Hall was the commander of the OPP's Special Squad, which targeted outlaw biker gangs, and was the lead investigator in the Port Hope 8 case, in which six members of Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club were controversially convicted of murder.
[5] The most important informer working for Hall was Garnet "Mother" McEwen, the president of the Satan's Choice St. Catharines chapter.
[7] Hall accused the Kitchener chapter of Satan's Choice of "the manufacture and sale of illegal drugs, prostitution, gambling, murder and other violence for pay, counterfeit money and bogus-check rings, and the fencing of valuable stolen goods".
[7] The story in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record was part of a media offensive waged by the Special Squad intended to secure a larger budget as Hall served as the primary source for a number of articles that appeared in newspapers in Ontario in 1977 and 1978 that painted a lucid picture of the outlaw biker gangs.
[8] Hall obtained even more success with a story in Maclean's magazine in July 1977 by Kessell and Schenk entitled "Born to Raise Hell Inc", which he again served as the main source for, which started with the by-line: "The outlaw motorcycle gangs are North America's newest and most overlooked form of organized crime".
[9] Hall called the Maclean's story "our first big break", which led to the Ontario government drastically increasing the budget for the Special Squad.
[3] On the night of 18 October 1978, Hall led a police raid on the clubhouse of the Kitchener chapter of Satan's Choice on Weber Street, of which he knocked down the door and damaged the lock.
[10] During the raid, words were exchanged with the treasurer of the Kitchener chapter, David Hoffman, whom Hall was to charge with conspiracy to commit murder in December.
[13] Hall began his investigation by following around Richard Sauvé and Gordon van Haarlem, whom he considered to be prime suspects in the murder of William Matiyek.
[19] Hall testified as an expert witness for the Crown, saying that Satan's Choice was the second largest biker gang in Ontario with about 75 members.
[26] On the basis of Hall's statements, Justice Osborne sentenced four of the Port Hope 8 to life imprisonment with a chance for parole after 10 years.
[1] In his retirement, he served as a member of the Aylmer Shrine Club, the Royal Order of Jesters and the Maladhide Masonic Lodge.