State to seek death penalty for porn actor in Pasco slaying
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a porn actor charged in the death of a tattoo shop owner, Assistant State Attorney Mike Halkitis said today.
A Pasco County grand jury indicted 28-year-old Amanda Kaye Logue on a first-degree murder charge Wednesday.
Logue, of Leesburg, Ga., has been in custody since her arrest in Georgia on May 28. She was extradited to Pasco 10 days later and has been in the Land O' Lakes Jail since then.
A relative found the body of Dennis "Scooter" Abrahamsen face-down on a massage table inside his Sycamore Drive home May 16. He had been bludgeoned in the head and stabbed in the back, Pasco sheriff's investigators said.
Abrahamsen, 41, owned Embellishing Tattoo & Piercing, at 8516 State Road 52 in Hudson.
A laptop computer, video camera, digital camera, Home Depot credit card and roughly $6,000 were missing from his home. Rubber gloves were found in a hamper.
Investigators said another couple had sex with Logue and Abrahamsen on the night of the killing and that Abrahamsen took pictures and videotaped it. The couple told investigators Logue was the only person left with Abrahamsen when they left his house.
They also told authorities Logue sent continuous text messages to her boyfriend while they were at Abrahamsen's house.
In an interview with investigators at her Georgia home, Logue pinned the killing on her boyfriend, 27-year-old Jason Richard Andrews, authorities said. Logue said Andrews entered Abrahamsen's home after the other couple left.
Investigators this month issued a warrant charging Andrews with first-degree murder; he has not been found.
Pasco deputies said they retrieved cell phone messages Logue and Andrews exchanged during a period when Logue admitted being at Abrahamsen's house.
"I'm so glad you're really committed to this take," Andrews wrote, according to investigators. "Keep eyes for a knife, etc for me!"
Logue and Andrews were arrested in Largo on retail theft charges two days after the slaying. Andrews had Abrahamsen's Home Depot card with him at the time, authorities said.
Logue was released a day later after posting $150 bail.
Andrews pleaded no contest to the charge at his arraignment and was sentenced to six months of probation, according to court records.
Detectives interviewed him regarding Abrahamsen's death before his release from the Pinellas County Jail on May 19 but did not charge him.
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Deputies: Georgia prostitute killed Pasco man
During an interview with a Pasco detective at her Georgia home, Logue said her boyfriend, Jason Andrews, killed Abrahamsen. She said he entered the home after the couple they had sex with had left.
Pasco deputies retrieved cell phone messages between Logue and Andrews during a period when
Logue admitted being at Abrahamsen's house.
"I'm so glad you're really committed to this take," Andrews wrote. "Keep eyes for a knife, etc for me!
Logue said she wanted to have sex "after we kill (sic)him."
Andrews asked Logue if she had seen "the contents of the safe," and she said no.
"You just get him relaxed and face down," Andrews said, referring to a massage Logue was going to give Abrahamsen.
Logue later informed Andrews when she was starting the massage.
Rubber gloves that Logue said she wore were later found in a clothes hamper with the murder weapon, the sheriff's office said.
Logue has a profile on www.weselectmodels.com.
"I own a lingerie and tanning store," Logue wrote. I also host lingerie shows. I will do almost any photo shoot but no porno films. I am fun and energetic. I am looking for paid work."
Doll said this morning that detectives had interviewed Andrews, a Chicago native, but no charges were filed. Andrews was arrested on a charge of petty theft in Largo on May 17; he had Abrahamsen's Home Depot card with him at the time.
Doll said it is possible that detectives will speak with Andrews again.
Abrahamsen was no stranger to trouble.
He has owned numerous businesses in Pasco over the years, including Scooter's Towing and Recovery. Sheriff's officials said he was a repo man, but state records indicate that he was denied an application for licensure.
Abrahamsen was sentenced to five months, 29 days in jail on Feb. 25 for contempt of court. He was accused of violating a domestic violence injunction put in place in 2005. His former girlfriend, with whom he has children, had accused him of mentally and physically abusing her. He was released early May 7 after getting credit for time served, sheriff's office spokesman Doug Tobin said.
Abrahamsen had several criminal convictions, and he also had been sued in Pasco Circuit Court numerous times in the past couple of decades. Since 1994, he had 30 actions filed against him involving restraining orders, a negligence suit and cases involving money owed.
But according to the tattoo studio's MySpace page, Abrahamsen had a lot of friends, too. Customers,
employees and friends expressed shock over Abrahamsen's death on the website.
"Utterly beside myself," one poster wrote. "We love you."
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