Murder of Trisa Thornley

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The murder of Trisa Gail Thornley (July 27, 1969 – January 23, 1978) 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. (January 4, 1958 – May 4, 1989), 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. Adams's appeals were all dismissed and he was executed by the electric chair on May 4, 1989.

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