Guys,

Do you remember a case that was profiled on Unsolved Mysteries about Tina Resch? She was the girl that was adopted at a young age by an Ohio couple. When she was a teenager one morning in 1984, objects in the home started moving by themselves. Appliances and light-switches turned on and off automatically. Items would be thrown around the room without warning. The strange thing was that the incidents only seemed to occur when Tina was in the room.

A famous photo that made all the papers in 1984, shows Tina in a chair as a telephone flies accross the room. Tina was taken for testing to several nurologists and it was determined though a CAT-Scan that she had a high amount of electrical (kinetic) energy being recorded in her brain, which some believed was responsible for her telekinetic activities. (The ability to move or levitate objects at will.)

Skeptics say it was a hoax. If it was a hoax, how can you explain the ability to do what she did? (The "flying telephone" debate continues to this day.) I know that she did prison time for the murder of her 3 year old daughter. What were the circumstances involving that? I also know that Tina has since died. What did she die of. Did the "telekinetic activity" eventually stop or just lesson in activity till she died? Any new info would be great!

Jack

It's Tina Resch. I just did a Google search for her name and it mentions the murder of her 3 year daughter, but I haven't found any article that mentions Tina's death. Where did you hear that Jack?

On October 25th, 1994, Tina (Tina Boyer) pleaded guilty in the beating death of her 3-year-old daughter. She plead guilty to avoid the death penalty before the case went to trial before a jury. She received a life sentence.

I found some info about her a year ago on the Net, and the article said "The late Tina Resch" so I was wondering what she died of.


Jack

"Newspapers around the world exclaimed that a genuine poltergeist phenomenon was being witnessed in the presence of Tina Resch, a fourteen year old girl from Columbus, Ohio.(1) The newspaper the Columbus Dispatch told of flying telephones, loud explosions, and moving and falling lamps. The para-psychologist, William Roll, who specializes in poltergeist investigations attested to its authenticity.


The excitement continued until a video camera from a visiting TV crew was inadvertently left on and caught Tina pulling over lamps and displacing objects when she thought she was being unobserved. The other dramatic occurrences were discovered to have been the inventions of the press or highly exaggerated descriptions of quite explainable events.


Upon further investigation it was uncovered that Tina was adopted and wanted to discover her true parents. she used the media attention as an instrument to that end. When her mischief was discovered her case faded from the public. An obviously disturbed mind, in 1994 she was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her three year old daughter. "


http://mtskeptics.homestead.com/Polterevent.html

From the Ranid Geller webpage: Tina Boyer (formerly Tina Resch) was the famous
"Columbus Poltergeist" who in 1984 made news all over the world when
telephones and other objects began flying all over her home, apparently by
spirit forces. I was invited, by the local press and by her parents, to
visit there and look into the phenomena. When I arrived I was turned away
at the door at the insistence of William Roll, a parapsychologist who
specializes in "poltergesit" claims, who had by then taken up residence at
the Resch home and was having a grand time hyperbolizing the events for the
media.
My investigation thus turned to the photographic evidence, and I managed
-- by scurrilous means -- to obtain copies of ALL the photos in the 36-
exposure frame taken by Fred Shannon, the photographer from the Columbus
Dispatch. In the other frames was the solution to the "mystery." The
Dispatch had chosen to ignore the evidence that was right before them, and
were daily running highly positive accounts that supported Tina's wild
supernatural claims.
She was discredited, though not to Roll, who continued to study her and
to encourage the hoax she had perpetrated.
On October 25th, 1994, Tina pleaded guilty in the beating death of her 3-
year-old daughter.
We must ask ourselves whether a proper investigation of the claims that
brought this woman to world attention, which might have deprived her of the
celebrity status that she attained through support by the "scientists" and
media who encouraged her, might have brought her to a healthier state of
mind and adult lifestyle. Such an unhappy child, discovering that she could
so easily manipulate the media, becomes an adult who is not in a position to
make appropriate choices in life.
Tina had already started her life in an awkward manner, being an adopted
child who wanted desperately to find her birth parents, was being blocked in
that attempt, and then pulled the "poltergeist" stunt to attract the media's
help. She used them -- and the parapsychologists -- but to no avail. To be
perfectly fair, the media and the parapsychologists used her, too. She went
from one disastrous situation to the other, finally to two marriages and two
divorces, then to the present sentence of life in prison for torturing and
killing her own daughter.
The blame for this tragedy must be shared by those who promoted the
media circus that Tina began.

I dont want to look like a closed-mind skeptic but if we thought of examples of this so-called paranormal events, most of them fade away from the media attention without a final conclusion. What usually happen is that there was actually a final conclusion: hoax, but the media never present this, maybe they dont want to look fooled or maybe they want to keep them like "mysteries" to fuel public believing and have a pretty source of news when real news are scarce.

Zoiks! You unsolved fans are awesome with the research! I had no idea that girl was convicted of murdering her own little girl! I totally remember that episode and thinking that if a photographer was right THERE it had to be real. I am disappointed to learn it was a hoax (and that she is a murderer).:((

Her case has a number of elements in common with those detailed here: http://www.ghosts.org/moremongoose.html

Everything I found about her online says that she's still in prison (not dead) for the murder of her daughter.

If you can believe what you read on the interwebs, her 3 year old daughter was sodomized and beaten to death by Tina's boyfriend of 2 months, while Tina was at a friend's house. The boyfriend admitted to police that he had sodomized the toddler twice but said that she must have died due to Tina slapping her too hard before she left the house that day.

Tina says that she had discovered old bruises on her daughter, but didn't take her to the doctor because she feared that child protective services would take the girl away from her. The boyfriend explained the bruises away by saying that the child fell.

Tina then left her daughter in the boyfriend's care for 6 hours, on the day of her death, so that she and her friend could write a book about Tina's telekinesis experiences.

The boyfriend is due to be released from prison in 2011 or 2012. Tina took an Alford plea to avoid the chance of being sentenced to the death penalty. Her supporters say that her public defender was overworked and didn't spend any time with Tina discussing her case. They allege that he only wanted to keep his record of never having a client sentenced to death by talking Tina into taking the plea.

Tina spent 2 1/2 years in prison awaiting a trial that never happened. They also say that she took and passed a polygraph test just prior to receiving her sentence for murder, and that the polygraph results showing that she was innocent were entered into the court record.

That's awful. Shouldn't she be convicted of a lesser crime, such as negligence, rather than murder, and given credit for time served? Sounds like a good "final appeal" case.

God, just reading about the poor little girl being sodomized by that monster makes me (literally) sick to my stomach. I have an almost six year old son, and hearing anything about children being hurt just really upsets me.

Why is it we have the death penalty for murderers but a man that rapes a 3 yr old child will eventually be let back out into society? (the rehabilitation rate for pedophiles is really low, so he will probably re-offend) That guy should get life in prision w/o parole. People like that don't deserve to live in society.

Dear Folks-
Please read up on Tina's case by googling Tina Resch Boyer and reading what James Conrad has posted.
What TracyLynnS says is absolutely correct.
I have personally contacted Tina and am actively working to get this victim of outrageous and horrendous circumstances freed.
I appeal to all of you who have expressed an interest here to get involved. I can assure you first hand that she never sought media attention and that her paranormal case was genuine. My friend who got me involved in this case collaborated with Dr Roll before his death.
Tina was coerced into signing the Alford plea. She was medicated, grieving, alone. The monster who did this to her child was convicted of NEGLECT and has already been freed after serving a 20 year sentence. He is on the streets of Carrolton, Georgia, while she, the victim, is serving life+20. As a mother, I can imagine nothing more devastating than the loss of a child - to lose your child at the hand of a man you thought loved you both, her boyfriend, learning that he had sodomized the child repeatedly before delivering a fatal blow to the head - goes far beyond anything I could possibly imagine.
Please, please, please, do anything in your power to help this poor woman. Currently we are trying to find a pro-bono lawyer to take her case - after 20 years, most anyone she knew on the outside has since died: the parapsychologist, her lawyer....
Her adoptive family was abusive, so whether any of them are still alive is immaterial since she wisely severed contact with them by moving to Georgia.
She is alone in the world. She has us, her virtual community, active in the Free Tina movement and her cellmates, who, she reports, are often woman whose children have died so she feels that God has put her there to be able to offer them comfort and comprehension.
You can write to her directly, write to the Georgia Parole Board, join our Facebook group to keep abreast of the actions we are taking.
Thank you for you concern!

Tina threw the phone in the pic.If it had really just flown on it's own (which is not possible due to the laws of nature),it would have startled her,and her hands would have reflexively went up across her chest.
Also the eggs did not come thru the fridge door.another impossible feat.I think Tina simply threw them when her mother wasn't looking.
I do give her parents credit,they did try to figure out if this was really something that could happen.