Supreme Court refuses appeal of condemned Harris County pedophile
03/24/2008
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the case of a
Houston-area man condemned for the rape and strangling of a 7-year-old
neighborhood girl more than a decade ago.
Eric Nenno, 46, had asked the high court to review last
summer's rejection of his appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals. He argued the silence of a polygraph examiner after he took
the lie detector test improperly coerced him into making an
incriminating statement that led to the discovery of the dead girl's
body in the attic of his home in Hockley, about 30 miles northwest of
Houston.
It was 13 years ago Sunday — March 23, 1995 — that Nicole Benton disappeared from her father's birthday celebration.
Nenno, a former plumbing supply salesman, was questioned two days later.
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