Shola Henry, sitting on the witness stand Friday morning, recounted how her sister Stepha Henry vanished during their trip to South Florida almost two decades ago. Her voice shook as she faced the man convicted of killing her sister, a 22-year-old aspiring lawyer who hasn’t been seen since 2007.
“She didn’t do anything to you, and I’m sure of that,” Shola said to stone-faced Kendrick Williams, convicted last month of Henry’s murder. “You took someone who actually meant something, who could actually make an impact and change the world… That’s not justice, is it?”
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For 17 years, Henry’s phone and bank account have gone unused. Her body has never been found. But prosecutors say she was killed after police discovered large amounts of her blood inside a 1995 Acura Integra linked to Williams. Henry and her sister Shola were visiting their aunt in Miami Gardens when Henry, a graduate of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, disappeared.