She Claims It Was Him
Aside from other evidence, prosecutors would use the dental marks from the victim and compare them to that of Starks. And while the ‘expert concluded with a reasonable degree of dental and odontological certainty,’ it’s been said that this form of proof could not be considered 100 percent reliable. Plus there were many other inconsistencies in the supposed evidence against Starks, but the one that would conclude his guilty conviction was that the victim identified Starks as the man who had attacked her that night. So on September 25, 1986, Bennie Starks was found ‘guilty of two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, one count of attempted aggravated criminal assault, one count of aggravated battery and one count of unlawful restraint.’ He was given 100 years in prison for these crimes that he did not do.
