08-06-2010, 03:12 AM
i've been following this mystery locally, and was surprised to see it covered on the nancy grace show last night. so i may as well cover it here. this young Nantucket woman has been the subject of an intense search, and in the first few days we were not even privy to her name or photo. it's all a big mystery. her own mother didn't know she was married, and we don't know the name of the husband. (??). it seems to be a convoluted tale, and it looks as though she is probably dead. word has it blood and brain matter was found in her car. she was pregnant supposedly by married man shown here.
Cape Cod Times:
August 06, 2010
CENTERVILLE — Police investigating the disappearance of Trudie Hall conducted an intense search of a home and vehicles on Great Marsh Road yesterday. They also questioned the home's owner, a married man who sources say had a relationship with the 23-year-old missing Nantucket woman and who police believe is the father of her unborn child.
Shortly before midnight Wednesday, the police descended on the home at 259 Great Marsh Road, according to sources with knowledge of the investigation. The police continued to search the two-story, Cape-style home yesterday morning, removing several brown paper bags sealed with red tape and towing away a white Nissan Armada as well as a black and red Ducati motorcycle.
A man listed as one of the home's owners, Quoizel Wilson, is the registered owner of a red 2008 Ducati motorcycle, according to motor vehicle records.
Wilson spent several hours at the Barnstable police station yesterday, but the police declined to comment on why he was there. He declined to comment on what he was doing at the police station when he left in a taxicab shortly after 2 p.m.
Law enforcement sources confirmed that the police are interested in Wilson's role in the case, but no one, including Wilson, has been identified publicly as a suspect.
Hall left Nantucket for Cape Cod on July 27, according to her family. She spoke to her mother that night but could not be reached by telephone the next day and has not been heard from since.
According to police sources, Hall stayed with her husband at the Bayside Resort in West Yarmouth prior to her disappearance. Although official sources have confirmed that Hall is married, the name of her husband was not available as of yesterday.
The police seized a rented 2009 Toyota Avalon July 30 and examined it for evidence at the Barnstable police station. The police searched several areas of Barnstable for 5½ hours Saturday but declined to release any new information, instead referring all questions to Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe.
O'Keefe so far has declined to say anything except that the police are investigating a missing-person case.
"We're working the case very hard," he said yesterday. "When there's something appropriate to release, we'll do it."
Neighbors yesterday described the Great Marsh Road house as quiet, though two women who live behind the home said there were a lot of people who came and went from the property. "I'm telling you, there's a lot of people in that house," one of the women said.
A canine officer who searched the area early yesterday morning told one of the women that he was looking for an "item," not a person, she said.
Another neighbor said that two female residents left the house in a taxi early yesterday morning.
Investigators examined the Armada under a white canopy in the driveway before having it towed away from the house. The Armada is registered to Ruby Lee Miller, 56, whose last known address, according to online public records, was in Rosedale, Miss.
A woman who said she was Miller hung up then did not pick up phone calls to a number listed in her name seeking comment yesterday.
Police officers at the house declined to comment, except to say their presence at the home was part of "an active investigation."
At about 8:45 a.m., investigators emerged from the house carrying brown paper bags, the kind generally used in evidence collection. A few hours later, a detective left the house carrying a pair of running shoes and a brown paper bag.
Man tied to case has criminal past
Quoizel Wilson is a former Nantucket resident, originally from Mississippi, with Rosedale among his former addresses. Until 2008 he worked as a manager for the Nantucket Regional Transportation Authority.
In November 2008, a Nantucket grand jury indicted him for allegedly stealing more than $8,000 from fare boxes on Nantucket. The indictment followed an investigation by the state Attorney General's Office that began in March 2008, when an island transportation official became suspicious about money missing from bus fare boxes. Investigators began monitoring the boxes; it is alleged that between July and September 2008 Wilson stole more than $8,000 from the boxes.
During his arrest in November 2008, the police found a loaded handgun in his unlocked car parked in his driveway, and he was charged with improper storage of a firearm.
In June 2009, he pleaded guilty to all charges in the case and received a two-year suspended sentence. He was required to pay back the $8,000 and a $500 fine for the firearm charge.
At one point, Wilson worked as a bouncer at The Muse nightclub on the island, according to an employee working there yesterday.
The Wilsons were members while living on Nantucket of the New Life Ministries International church, the same church Hall and her family attend.
The Rev. Donovan Kerr, who baptized Hall eight years ago, said the Wilsons were model citizens.
"My experience with (the Wilsons) has been positive. (Quoizel Wilson) is a wonderful person, very quiet, but I've never had any negative experiences," Kerr said.
Kerr said he doesn't recall any friction or animosity between Hall and the Wilsons.
Hall's mother, Vivienne Walker, vaguely remembers Wilson from church events, but he is not a close friend of the family, she said yesterday.
Walker expressed frustration during an interview in her Hatch Circle Cape-style home that her daughter is still missing. Her husband and four other children were nearby during the interview, and family photographs were scattered around the room.
Hall was preparing to enroll in a Florida nursing school when she became pregnant, Walker said. The plan was for Walker to raise the baby while Hall established a career, she said.
But while she knew her daughter was pregnant, Walker said she had no idea Hall was married, nor did she know the identity of her son-in-law. "I don't know anything about any of that," she said. "I didn't talk with my daughter about her personal business."
Walker said she is working with Kerr to set up a prayer vigil for Hall. She maintains that Hall's friends know more than they have let on and urged them to break their silence.
"I wish they'd just come out and say what they know," Walker said.
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Cape Cod Times:
August 06, 2010
CENTERVILLE — Police investigating the disappearance of Trudie Hall conducted an intense search of a home and vehicles on Great Marsh Road yesterday. They also questioned the home's owner, a married man who sources say had a relationship with the 23-year-old missing Nantucket woman and who police believe is the father of her unborn child.
Shortly before midnight Wednesday, the police descended on the home at 259 Great Marsh Road, according to sources with knowledge of the investigation. The police continued to search the two-story, Cape-style home yesterday morning, removing several brown paper bags sealed with red tape and towing away a white Nissan Armada as well as a black and red Ducati motorcycle.
A man listed as one of the home's owners, Quoizel Wilson, is the registered owner of a red 2008 Ducati motorcycle, according to motor vehicle records.
Wilson spent several hours at the Barnstable police station yesterday, but the police declined to comment on why he was there. He declined to comment on what he was doing at the police station when he left in a taxicab shortly after 2 p.m.
Law enforcement sources confirmed that the police are interested in Wilson's role in the case, but no one, including Wilson, has been identified publicly as a suspect.
Hall left Nantucket for Cape Cod on July 27, according to her family. She spoke to her mother that night but could not be reached by telephone the next day and has not been heard from since.
According to police sources, Hall stayed with her husband at the Bayside Resort in West Yarmouth prior to her disappearance. Although official sources have confirmed that Hall is married, the name of her husband was not available as of yesterday.
The police seized a rented 2009 Toyota Avalon July 30 and examined it for evidence at the Barnstable police station. The police searched several areas of Barnstable for 5½ hours Saturday but declined to release any new information, instead referring all questions to Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe.
O'Keefe so far has declined to say anything except that the police are investigating a missing-person case.
"We're working the case very hard," he said yesterday. "When there's something appropriate to release, we'll do it."
Neighbors yesterday described the Great Marsh Road house as quiet, though two women who live behind the home said there were a lot of people who came and went from the property. "I'm telling you, there's a lot of people in that house," one of the women said.
A canine officer who searched the area early yesterday morning told one of the women that he was looking for an "item," not a person, she said.
Another neighbor said that two female residents left the house in a taxi early yesterday morning.
Investigators examined the Armada under a white canopy in the driveway before having it towed away from the house. The Armada is registered to Ruby Lee Miller, 56, whose last known address, according to online public records, was in Rosedale, Miss.
A woman who said she was Miller hung up then did not pick up phone calls to a number listed in her name seeking comment yesterday.
Police officers at the house declined to comment, except to say their presence at the home was part of "an active investigation."
At about 8:45 a.m., investigators emerged from the house carrying brown paper bags, the kind generally used in evidence collection. A few hours later, a detective left the house carrying a pair of running shoes and a brown paper bag.
Man tied to case has criminal past
Quoizel Wilson is a former Nantucket resident, originally from Mississippi, with Rosedale among his former addresses. Until 2008 he worked as a manager for the Nantucket Regional Transportation Authority.
In November 2008, a Nantucket grand jury indicted him for allegedly stealing more than $8,000 from fare boxes on Nantucket. The indictment followed an investigation by the state Attorney General's Office that began in March 2008, when an island transportation official became suspicious about money missing from bus fare boxes. Investigators began monitoring the boxes; it is alleged that between July and September 2008 Wilson stole more than $8,000 from the boxes.
During his arrest in November 2008, the police found a loaded handgun in his unlocked car parked in his driveway, and he was charged with improper storage of a firearm.
In June 2009, he pleaded guilty to all charges in the case and received a two-year suspended sentence. He was required to pay back the $8,000 and a $500 fine for the firearm charge.
At one point, Wilson worked as a bouncer at The Muse nightclub on the island, according to an employee working there yesterday.
The Wilsons were members while living on Nantucket of the New Life Ministries International church, the same church Hall and her family attend.
The Rev. Donovan Kerr, who baptized Hall eight years ago, said the Wilsons were model citizens.
"My experience with (the Wilsons) has been positive. (Quoizel Wilson) is a wonderful person, very quiet, but I've never had any negative experiences," Kerr said.
Kerr said he doesn't recall any friction or animosity between Hall and the Wilsons.
Hall's mother, Vivienne Walker, vaguely remembers Wilson from church events, but he is not a close friend of the family, she said yesterday.
Walker expressed frustration during an interview in her Hatch Circle Cape-style home that her daughter is still missing. Her husband and four other children were nearby during the interview, and family photographs were scattered around the room.
Hall was preparing to enroll in a Florida nursing school when she became pregnant, Walker said. The plan was for Walker to raise the baby while Hall established a career, she said.
But while she knew her daughter was pregnant, Walker said she had no idea Hall was married, nor did she know the identity of her son-in-law. "I don't know anything about any of that," she said. "I didn't talk with my daughter about her personal business."
Walker said she is working with Kerr to set up a prayer vigil for Hall. She maintains that Hall's friends know more than they have let on and urged them to break their silence.
"I wish they'd just come out and say what they know," Walker said.
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