Murder Victim:
The following information is from an article published July 11, 2019, courtesy of PETERSBURG, Va. (WWBT), station NBC12:
A brutal murder rocked Petersburg and the NBC12 family 25 years ago this week (July 11, 2019).
Hope Denise Hall was a fighter all her life. She beat double pneumonia at 3 years old and kidney cancer at 9. She graduated with honors from Virginia State University and got her first job in TV at NBC12.
“She was caring and sweet and quiet, didn’t bother anybody,” her mother, Carol Sievers, said.
Sievers said Hall wanted to be the journalist telling stories, not the face of a brutal crime.
Hope, a young, 22yoa production assistant for station NBC12, didn’t show up for work one day in 1994. She was founded murdered in her Petersburg apartment. Her killer, Shermaine Ali Johnson, who was 16 at the time, was already serving a 100-year sentence for the violent rapes of two other women in Virginia when DNA tied him to Hall’s murder. By the time he turned 19, he was on death row.
At the time of her death, Hall had a 3-year-old son. Sievers said he is doing well today and has a family of his own.
Hope's story is featured on the Forensic Files episode 'Breaking News’, Season 8-Episode 19. If anyone has more information or a bio, please message me and I'll be honored to add it to her page...John-Landen's Papa
The following information is from an article published July 11, 2019, courtesy of PETERSBURG, Va. (WWBT), station NBC12:
A brutal murder rocked Petersburg and the NBC12 family 25 years ago this week (July 11, 2019).
Hope Denise Hall was a fighter all her life. She beat double pneumonia at 3 years old and kidney cancer at 9. She graduated with honors from Virginia State University and got her first job in TV at NBC12.
“She was caring and sweet and quiet, didn’t bother anybody,” her mother, Carol Sievers, said.
Sievers said Hall wanted to be the journalist telling stories, not the face of a brutal crime.
Hope, a young, 22yoa production assistant for station NBC12, didn’t show up for work one day in 1994. She was founded murdered in her Petersburg apartment. Her killer, Shermaine Ali Johnson, who was 16 at the time, was already serving a 100-year sentence for the violent rapes of two other women in Virginia when DNA tied him to Hall’s murder. By the time he turned 19, he was on death row.
At the time of her death, Hall had a 3-year-old son. Sievers said he is doing well today and has a family of his own.
Hope's story is featured on the Forensic Files episode 'Breaking News’, Season 8-Episode 19. If anyone has more information or a bio, please message me and I'll be honored to add it to her page...John-Landen's Papa
Murder Victim:
The following information is from an article published July 11, 2019, courtesy of PETERSBURG, Va. (WWBT), station NBC12:
A brutal murder rocked Petersburg and the NBC12 family 25 years ago this week (July 11, 2019).
Hope Denise Hall was a fighter all her life. She beat double pneumonia at 3 years old and kidney cancer at 9. She graduated with honors from Virginia State University and got her first job in TV at NBC12.
“She was caring and sweet and quiet, didn’t bother anybody,” her mother, Carol Sievers, said.
Sievers said Hall wanted to be the journalist telling stories, not the face of a brutal crime.
Hope, a young, 22yoa production assistant for station NBC12, didn’t show up for work one day in 1994. She was founded murdered in her Petersburg apartment. Her killer, Shermaine Ali Johnson, who was 16 at the time, was already serving a 100-year sentence for the violent rapes of two other women in Virginia when DNA tied him to Hall’s murder. By the time he turned 19, he was on death row.
At the time of her death, Hall had a 3-year-old son. Sievers said he is doing well today and has a family of his own.
Hope's story is featured on the Forensic Files episode 'Breaking News’, Season 8-Episode 19. If anyone has more information or a bio, please message me and I'll be honored to add it to her page...John-Landen's Papa
The following information is from an article published July 11, 2019, courtesy of PETERSBURG, Va. (WWBT), station NBC12:
A brutal murder rocked Petersburg and the NBC12 family 25 years ago this week (July 11, 2019).
Hope Denise Hall was a fighter all her life. She beat double pneumonia at 3 years old and kidney cancer at 9. She graduated with honors from Virginia State University and got her first job in TV at NBC12.
“She was caring and sweet and quiet, didn’t bother anybody,” her mother, Carol Sievers, said.
Sievers said Hall wanted to be the journalist telling stories, not the face of a brutal crime.
Hope, a young, 22yoa production assistant for station NBC12, didn’t show up for work one day in 1994. She was founded murdered in her Petersburg apartment. Her killer, Shermaine Ali Johnson, who was 16 at the time, was already serving a 100-year sentence for the violent rapes of two other women in Virginia when DNA tied him to Hall’s murder. By the time he turned 19, he was on death row.
At the time of her death, Hall had a 3-year-old son. Sievers said he is doing well today and has a family of his own.
Hope's story is featured on the Forensic Files episode 'Breaking News’, Season 8-Episode 19. If anyone has more information or a bio, please message me and I'll be honored to add it to her page...John-Landen's Papa
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