New Jersey man charged with murdering disabled adult daughter after 911 call
Dennis J. Hall is charged after police say he called 911 and admitted strangling his disabled daughter, Devin Hall, inside their East Avenue home.
Dennis J. Hall, 71, is charged with first-degree murder after he called 911 and admitted he had strangled his disabled adult daughter inside their East Avenue home in Gloucester County. The Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office said officers were sent to the residence at 6:16 a.m. on June 11, and Hall repeated the admission when first responders arrived.
Police arrested Hall at the scene on an initial attempted murder charge. A witness also told investigators Hall had acknowledged what happened before the call, and prosecutors later upgraded the case after the medical examiner’s findings came back. Hall remained in the Salem County Jail as prosecutors pursued a motion for pretrial detention.
The Gloucester/Salem/Cumberland Regional Medical Examiner ruled Devin Hall’s cause of death was manual asphyxia and classified the manner of death as homicide. Devin was removed from life support and pronounced dead on June 12, 2026. Her obituary identified her as Devin Jolene-Kaye Hall, born Aug. 9, 1985, and said she died at 3:18 p.m. that day. Barclay Funeral Home listed a viewing and service for June 19 in Clayton, with burial at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Hurffville.
Devin Hall was 40, nonverbal, used a wheelchair, and had multiple disabilities from birth. Jan Hall, Devin’s mother and Dennis Hall’s wife, said Dennis Hall had been depressed and dealing with mental-health problems during the previous year, and she said she did not understand why he did not wake her and ask for help before the violence occurred.
About one in five U.S. adults provides regular care or assistance to a friend or family member with a health condition or disability, according to the CDC. Caregivers often coordinate health care and daily activities and need support to avoid burnout. New Jersey’s Statewide Respite Care Program was created in 1987 to give relief to family or uncompensated caregivers of frail elderly and functionally impaired people.
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If convicted, Hall could face life in prison.
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