Hell and Gone Murder Line: Hannah Truelove [From the Archives]

Hell and Gone Murder Line: Hannah Truelove [From the Archives]

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August 13, 2026 · 28 min · Season 7 · Episode 41

About this episode

The episode discusses the murder of 16-year-old Hannah Truelove, who was found dead in Gainesville, Georgia.

On August 24, 2012, a Vietnam veteran who had been staying at the Lake Lanier Club Apartments off Dawsonville Highway in Gainesville, Georgia with his daughter and grandchildren, was taking a walk through the woods behind the complex. The man liked taking nature walks, and he was also following up on a report that he had made to the apartment management about a missing manhole cover. He later told police that he wanted to see if it had been replaced yet.  It was around 7:30 pm in the evening, and still almost  full daylight, and when the man paused near a stream bed, he saw something disturbing...something that he at first thought was a mannequin. Upon closer inspection, he realized that he was looking at a dead body. He called 911 and told them that a young lady, about 18 or 19 years old, was dead and looked like she had been dead for two or three days.  The young woman was 16-year-old Hannah Truelove, a student at Gainesville High School. She had been missing since the night before. And even though her exact cause of death has not been revealed, police said she died a “violent death." She had been stabbed multiple times and left in the stream bed a quarter…

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