IN WEST HARRISON, IN Even after more than thirty years, Robert Garrett was still in pain. He was thinking about the “what ifs” all the time.
“She was very attractive. She was an avid churchgoer. When she could, she gave folks a hand. She used to visit and socialize with them at the police station. Garrett added, ‘She had wanted to be a police officer.
Amber Garrett’s daughter was killed in 1991. She was found dumped by the side of the road in a forested location near West Harrison, Indiana, after suffering seven stab wounds.
Garrett asked, “Why?” “What action did she take? She was ten years old.
Carol Wert, Garrett’s long-term lover, remarked, “It tears me up.” “To think that a mature guy slaughtered a tiny child, threw her over the hillside, and covered her body with a log to conceal it. Who takes that action? Who carries that out?”
Jeffrey Wogenstahl, the man found guilty of Amber’s murder, has been detained on Ohio’s death row since 1993.
Wogenstahl now requested that the conviction be overturned. He claimed the state had not shown that he killed Amber in Ohio.
Garrett remarked, “It just brings everything back again.” “It begins anew on the first day. The question was never addressed. Why not?”
Wert apologized, “but there hasn’t been any justice.” “I wish for his demise. The truth is, I wish for his demise.”
On Tuesday morning, the Ohio Supreme Court will hear oral arguments from representatives of Wogenstahl and the prosecutor for Hamilton County.
