In 1991, a ten year old girl named Amber Garrett was murdered by thirty-one year old Jeffery Wogenstahl. Garrett’s cause of death was multiple stab wounds and blunt trauma to the head. The head wounds were caused by a car jack handle that police found in Wogenstahl’s car.

Over thirty years later, Wogenstahl has asked for a new trial instead of death row, which he has been awaiting for the past thirty years. “The Court upheld Wogenstahl’s death sentence for the 1991 murder and kidnapping of 10-year-old Amber Garrett of Harrison, Ohio, whose stabbed and beaten body was found just across the state border in Bright, Indiana.” (Dan Trevas)

In the original court documents, Wogenstahl was sentenced to the death penalty for his horrifying crime. In 2017, he unsuccessfully attempted to overrule his sentence when the supreme court denied his request. “The Supreme Court rejected Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s claim that R.C. 2901.11 (D), an Ohio law subjecting him to a trial in Hamilton County, was unconstitutional.” (Dan Trevas)

Wogenstahl is asking for a retrial because his attorney contended that Wogenstahl did not have access to evidence, and conflicted witness’s testimony that could have shown that he was innocent. “Throughout the course of those decades, more and more and more evidence has come forward,” said defense attorney Sarah Gelsomino. “Evidence that we uncovered just a mere matter of weeks ago from the Indiana State police, for the first time, we found these police reports, or they were finally given to us that impugn each of those eyewitness statements.” (WLWT Channel 5)