Sentenced: Mother, Partner Arrested After Missing 8YO Gwinnett Girl Found Dead In Wooded Area

[Sugar Cookie]

Early Sunday, a woman called Gwinnett County police to say she couldn’t find her 8-year-old daughter. The little girl, who wore glasses, was last seen in her Tweety Bird jacket and blue and white pajamas, her mother said.

But investigators don’t believe Nicole Amari Hall was ever missing.

Instead, it was Brittany Nicole Hall, Amari’s mother, who later told investigators where the child might be. On Tuesday morning, Amari’s body was found in a wooded area of a DeKalb County neighborhood about 15 miles from the hotel where the family was living, Gwinnett police Chief J.D. McClure said.

Brittany Hall and her partner have both been charged in the case, with the partner facing a murder charge.

Brittany Hall was living with her three children and partner, Celeste Owens, according to police. Around 9:15 a.m. Sunday, Hall called authorities to report Amari missing.

Hall told investigators Amari had last been seen between midnight and 1 a.m. Sunday. And the mother said she was particularly worried because Amari had autism and was new to the area.

Investigators immediately launched a search to find the girl, going door to door at the hotel, McClure said. By noon Sunday, Gwinnett police had released to the media a photo of the girl, wearing a white tank top and pigtails. Anyone who had information about Amari’s whereabouts was asked to contact police.

But they quickly realized the mother’s statements, along with statements from Owens, didn’t match the information officers were gathering during their investigation.

“We compared statements that we had gotten from Brittany Hall and also her partner, Celeste Owens,” McClure said. “We compared those statements and recognized those statements were indeed false.”

McClure declined to speculate about a motive in the case. He said an autopsy, conducted by the Gwinnett County medical examiner, will provide more details about how Amari died and how long her body may have been in the woods near Juliet Drive and Stone Mill Trace in the Tucker area.

“I can’t speculate on why they reported her as missing,” McClure said. “But our investigation revealed Amari was not, in fact, missing. Very early in the investigation, we began to suspect foul play.”

On Sunday night, Owens was arrested and charged with six counts of first-degree cruelty to children and making false statements, jail records show. Her charges were upgraded Tuesday to include murder, concealing a death, and a seventh count of child cruelty, according to jail records.

Late Monday, the girl’s mother was arrested and charged with making false statements, false report of a crime and five counts of first-degree cruelty to children, jail records show. Hall is also expected to be charged with concealing a death, McClure said.

The cruelty to children charges stem from an incident at another hotel where the family previously lived, McClure said. Gwinnett investigators had not previously been called to investigate a case involving Hall or Owens, he said.

Both Owens and Hall were being held without bond Tuesday afternoon.

Mother, partner arrested after 8-year-old Gwinnett girl found dead

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Two other kids, a 6-year-old and a 5-year-old, living with couple were removed by police and are now in the custody of Georgia’s Division of Family and Children’s Services, authorities said.

Mom charged with child cruelty after missing 8-year-old is found dead, Georgia cops say

Nicole Amari Hall, who had autism, was reported missing early Sunday.

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[cubby]

Poor little kids.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

She looked like such a sweet little kid.

 

[FrayedKnot]

The most shocking thing is that they had not eaten her.

 

[Jellyfish Brain]

I always get a twisted gut thinking how their siblings seen this abuse (if not also suffered it) and how they most likely seen the finishing blows, their dead sibling, and the confusion after they are gone and never came back. I hope the surviving children never have to see these monsters again.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A Gwinnett County jury has found the woman accused of killing her partner’s 8-year-old daughter guilty of her murder.

Amari Hall disappeared in 2021 and police later found her body in a wooded area of DeKalb County.

Channel 2 Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Matt Johnson was at the courthouse for the trial, where prosecutors presented their closing arguments with chilling language.

Prosecutors said Celeste Ownes dumped the body of Amari Hall like she was garbage and called the abuse that went on “barbaric.”

Now, the jury is deciding whether she’s guilty of malice murder, child cruelty and 19 other charges.

Owens chose not to testify in her defense before the murder case went to the jury on Friday afternoon.

“This defendant was directly abusing not just Amari but all of the children,” said Gwinnett County prosecutor Sabrina Nizam during closing arguments. “The defendant helped beat the living life out of Amari.”

Gwinnett Co. jury finds woman guilty of murdering 8-year-old girl

A Gwinnett County jury is deliberating in a murder case against a woman accused of murdering her partner’s 8-year-old daughter.

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[Freyja]

I am sure these two Jabba the Hut impersonators have gotten even fatter after a few years in county awaiting trial. However in this case, they probably lived in one of those squalid Hell-on-Earth jail cells that has been reported in Georgia in recent years.

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

I am sure these two Jabba the Hut impersonators have gotten even fatter after a few years in county awaiting trial. However in this case, they probably lived in one of those squalid Hell-on-Earth jail cells that has been reported in Georgia in recent years.

Let’s hope they did.

 

[Symmachus]

Outside of the hairstyle and head tilt, I can't tell the difference between these two individuals of cheap cryptozoological interest.

They'd both blend in with the below picture.

EDIT: I know that many of these planets were named after Johannes Kepler, who was a pioneering astronomer of the Renaissance period, whose contemporaries included Tycho Brahe and Galileo Galilei. So yeah, I'm informed about stuff and things and ya'll need to calm down about all dat, mmkay?

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The jury took less than two hours to convict Celeste Owens of killing Nicole Amari Hall in November 2021. Judge Angela Duncan then sentenced Owens to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 235 years. Duncan called the crimes “the most heinous evil that I have ever seen” in her career.

Woman gets life for murdering girlfriend’s 8-year-old found in trash bag

Nicole Amari Hall was reported missing from Gwinnett County hotel in November 2021.

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[The All Seeing Eye]

During the trial, the MOM swore to tell the trooff the whole trooff and nuffin but d troof

 

[The All Seeing Eye]

Look at the women.."Eyes Are Windows Into The Soul"

 

[Sugar Cookie]

September 24, 2025

According to the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office, Brittany Hall pleaded guilty to murder, 11 counts of cruelty to children, concealing the death of another, and making false statements.

A judge sentenced her to life in prison.

Hall’s daughter, Amari Hall, was beaten to death in 2021. Investigators found her body in a wooded area in DeKalb County days after Hall reported her missing.

According to Gwinnett County police, investigators began to suspect foul play due to inconsistencies in the women's statements. After gathering evidence, officers arrested Hall and Owens, and say that Hall told them where they could find her daughter's body.

Prosecutors said Hall and her girlfriend, Celeste Owens, acted together in the abuse.

Prosecutors said they found Google searches on Owens' phone that included, "What to do when a child just doesn’t listen", "Lakes near me", "How do sewers on the streets work", "Why do kids run away", "How do I report someone missing", and "U-Haul: Customer Account." Police also said the couple was caught on a "nanny-cam" beating all three of their children.

The two other children were put into state custody.

In December 2024, a jury found Owens guilty of murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, child cruelty, and other charges. A judge sentenced her to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 235 years.

Amari Hall murder: Mother sentenced to life in prison

Brittany Hall pleaded guilty to murder and several other crimes in connection with the murder of her daughter, according to prosecutors, and was sentenced to life in prison.

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This fucking cow looks to damn happy

NAME: OWENS, CELESTE ALEXANDRIA​

INCARCERATION DETAILS​

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: PULASKI STATE PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: LIFE, W/O PAROLE

STATE OF GEORGIA - CURRENT SENTENCES​

CASE NO: 940348
OFFENSE: FALSE STATEMENTS GOVT
CONVICTION COUNTY: GWINNETT COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 11/21/2021
SENTENCE LENGTH: 5 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS

CASE NO: 940348
OFFENSE: CONCEAL DEATH OF ANOTHER
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CRIME COMMIT DATE: 11/19/2021
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CASE NO: 940348
OFFENSE: CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
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CASE NO: 940348
OFFENSE: CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
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CASE NO: 940348
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SENTENCE LENGTH: 20 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS

CASE NO: 940348
OFFENSE: CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
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SENTENCE LENGTH: 20 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS

CASE NO: 940348
OFFENSE: CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
CONVICTION COUNTY: GWINNETT COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 07/20/2021
SENTENCE LENGTH: 20 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS

CASE NO: 940348
OFFENSE: CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
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CRIME COMMIT DATE: 07/20/2021
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STATE OF GEORGIA - PRIOR SENTENCES​

STATE OF GEORGIA - INCARCERATION HISTORY​

INCARCERATION BEGIN: 12/30/2024

INCARCERATION END: ACTIVE