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Above is a photograph of Tina Resch, who in 1984 captured national attention when a series of unexplained events - alleged by many as spontaneous telekinesis - tormented her Columbus, Ohio family in their home. The coverage included a series of color photographs that were taken by newspaper photojournalist Fred Shannon of The Columbus Dispatch, which showed her sitting in an armchair with a telephone handset and flexible cable in flight in front of her from left to right.
The story lost some of its credibility when a video camera that had accidentally been left on by a visiting television station crew revealed Tina knocking over a lamp, an event that had been ascribed to the poltergeist.
In 1992, as an adult with the divorced name of Christina Boyer, she was jailed, along with a boyfriend of only a few months, for allegedly being responsible for the death of her three-year-old daughter, who was in the sole custody of the boyfriend at the time. She did not have a trial, but in October 1994 accepted a plea bargain to avoid the possibility of a death penalty.