Unleashed: Of Poltergeists and Murder: The Curious Story of Tina Resch

One scientists account of the poltergeist case that made headlines across the country -- and the riveting examination of a childs mysterious murder. . When she was just fourteen years old Tina Resch became the center of the best-documented case of poltergeist activity of the twentieth century. During the spring of 1984 Tinas home in Ohio was thrown into chaos: appliances turned themselves on without electric current objects flew through the air furniture scooted across the floor. Censured endlessly by her adoptive family and thrust into the eye of a media twister thanks to one reporters photographic evidence of a flying phone Tina was propelled into a downward spiral that led to an abusive marriage a divorce and the birth of a child -- all before her twentieth birthday. Three years later she was charged with that childs murder and she is currently serving a life sentence for a crime as controversial mysterious and complex as the accused herself -- a crime she maintains she did not commit. Unleashed is Tinas story as told by a parapsychologist who witnessed striking paranormal phenomena in Tinas presence. Examining the destructive powers of thwarted emotions from a scientific perspective William Roll sheds remarkable light on the case of Tina Resch -- and boldly confronts our cultural responses to events that cannot be easily explained.