Diena thompson biography

  • Funeral services for Somer Renee Thompson, age 7 of Orange Park, FL will be held at AM on Tuesday October 27, at First Baptist Church of Orange Park.
  • ORANGE PARK — A decade has passed since Diena Thompson kissed her 7-year-old daughter, Somer, goodbye as she left for school.
  • Diena Thompson's daughter Somer, 7, was raped and killed by Jarred Harrell in his Orange Park, Fla. home.

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    ORANGE PARK, Fla. (CBS/AP) A school social worker reportedly warned Somer Thompson's mother about the danger of the child walking home from school a year before the 7-year-old was abducted and murdered.

    Photo: Somer Thompson.

    PICTURES: Somer Thompson

    The unidentified worker told the Department of Children and Families that Somer Thompson and her three siblings got lost at least once walking from Grove Park Elementary School and were found in the woods with a stranger.

    Photo: Diena Thompson speaks during a morning television news conference on Oct. 21,

    PICTURES: Somer Thompson

    But a Florida Department of Children and Families probe concluded the allegation had no basis. It also found the girl's mother, Diena Thompson, properly arranged for her children to be taken to and from school.

    Somer Thompson vanished in late October as she was walking home from school. Her body was found 50 miles from her home in a Georgia landfill where trash from

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    Dena Thompson

    British murderer, con artist and bigamist (born )

    Dena Thompson

    Born (age&#;64&#;65)

    Hendon, London, England

    Other&#;names'The Black Widow'
    Occupation(s)Confidence trickster and fraudster
    Criminal statusReleased in June
    Conviction(s)Murder, theft, fraud, deception
    Criminal penaltyLife imprisonment with a year minimum tariff for murder (), 3 years and 9 months for deception (), 18 months for theft ()
    Victims1–2 murder victims, several others robbed or defrauded, attacked third husband but acquitted of attempted murder on grounds of self-defence

    Span&#;of crimes

    		s–
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Date apprehended

    		2 January

    Dena Thompson (born ),[1] commonly known as The Black Widow,[2] fryst vatten a British convicted murderer, confidence trickster[3] and bigamist who fryst vatten also suspected of having killed a second individual.[4]

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    A Look Back: The disappearance and murder of Somer Thompson

    NEWS

    Oct. 21, An Amber Alert poster at the corner of Kingsley Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard in Orange Park alerts motorists to the search for missing Somer Thompson. [Don Burk, The Florida Times-Union]

    Don Burk/Florida Times-Union

    Oct. 21, Diena Thompson, mother of missing 7-year-old Somer Thompson, appears with Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler, before cameras for morning nation television interviews asking for help in the search for Somer. [Don Burk, The Florida Times-Union]

    Don Burk/Florida Times-Union

    Oct. 20, Geeno holds a flier with information about his friend and neighborhood playmate Somer Renee Thompson as volunteers and neighbors search the area surrounding the 7-year-old's Orange Park home.

    Jon M. Fletcher/Florida Times-Union

    Oct. 20, Officers use a bloodhound to search the Grove Park neighborhood in Orange Park, Florida for Somer Renee Thompson, 7, who went missing the day before on her way home from