The Hall Closet Podcast

society, culture, true crime · EN

I'm Donna Hall. The Hall Closet Podcast is true crime like you've never heard it before - told from the inside. It's also about how growing up the way I did ripples throughout your entire life. I grew up in the 1980's and 90's in a lower tier crime family outside of Philadelphia. We weren’t the Corleone’s, but we made national headlines! My mom – Phyllis - went from flirting with criminality to actually sleeping with it. She spent 6 months in prison for child endangerment (she was "The Home Alone Mom From Bucks County" in the newspaper headlines). My stepdad – John Hall – was the Philadelphia PD’s favorite snitch. By the time he was done, he’d insert my family into two of Philly’s biggest unsolved murders, put an innocent man on Death Row for 24 years and his own stepson in prison for a murder he didn't commit. You have never heard a story like t