While it is often said that the most dangerous predators conceal themselves in plain sight, the unsettling reality is that not all of these people masquerade as harmless. Some have the convictions to back up their disturbing backgrounds, but still, they can find a way to worm themselves into people’s lives. In the year 2020, a mother from Davenport, Iowa, confronted the stark reality that certain individuals can too often remain consistent in their harmful ways.
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Audio Sources:
“Henry Dinkins Speaks at Sentencing | Sleepover Kidnapping Murder Trial”
“‘How Did I Lose Her?’: Bodycam Shows Henry Dinkins Disoriented After Breasia Terrell Disappeared”
“IA v. Henry Dinkins | Sleepover Kidnapping Murder Trial”
“Henry Dinkins’ Son Says He Saw His Father Shoot Breasia Terrell”
Sources:
The Dispatch-Argus, 10 July, 2020 – “Davenport Firefighters Search Credit Island Lagoon”
The Dispatch-Argus, 11 July, 2020 – “Searching for Breasia”
Associated Press, 14 July, 2020 – “Police, Volunteers Search for Missing 10-Year-Old Girl”
Associated Press, 14 July, 2020 – “Person of Interest Identified in Iowa Girl’s Disappearance”
The Dispatch-Argus, 14 July, 2020 – “Breasia Terrel’s Mother Met with Henry Earl Dinkins”
The Dispatch-Argus, 14 July, 2020 – “Aishia Lankford, Breasia Terrell’s Mother”
The Dispatch-Argus, 15 July, 2020 – “Amber Alert Issued for 10-Year-Old Breasia Terrell”
The Dispatch-Argus, 15 July, 2020 – “I Don’t Know Where She Is”
The Dispatch-Argus, 17 July, 2020 – “Search for Breasia Terrell Enters its Seventh Day”
Associated Press, 20 July, 2020 – “Police Hoping to Find Missing Iowa Girl Alive”
The Philadelphia Tribune, 21 July, 2020 – “I Just Have to Find Her”
Associated Press, 22 July, 2020 – “FBI Announces $10,000 Reward”
The Quad City Times, 24 July, 2020 – “Dinkins Facing Charges of Meth”
The Dispatch-Argus, 12 August, 2020 – “County Prosecutors Add Two More Sex Offender Registry Charges”
The Dispatch-Argus, 14 August, 2020 – “Everyday People”
Associated Press, 14 November, 2020 – “Mother of Missing Iowa Girl Joins March”
The Dispatch-Argus, 14 November, 2020 – “Family, Concerned Citizens Gather for Missing Breasia Terrel”
The Dispatch-Argus, 8 December, 2020 – “Trial Set for Dinkins in Sex Offender Registry Violations”
Associated Press, 23 March, 2021 – “Police Say Remains Found in Eastern Iowa Pond”
The Daily Nonpareil, 23 March, 2021 – “Breasia Terrell’s Mother Waits”
Associated Press, 31 March, 2021 – “Remains Found in Rural Iowa Are Missing Girl”
The Dispatch-Argus, 1 April, 2021 – “Everyday People”
Associated Press, 18 May, 2021 – “Suspect in Iowa Girl’s Murder Had Been Paroled”
Associated Press, 19 May, 2021 – “Illinois Prison Term Loomed”
The Dispatch-Argus, 17 June, 2021 – “Henry Dinkins Pleads Not Guilty”
The Daily Nonpareil, 7 July, 2021 – “Breasia Terrell Murder”
The Tribune, 10 July, 2021 – “Warrants Fill Out Timeline”
The Dispatch-Argus, 9 February, 2022 – “Dinkins Seeks New Attorney”
The Dispatch-Argus, 10 February, 2022 – “Judge Tells Dinkins to Work Out Differences”
The Quad-City Times, 25 March, 2022 – “The Man Accused of Killing Breasia Terrell Remains Adamant”
Clinton Herald, 30 March, 2022 – “Change of Venue Approved”
Bulletin-Review, 26 July, 2023 – “Dinkins Viewed Violent Porn”
The Dispatch-Argus, 10 July, 2023 – “Breasia Terrell Disappeared Three Years Ago”
The Daily Nonpareil, 10 August, 2023 – “Stark Testimony Begins”
NBC – 13 WHO, 10 August, 2023 – “Breasia Terrell’s Mother, Aishia Lankford, Speaks”
The Dispatch-Argus, 11 August, 2023 – “Breasia Terrell’s Last Words to Her Mother”
The Dispatch-Argus, 11 August, 2023 – “Dinkins Day 2”
Bulletin-Review, 14 August, 2023 – “Murder Trial”
The Daily Nonpareil, 14 August, 2023 – “Dinkins’ Son Returns to Stand”
Bulletin-Review, 15 August, 2023 – “Dinkins Trial”
Bulletin-Review, 16 August, 2023 – “Trial in Slaying of Breasia Terrell”
Bulletin-Review, 18 August, 2023 – “Surveillance Video, Cell Phone Records Offer Picture”
The Daily Nonpareil, 21 August, 2023 – “Dinkins Trial”
The Daily Nonpareil, 22 August, 2023- “Dinkins Trial”
Bulletin-Review, 29 August, 2023 – “Closing Arguments Done”
Associated Press, 15 September, 2023 – “Iowa Man is Found Guilty”
The Daily Nonpareil, 16 September, 2023 – “I’m Going to Tell Breasia She Won”
The Daily Nonpareil, 12 October, 2023 – “You Took Away Everything”
