Murder of Lisa Rene

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Lisa Rene (1978 – September 26, 1994) was an American teenage girl who was kidnapped from her apartment in Texas, raped over the course of two days, and buried alive in Arkansas. She was kidnapped on September 24, 1994, by four men: 23-year-old Orlando Cordia Hall, 21-year-old Bruce Carneil Webster, 19-year-old Demetrius Kenyon Hall, and 22-year-old Steven Christopher Beckley. Another man, 23-year-old Marvin Terrance Holloway, did not directly participate in the crime, but was present at times and provided financial assistance to the group. The kidnapping was motivated by the fact that Rene's two brothers had swindled the group out of $4,700 in a drug deal. They had intended to take Rene's brothers, but took her instead since she was the only one at home at the time. The murder of Rene was the first capital case to be prosecuted by federal prosecutors after the signing of the Federal Death Penalty Act that year. It went into effect less than two weeks before her murder. Orlando Hall, considered...

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