Thursday, December 16, 2010

Fairview, UT: Fairview man gets prison for crimes linked to wife’s death

BY STEPHEN HUNT
The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Dec 15, 2010 09:08PM
Updated 7 hours ago
A 73-year-old Fairview man suspected of causing the death last year of his 65-year-old wife was sent to prison this month for other related crimes.

Ronald Leroy Hall was arrested last year on suspicion of killing Vivian L. Hall, but he was never charged with a homicide.

Last week, a 6th District judge sentenced Ronald Hall to prison for up to five years for falsely obtaining a prescription, assault and domestic violence in the presence of a child.

Hall admitted striking his wife the night before she fell into a coma, but authorities could not prove the blow caused the woman’s death three weeks later at a hospital.

Hall struck his wife on Sept. 6, 2009, and she died Sept. 26.

He was arrested Oct. 30 after a relative called police to report she suspected foul play, which prompted police to interview others who were in the home the night the couple fought.

Hall struck his wife with an open hand hard enough to bruise her left eye, and the next morning she was unresponsive, according to a probable cause statement filed by police in 6th District Court.

Ronald Hall and his ex-daughter-in-law, Debbie Hall, called for an ambulance. Vivian Hall was taken to Sanpete Valley Hospital, then flown to a Salt Lake City hospital.

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