Deanna's Daydreamer
05-12-2009, 12:49 AM
Bennie Adams was sentenced to death for the 1985 kidnapping, rape and strangulation death of YSU Co-ed Gina Tenney. Adams was not arrested until October 2007, 22 years after Gina's murder. Gina's body was found
floating
in the Mahoning River
on December 30, 1985 by a muskrat trapper checking his traps in the freezing water.
Gina had graduated from Edgewood Senior High School in Ashtabula and was attending Youngstown State University at the time of her murder. Gina's father Lucian said, "I'll never forget that day. We had to sit there in the coroner's officer until midnight...she had been out of the water since early morning but they had to warm her up. When we saw her, she was pretty as a picture, like she was asleep." Gina's mother Avalon had last spoken with her daughter at 6:30 pm on December 29. Gina had told them she was on the way to meet a friend. Two weeks after Gina's body was discovered, the coroner ruled that her death was caused by asphyxiation. She had ligature marks on her neck and around her wrists. She had contusions all over her torso and her ankle was broken after she died. Authorities suspected Bennie Adams, who dated a girl who lived in the apartment below Gina's. However, forensic testing was not adequate at the time. Adams, then 28, was found in possession of Gina's bank card and her car keys were found in his trash can. However, Adams could not be definitively connected with the actual rape and murder. Additionally, the mate to a potholder from the downstairs apartment was found in Gina's apartment. Adams also had a television believed to be from Gina's apartment. He was charged with possession of stolen property but never went to trial. Gina's friends knew that Adams had been harassing her prior to the murder and said that Gina had changed her phone number to stop the calls. With the improvements in crime science, the Ohio Attorney General's office began a program allowing law enforcement agencies to resubmit cold cases for DNA testing. The detectives from Gina's murder had kept tabs on Adams over the years and jumped at the opportunity to check on his possible involvement in the case. Adams was a registered sex offender after being released in 2004 after spending 18 years in prison for the rape, kidnapping and robbery of a school principal in 1985. D-N-A samples taken from Adams, 50 years old on the day he was arrested, tested positive as a match to the DNA found on Gina's body and clothing. The rape kit had been preserved for over two decades. After Adams was convicted in October 2008, Gina's sister Gliva said, “I always wanted a brother or sister, so when Gina was born, I was thrilled. I will always miss her. There’s not a day that goes by I don’t think of her. And I want everyone to know what a wonderful, wonderful person Gina was. She was vivacious, bubbly, the most loving, gracious, giving, caring person, and I will miss her until the day I die.” The detectives who investigated the case were happy to finally find justice for Gina's family. “It’s a day that we’ve thought about for many years. We’ve never lost sight of who Gina Tenney is and who Gina Tenney could have been. We reflect today that she would have been 42 years old today,” said Capt. Kenneth Centorame, chief of detectives. “As we remember Gina, this will be something that we can fall back on,” Gina’s father Lucian said of the verdict. “We visit her grave just about every day. And a lot of people say that’s odd. But it’s a place to go and reflect on our life and on Gina’s life, and we loved her very much,” he said, adding that she worked and studied hard. “We know she’s at home now. ... She was — and deserved to be — happy today,” he added. There are still appeals pending and the execution is not expected to take place on this date.
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For every leftist woman who feels like NO ONE SHOULD keep this criminal in three hot meals and a cot?
Well, child............? You are LATE to the freakin' PARTY.
And you have NO IDEA.................. what we (in the victims rights movement) have seen.
floating
in the Mahoning River
on December 30, 1985 by a muskrat trapper checking his traps in the freezing water.
Gina had graduated from Edgewood Senior High School in Ashtabula and was attending Youngstown State University at the time of her murder. Gina's father Lucian said, "I'll never forget that day. We had to sit there in the coroner's officer until midnight...she had been out of the water since early morning but they had to warm her up. When we saw her, she was pretty as a picture, like she was asleep." Gina's mother Avalon had last spoken with her daughter at 6:30 pm on December 29. Gina had told them she was on the way to meet a friend. Two weeks after Gina's body was discovered, the coroner ruled that her death was caused by asphyxiation. She had ligature marks on her neck and around her wrists. She had contusions all over her torso and her ankle was broken after she died. Authorities suspected Bennie Adams, who dated a girl who lived in the apartment below Gina's. However, forensic testing was not adequate at the time. Adams, then 28, was found in possession of Gina's bank card and her car keys were found in his trash can. However, Adams could not be definitively connected with the actual rape and murder. Additionally, the mate to a potholder from the downstairs apartment was found in Gina's apartment. Adams also had a television believed to be from Gina's apartment. He was charged with possession of stolen property but never went to trial. Gina's friends knew that Adams had been harassing her prior to the murder and said that Gina had changed her phone number to stop the calls. With the improvements in crime science, the Ohio Attorney General's office began a program allowing law enforcement agencies to resubmit cold cases for DNA testing. The detectives from Gina's murder had kept tabs on Adams over the years and jumped at the opportunity to check on his possible involvement in the case. Adams was a registered sex offender after being released in 2004 after spending 18 years in prison for the rape, kidnapping and robbery of a school principal in 1985. D-N-A samples taken from Adams, 50 years old on the day he was arrested, tested positive as a match to the DNA found on Gina's body and clothing. The rape kit had been preserved for over two decades. After Adams was convicted in October 2008, Gina's sister Gliva said, “I always wanted a brother or sister, so when Gina was born, I was thrilled. I will always miss her. There’s not a day that goes by I don’t think of her. And I want everyone to know what a wonderful, wonderful person Gina was. She was vivacious, bubbly, the most loving, gracious, giving, caring person, and I will miss her until the day I die.” The detectives who investigated the case were happy to finally find justice for Gina's family. “It’s a day that we’ve thought about for many years. We’ve never lost sight of who Gina Tenney is and who Gina Tenney could have been. We reflect today that she would have been 42 years old today,” said Capt. Kenneth Centorame, chief of detectives. “As we remember Gina, this will be something that we can fall back on,” Gina’s father Lucian said of the verdict. “We visit her grave just about every day. And a lot of people say that’s odd. But it’s a place to go and reflect on our life and on Gina’s life, and we loved her very much,” he said, adding that she worked and studied hard. “We know she’s at home now. ... She was — and deserved to be — happy today,” he added. There are still appeals pending and the execution is not expected to take place on this date.
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For every leftist woman who feels like NO ONE SHOULD keep this criminal in three hot meals and a cot?
Well, child............? You are LATE to the freakin' PARTY.
And you have NO IDEA.................. what we (in the victims rights movement) have seen.