
a corner
in
1997 advancements in technology and dna
had started to evolve
larry galloway refuses to give police a
dna sample
prosecutors take the case to a grand
jury which issues a subpoena ordering
galloway to provide a dna sample
his lawyers appealed the order to a
judge
the judge ruled that there was
insufficient
evidence to force
mr galloway to provide a dna sample
he got away with not giving his dna
i was thinking if i could just get my
hands on you
our hopes were once again just
absolutely shattered
took i believe wholeheartedly suffered
from ptsd
he would just start crying for no reason
he had two boys and he loved them with
all of his heart but
there was still in the back of his mind
this terrible thing and that had
happened to him
i had 10 years of law enforcement
experience when i began looking into
cheryl hall's murder case
in my mind there's only one person that
knows what happened
and that person is larry
we set up surveillance on
larry galloway's residence and sat there
for about two and a half hours until he
left the residence with another
gentleman
he drove to the chili's restaurant
we maintain a visual on him while he was
eating his meal
after he left the restaurant that's when
we went up to the table to collect his
straw and utensils and napkin
the
swabbing from the straw
matched the blood stain under her
fingernails
this was the break that the case needed
this was
what the family had been waiting for
we walked up to larry galloway
and i advised him that he was under
arrest
larry had no emotional reaction didn't
ask any questions i told him the
warrant was for murder
and he put his hands behind his back and
was very compliant
just hours after the arrest detectives
question larry galloway
there is absolutely no doubt that you
were there when this occurred
no doubt
we just want to know we just want to
know why okay that's all we want to know
is why this happened
so i can't answer
why can't you answer me on that because
you didn't do anything wrong
when you say nothing like that you've
done a lot of stuff what are you talking
about oh you know
he showed no remorse
we both knew without a doubt that we had
the right guy prosecutors prepare for
trial and quickly realize their case is
far from their type
there were a number of obstacles uh in
this case one of the challenges was the
volume of dna that was recovered
from the crime scene this was a case
that was built on dna so any
inconsistency was a significant concern
we made a decision to resolve the case
by way of a plea agreement to hold him
as accountable as i believe that we
could based on the evidence
we took the plea deal because we're not
gamblers
justice for sherry was was definitely
not
worth gambling
as part of his plea agreement
galloway must admit that he murdered
cheryl hall
but he doesn't have to say why he killed
the young woman
why
would you do that to her
why would you
harm her
if i could just know why then i think
maybe i could live with it a little
better
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we got a call
saying that larry galloway was out of
jail
and i'm thinking how could he be out of
jail he hasn't even served his five
years
just a few months later
the family faces another heartbreak
cheryl's widower chuck hall
succumbs to the cancer he'd been
fighting for several years
my brother got to die
knowing
that
the world knew that he was not a
murderer
and that brought peace
to him and to me
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and losing my brother was very hard but
i knew he was gonna be with his wife
with the love of his life
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