When 19-year-old Lorraine Snell was found strangled in the back seat of a station wagon in September 1980, her grieving mother remembered the kindly investigator from the Kings County District Attorneys office who used to visit her. He showed up at the house and he said he is working on Lorraines case, Pearl Snell-Holder recalled recently, speaking of investigator,Wayne Tennent. He constantly was calling me, and I thought he was helping me.
Now, nearly 35 years after her daughter was buried and with no arrest ever made Snell-Holder is reeling from revelations that one of the NYPD case folders is missing, that Tennent was never assigned to the case by the District Attorneys office, and that he tried to get access to lab reports more than 25 years after the murder after he had retired from the DAs office...
Tennent told PIX 11 Investigates that he showed interest in the Snell investigation because hed briefly met the young legal secretary when she used to deliver files to the District Attorneys office in 1980. But Snells mother and sister remain bothered by Tennents comments about two persons of interest in the case: James Burrus and his wife, Barbara. Barbara Burrus was Lorraines cousin. The two grew up together.
