Death Row, Ohio

As you well know, I am an inmate on Ohio's Death Row, at Mansfield Correctional
Institution. I have been in prison since 1992. As you can guess from the death row sentence,
I was accused and found guilty of murder. The sad part is that I was convicted soley on the
word of the actual killer -- no evidence, no I.D., nothing, except for her saying that she
"knew" that I had to do it.

It's a long, movie of the week story, but the short version is that myself and a friend were
robbed by my ex-wife, and a few of her friends. In the process, I was hurt and got away, but
he was killed. True, I did not run to the police afterwards as most people would, but I looked
at it as part of the price I had to pay for being involved in crime to begin with, as I have
done minor crimes for a large portion of my adult life. Mostly things like writing bad checks
on my personal account, but never nothing like I was accused of here.

Furthermore, I felt that since I had not done the crime, I was in the clear. So why should I
have my children grow up knowing their mother tried to get their father killed so she could
buy the drugs I denied her money for? Unfortunately, she had no such compunctions. I
know, "Imagine that, she just tried to kill you idiot!"  But we had been involved since I was
pretty young, and when she cried I really thought she might change after this. But, I had no
idea that she had done these type of things before, during a few years we had been separated.

Well, I've been in prison several years now, I am just a little wiser, and through the beauty
of rumors and gossip, I have found out that my ex-wife has done, or been involved in,
several similar murders, or just plain rip-offs of men she was involved with, and at least one young woman.

Since my entire conviction centers around her lying testimony to keep herself out of prison,
any information I can get about these instances will definitely help to prove our case so that
I can rejoin the human race, especially my two boys who are currently separated since she
refuses to even try to be a mother to them.

To the best of my knowledge, my ex-wife has lived as, or represented herself to be the
following people:

Tabatha Lynn Keith
Tabatha Lynn Sheppard
Tabatha Lynn Henness
Tabatha Lynn Pittman
  and Brandy something or other.

As for the various places of residence, she has lived in West Virginia, Mansfield, Ohio,
Columbus, Ohio, Texas, and I believe Louisiana. There may be more, but a large part of her
life was kept secret from me.

Tabatha is a drug addict, and has exhibited several different personalities, along with being
bi-polar. One day she will work at Toys R Us, and the next day she may be out on the street
corner as a prostitute. She is also bi-sexual.

From personal experience and accounts I have had related to me, she basically follows the
same pattern: she will convince someone that she is helpless without them, needs to be
rescued from herself or a bad situation, and that they are the center of her world. After a
time, it will become apparent that she goes through large amounts of money, she'll
disappear for days, and when you find out she is abusing drugs and attempt to stop her or
leave her, she will become violent, and either attack you if you are in the way of her and the
drugs, or attempt suicide to gain your sympathy so she will be given a second chance.
Generally, she will either pick an elderly genteman, or someone like myself with a
checkered past or present so they will be more likely to accept that she has "problems",
and despite constantly messing up, is trying to straighten up.

Unfortunately, when you finally wise up and cut her off from money for her drugs, she will
steal from you, your friends, family, whatever she has to do. I know of several of us that she
has drawn weapons on, stabbed, shot at, or whatever. I also know that several people have
died in the process, including her latest husband, under highly suspicious circumstances.
That is the type of information  I am looking for, people she has used and abused, robbed,
hurt, etc. I am also looking for more information in the following deaths, and if you can help
me prove she was involved with them at the time.

Obviously, some of you may have feelings for her and be reluctant, regardless of how she
treated you, to speak out against her. Many men have dropped charges repeatedly against
her for robbing them. On that, you should never fear if you watch TV any at all, you are well
aware that after the state blames and tries one person, it is nearly impossible for them to
admit they were wrong and to go after the guilty party. Simply put, I want my life back, not
sitting here waiting to die for another's crime.

I know she was involved in the shooting death of a Cuban by the name of Jose, in Columbus,
Ohio either in the late 1980's , or real early 1990. He was supposedly found on Hudson Ave.
in a car, shot in the head with a .357 or something like that.

She shared an apartment with a young woman who was her lover also, in Columbus, Ohio in
the latter 1980's who also disappeared. According to the police, she told them that the
Cubans killed her and threw her by a river. However, after a nightmare, she said something
about having fought with and killed her herself, and that she was taken out of the county and
thrown beside the road.

Also during the lates 1980's , in and around Ohio, there were several stories of men she had
been with, some she promised to marry, all of whom she was to have repeatedly ripped off,
and several having been attacked by her or her other male friends, she even showed off an
engagement ring and fur coat from one of them.

I have also heard that she set several people up to be robbed for their drugs and drug
money, charming them and tricking them into places where people were waiting for them.
One was supposed to have gotten killed in the process, and thrown into the river after being
dismembered so no one would see them.

She also moved to Texas with an elderly gentleman, where she was supposed to have been
arrested for attacking people on different occasions, including attacking him with both a
pistol and a hunting knife on two separate instances. Something about stabbing him right
between the eyes. This man was supposed to have been named Harold Arledge, and was to
have originally been her drug counselor before falling under her spell.

And lastly, her last husband lived in Louisiana, but died from a drug overdose in Kentucky.
It was suspicious because she had just went through his entire injury settlement of
$89,000.00, and said about a month earlier that she was trying to find a way to get rid of him
without getting into trouble about it. His name was Ronnie Pittman, and I am hoping I can
make some contact with his family and maybe learn if they had similar information about her.

I have also found out that she was regularly used by various police departments to convict
people she was involved in for numerous crimes, such as credit cards, drugs, and what have
you. In each of these instances, of course, she was an innocent, and they were the bad guys,
and showing that this is a policy the police have developed with her will also go far to prove
my innocence. Especially since they denied that they have used her in this capacity,
knowing that the jury would see the truth if they admitted it.

In closing, I know I never covered everything here, but as I said in the beginning, I wasn't
prepared to begin this part of my plea for your help yet.

If you know of any of the above, or might know of others, or think you can help in any way
at all, please don't hesitate to contact me. The tiniest thing, even if it's just a suggestion of
where I could gain more information, may be the one thing that leads to justice and my finally having a life.

I realize that I am a nobody, a small time crook, probably of little use to anyone, but I have
never done anything to deserve this and need all of the help I can get.

Thank you. If nothing else it helps just knowing someone is reading this, and that I am still
trying. Take care, and I will try to have something more interesting for you to read or see in the future.

  Keith Henness

Warren "Keith" Henness, A287-375
878 Coitsville - Hubbard Rd
Youngstown, OH 44505

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