Decades-old audio tape reveals clues into 1971 cold case killing

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Police in Montgomery County, Md., made an arrest in the decades-old slaying of sheriff’s deputy James Tappen Hall.

The long-forgotten audio, police say, was among a string of clues that led them to a 70-year-old living in a high-rise apartment building in Upstate New York.

In the early 1970s, detectives thought Smith was someone who might have known what happened to Hall, but they did not suspect him of beingBut in the recording — of Smith talking to detectives in 1973 — he knew details about the shooting that police had never released to the public, including how many times Hall was fired upon.

“He was just out there doing his job,” Leggett said, noting that Hall wasn’t even supposed to be working that night. “He was filling in for another guy who couldn’t come in.” Philo remembers that her dad wasn’t just an attentive father and grandfather; he was also one who would show up with gallons of milk during snowstorms.

“There isn’t anything we can do,” Philo remembers one of the doctors telling them. Her father died days later.

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