Detectives closed the 51-year-old homicide of a Montgomery County special deputy sheriff last week.
“I’ve been calling, I probably call every six months,” she said. “’You know, guys, you’ve got to do something. I know he’s out there. I may be old, but he may be younger, and he’s out there. You keep looking.’”anniversary of Hall’s homicide.
Investigators reviewed the case files and recordings and interviewed witnesses for almost a year before setting their sites on Larry David Becker, who had been interviewed by police in 1973 but never named a suspect, police said. Becker began using the name Smith in 1975, police said, and had been living in New York for 45 years.Smith confessed to the homicide Thursday during an interview with investigators in New York, police said. He said he shot Hall by accident and didn't know he had died. Police arrested Smith and charged him with first-degree murder.
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