Marjorie Abenian's Life Story

Marjorie was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in addition to her existing diagnosis of bipolar disorder. After a ten-day trial she was found not guilty of homicide and possessing an instrument of crime but found guilty of carrying a firearm without a license. Marjorie spent the next 10 years to 2003 with a man named Jim Rodin who she told often would never live up to her previous partner Richard Armstrong. Soon after losing the battle to her mother's estate Marjorie and her boyfriend Ken Barnes met 51 year old TV repair man and handyman well-versed in computers and electronics. In May 2003 two months before the collarbone incident Ken Barnes was driving around Erie with Marj