IN THIS EPISODE: John Hall was a MASTER CRIMINAL. And yet, DONNA HALL's mom, PHYLLIS managed to break him and turn him from the PHILLY PD's favorite SNITCH into a homeless dead guy. If there's really a master criminal here, it might just be PHYLLIS. How this bonkers TRUE CRIME family saga became a podcast - and what will happen in season two!

SHOW NOTES

In season one of The Hall Closet, I wanted to give you an overview of The Halls - a family that seemed compelled to live outside the law. And, I wanted to introduce you to the principle players - my mom Phyllis and John Hall in particular.

It turns out that telling the truth does set you free! I have wanted - perhaps even needed - to tell this story for a long time. The process of telling it - and the way we've told it - has been incredibly therapeutic. I'd even say cathartic.

As my storytelling partner in this podcast would put it, how you tell a story IS the story. We've all listened to people massacre a joke. Even a great story can die if not told the right way. Alan Katz has been telling stories for a long time. Back before he was a podcaster, he wrote and produced movies and TV shows like HBO's iconic "TALES FROM THE CRYPT". In fact, Alan CO-CREATED THE CRYPT KEEPER!

Alan's approach to storytelling - and I really do hope you've enjoyed that approach here - is to try and see the world through his storytelling subject's eyes. To make the audience feel everything I felt.

In Season Two of The Hall Closet, I'll tell you even more stories about John and Phyllis and the rest of the Halls. In the mean time, please connect with us via our PATREON PAGE (follow the link below).

Subscribers will be the first to know when Season Two is ready to drop. But subscribers will get sooooo much more! There's my DAILY DIARY and EXCLUSIVE VIDEO AND AUDIO CONTENT created just for SUBSCRIBERS.

And, once a month, I'll invite subscribers INTO The Hall Closet - so they can ask me questions about my life and family and how I survived growing up in a lower tier crime family in the 1980's outside of Philly.

I really do look forward to seeing you there!

Donna Hall

I cannot recommend highly enough that you buy and read Tom Lowenstein's "THE TRIALS OF WALTER OGROD". It contains lots of juicy details about John Hall and my family. You can buy it here at Amazon or here at Goodreads.

The Hall Closet is written by Donna Hall and A L Katz. Costard & Touchstone Productions produced it. Donna Hall and A L Katz are the executive producers.

CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNINGS: The Hall Closet is not intended for sensitive audiences. Domestic abuse, violence, child endangerment, adultery, explicit language.

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