Tina Resch

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Tina Resch (born October 23, 1969) achieved some fame during what the media called the Columbus Poltergeist case. She was an adopted child, and in 1984 unexplained events of alleged spontaneous telekinesis at her home were covered extensively by news media, including by way of a series of remarkable color photographs that were taken by newspaper photojournalist Fred Shannon of "The Columbus Dispatch" of Columbus, Ohio USA. The story lost some of its credibility when a video camera that had accidentally been left on by a visiting television station crew revealed Tina setting up one of these events, something Tina claimed was done to get the reporters to leave.

In 1992 she was jailed, along with a boyfriend of only a few months, for allegedly being responsible for the death her three year old daughter, who was in the sole custody of the boyfriend at the time. Her divorced name at that time was Tina Boyer. She did not have a trial, but in October of 1994 accepted a plea bargain to avoid the possibility of a death penalty. She passed a polygraph examination indicating her innocence less than 24 hours before her plea hearing and legitimate questions have since been raised concerning her convictions on the two counts in her indictment, for which she was sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison.

The "Atlanta Journal" newspaper gave her the title "Telekinetic Mom" in some of its reporting on the legal issues. In 2004, a book about the case "Unleased - Of Poltergeists and Murder: The Curious Story of Tina Resch" by psychologist William Roll, Ph.D and writer Valerie Storey was published which shed some light on the family's and paranormal investigators' side of events.

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