What the records say
- When
- 1978
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 39.83° N, 98.58° W
- Description
- 1978 abduction and murder of a young girl in Florida
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Murder of Trisa Thornley
1978 abduction and murder of a young girl in Florida
The murder of Trisa Gail Thornley occurred in Ocala, Florida, on January 23, 1978. Trisa, then an eight-year-old third grade student, was abducted and murdered by her family friend, a prison officer named Aubrey Dennis Adams Jr., and her body was found two months later in a remote forest in March 1978. Adams was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death on January 16, 1979.
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