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Woman Charged With Jeweler Murphy’s Murder To Be Featured In Netflix Reality Show September 28, 2021 (3 comments)
New Orleans, LA—Megan Hall (pictured), the woman charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of beloved Pennsylvania jeweler Patrick Murphy, is being featured in the Netflix series “Jailbirds: New Orleans.” Image: WNEP TV
Hall’s murder trial was slated to begin this week, but was delayed due to COVID and the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, reports The Morning Call, a newspaper in Allentown, PA. Murphy Jewelers has three stores in Pennsylvania: Pottsville, Hamburg, and a year-old outpost at the Lehigh Valley Mall in Whitehall, a suburb of Allentown.
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Not surprisingly, Murphy’s friends and colleagues are upset by the prospect of Hall’s appearance in the series, especially since she hasn’t gone to trial yet. Robert Carl, president and CEO of the Schuylkill County Chamber of Commerce, told the Morning Call he finds it “irreverent at best” and that Murphy’s family is “already going through hell.”
“I don’t find anything here humorous or even entertaining in value,” Carl said [in the article]. “A man is dead. A woman’s in jail. And the man that’s dead was my very good friend. And I just don’t understand the world we live in why you would give any notoriety to somebody that has a charge of murder, and I’m just totally baffled by it and pretty upset by it.”
If convicted, Hall—who also goes by Magen, including in the upcoming Netflix series—faces a mandatory life prison sentence for the murder charge and up to 99 years on several other counts she’s been charged with, including a June 2019 indictment charging her with robbery and obstruction of justice.