NATION : Ex-Guard Executed for Girl’s Death
A former prison guard convicted of the grisly sex murder of an 8-year-old girl 11 years ago was executed today in Florida’s electric chair as the victim’s family waited outside.
Aubrey Dennis Adams, 31, was executed for murdering Trisa Thornley on Jan. 23, 1978. The Ocala third-grader was last seen alive on her way home from school and her body was found naked and mutilated in a plastic bag March 15, 1978, by hunters about 3 miles from her home. Trisa’s wrists had been taped together behind her head and her lower jaw was missing. After an obscene phone call to the girl’s home was traced to his telephone,Adams confessed to killing and trying to sexually molest her.
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