On September 16, 1922, the corpses of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found on a New Jersey farm, and the killer had arranged the bodies in a pose conveying intimacy. The local authorities failed to secure any indictments, however, and it took a swashbuckling crusade by the editor of a Hearst tabloid to revive the case and bring it to trial at last. Recalling an electrifying but forgotten murder, Joe Pompeo traces the birth of American tabloid journalism, pandering to the masses with sordid tales of sex and murder.