In 2004, Hall's sister Renate was murdered following bouts of domestic violence. While initially officers informed Hall's family of their certainty of her attacker's identity, that person was not charged and the case remains unsolved. During an interview at the Television Critics Association in January 2014, Hall described receiving the call that her sister had been found dead, noting that in hindsight there were many signals of domestic abuse, but that she did nothing to intervene, and also partly blames herself for the death of her sister.