Today we bring you the tragic case of Freda Heyn. The last time anyone remembered seeing 68-year-old Freda Heyn alive was on November 3, 2003 at the post office in Oldfield, Missouri. Six months after she went missing, a couple out running fire trails in the Mark Twain National Forest discovered a skull and called authorities. Medical examiners positively identified the skull as belonging to Freda Heyn and a murder case was opened. Detectives began questioning residents who lived near Freda’s trailer, including then 36-year-old Paula Hall. Paula had been romantically involved with David Epperson, who was renting a house from Freda’s son-in-law.
In 2006, prosecutors charged Paula Hall, her ex brother-in-law Billy Wayne Hall, and David Epperson with murder in the case after Freda's DNA was matched to the crime scene thanks to a domestic assault of his girlfriend. In 2009, a jury convicted Paula Hall of second-degree murder, but that conviction was overturned by the Missouri Court of Appeals in 2013 and Paula walked free. However, today, Paula joins us, still from behind bars.
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