Glen Burnie man allegedly confessed to girlfriend he killed missing Hagerstown man

The Glen Burnie, Md. man charged with the murder of a Hagerstown resident who disappeared in late May allegedly admitted to his girlfriend that he killed the Hub City man who was his business partner, according to charging documents.

"He tried to tell on me before I caught him," "I had no choice," and "I am a very bad man" were among the texts detectives found on the woman's phone from her boyfriend, Boisey Levern Neal, according to charging documents filed by Prince George's County Police.

The girlfriend allegedly told detectives that Neal called her and disclosed he had killed Shawn Eric Hall, according to the charging documents.

Hall, 59, was reported missing to Hagerstown Police on June 1, with police finding calls from May 29 to June 1 requesting welfare checks on Hall, according to court records. Among those requests was one from his employer, Tractor Supply, because Hall didn't show up for work.

Hagerstown and Prince George's police, with help from at least one other agency, have been investigating Hall's death since.

On Wednesday, Prince George's County police detectives found skeletal remains in the 13300 block of Old Marlboro Pike, west of Upper Marlboro, that authorities believe are Hall's, according to news releases from both police departments. The belief that the remains were Hall's is based on the "evidence collected at the scene as well as findings of HPD's extensive missing persons investigation," the releases state.

Neal, 57, is charged with the first- and second-degree murder of Hall as well as with manslaughter and first- and second-degree assault, according to charging documents.

An autopsy will determine Hall's cause of death, the release said.

A motive for the murder remains under investigation.

Neal was being held without bond Friday at a corrections facility.

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Prince George's County police said Hagerstown Police contacted them in early June for help in locating Hall. The Hagerstown Police Department’s preliminary investigation indicated Hall traveled to Upper Marlboro around the time of his disappearance.

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After Hall was reported missing, Hagerstown Police went to his home in the neighborhood of Pangborn Elementary School and found Hall's driver's license in a closet. A neighbor reported seeing Hall leaving in a hurry around 10:30 p.m. on May 28 in his red Ford Fusion, charging documents state.

A Hagerstown detective, using cellphone data, determined Hall left Hagerstown that night around 11:50 p.m. and drove to Upper Marlboro, which is southeast of Washington, D.C. Phone records indicate Hall arrived shortly after 1 a.m. and stayed in the area for over three hours.

Hall's cellphone pinged from a tower east of the 13300 block of Old Marlboro Pike and then west of the road around 4:30 a.m., according to court records. Hagerstown Police detectives searched for the Fusion in the area with the help of an Upper Marlboro Police Department sergeant but did not find the car.

Using a license tag reader data, Prince George's County Police found the car in the area of the 3900 block of Southern Avenue in Suitland, Md. The car was towed back to Hagerstown for processing. The carpet had been removed from the car's trunk and a large butcher knife, about 8 inches long, was found on the trunk frame, court records state. No blood was observed in the car.

Through interviews, police learned Hall was a former prison chaplain who became friends with a man identified as Boisey Oshi. Hall's roommate told police that Boisey told Hall while in prison that he would "look after" Hall, charging documents state. When Boisey was released from prison, he and Hall became business partners and were starting a vehicle transporting business.

Police identified Boisey as Boisey Lavern Neal.

Detectives follow bank card and phone data

A Hagerstown detective kept in contact with Hall's son and sister, the latter of whom had retrieved Hall's laptop from his home and found bank card charges to several businesses in the Upper Marlboro area as well as the region. Those charges were made after Hall went missing.

With the help of Anne Arundel County Police, a Hagerstown detective was able to get camera footage from a liquor store that showed another man and a woman using Hall's bank card. Those people would later be identified as Neal and his girlfriend, according to charging documents for Neal.

Hall's sister continued to find information on his laptop that she shared with police, including that Hall searched for directions for an Old Marlboro Pike address that turned out to be a vehicle rental and transportation company, which police stated coincides with the business Hall and Neal were starting, according to court records.

Hagerstown Police learned Hall had a second vehicle, a white 2021 Dodge Ram 3500, supposedly purchased for the business, court records state. Friends and family told police they never saw Hall drive the truck and that it was primarily used by Neal.

The pickup had been repossessed and was found at a recovery service in Glen Burnie. The repossession order listed Hall's name with a Glen Burnie address tied to Neal as well as receipts dated after Hall's disappearance that involved the bank card Neal used at the liquor store.

Hall's sister also received multiple parking tickets for the truck, including ones where the truck was only a few blocks from where the Fusion was found, charging documents state.

Murder victim and suspect allegedly meet in Upper Marlboro area parking lot

Detectives found store video footage of the Old Marlboro Pike parking lot that show the Fusion arriving and parking on May 29 with a white male driver. The car was there around 1:30 a.m. on May 29 by the gate with its lights on. Hall is white.

There are gaps in the video due to motion activation.

Around 2:22 a.m. what appears to be the Dodge Ram arrives at the parking lot, charging documents state. Phone records show Hall and Neal were in that area at the time and investigators believe Neal arrived to meet Hall, according to charging documents.

Shortly after 4 a.m. on May 29, the person driving the Fusion leaves the car idling and gets into the pickup and parks it, charging documents state. That person gets out of the pickup's driver's side and locks the truck before the video cuts off.

The last outgoing call on Hall's phone was at 2:36 a.m. on May 29 to a number registered to a third man, according to charging documents. Police note that the phone number did not appear in the rest of Hall's phone records, but appeared multiple times in Neal's phone records. Both Neal and the man associated with the phone number knew each other and disconnected service to their phone numbers after Hall went missing, getting new phone numbers, charging documents state.

The Suitland address associated with the third man is about 620 feet from where the Fusion was found with the carpet removed, charging documents state.

Police found no evidence of life after Hall traveled to the address in the 13300 block of Old Marlboro Pike to meet Neal, charging documents state.

Evidence indicates Neal killed Hall in the area of that address and used Hall's phone to call the third man for help in disposing the body and car, charging documents state.

No charges could be found this morning for the third man via the state's online docket website.

On Aug. 23, detectives found Neal and his girlfriend staying at a Glen Burnie motel, executed a search warrant and took them both for questioning, charging documents state.

Neal allegedly changed his story multiple times, initially saying he last saw Hall about a week before Hall was reported missing and that Hall gave him the bank card, charging documents state. Later, Neal allegedly told police he took Hall's bank card from Hall's house the day after he went missing. But police noted that Hall never returned home after meeting with Neal and earlier in the charging documents state Hall used his bank card at a Hagerstown Sheetz on the way to Upper Marlboro. There was video of Hall at the gas station.

Neal allegedly told police the two met in the Old Marlboro Pike parking lot in the early hours of May 29 and were drinking in the Fusion, charging documents state.

Police interviewed Neal's girlfriend and learned of the texts and Neal's confession to her, court records state.

This article originally appeared on The Herald-Mail: Upper Marlboro skeletal remains appear to be of Hagerstown missing man