2 Go on Trial in Florida in Slaying of Tourist
MIAMI — Two men go on trial today for one of Florida’s most notorious tourist murders: a robbery that left a German woman dead and helped trigger a drop in the state’s $32-billion tourist industry.
Barbara Meller Jensen, 39, was in Miami for only an hour in April, 1993, when she was savagely beaten, robbed and run over by thieves after she took a wrong turn off the highway en route to her hotel.
Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against defendants Anthony Williams and Leroy Rogers, who have been in jail since their arrest a few weeks after the killing.
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