Davenport, IA- Attorneys have given closing arguments in the trial of a man accused of killing a 10-year-old girl.
Radio Iowa reports that Henry Dinkins is accused of kidnapping and murdering Breasia Terrell and dumping her body in a pond near Dewitt. Scott County Attorney Kelly Cunningham cited evidence of Dinkins buying bleach at a Walmart in Clinton, and soil samples from Dinkins’s vehicle linking him to the pond where the girl was found.
“The state asserts that Mr. Dinkins underestimated this child and realized that this child was not going to keep what happened between them a secret,” she said. “…He had to murder that child so that nobody would know he sexually abused that child.”
Dinkins’ lawyer Chad Frese says there is no DNA evidence linking him to the crime.
“This is not a ‘who done it.” This is ‘who proved it,'” Frese said. “…I find it ironic that there’s not one piece of physical evidence that can say ever that Henry Dinkins touched this girl in any way.”
Breasia Terrell was missing for nine months before her body was discovered by fishermen in a farm pond.
Dinkins waived his right to a jury trial and a judge will deliver the verdict in his case.
