Judge allows ATM card in as evidence in upcoming murder trial
Bennie Adams
YOUNGSTOWN — An ATM card belonging to a Youngstown State University student slain almost 23 years ago, which police found in the murder suspect’s jacket pocket, will be admissible as evidence in the suspect’s trial, a judge has ruled.
Judge Timothy E. Franken of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court today ruled that an ATM card that belonged to Gina Tenney will be admissible in the death penalty murder trial of Bennie L. Adams, which is scheduled to be Oct. 6.
Adams, 51, of Hollywood Avenue, is charged with aggravated murder with a death penalty specification in the Dec. 29, 1985, strangulation of the 19-year-old Tenney, who was then Adams’ upstairs neighbor in an Ohio Avenue duplex.
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