The Trey Adams and Ben Cloer case centered on a 2019 tragedy in Athens, Georgia, in which Winford “Trey” Adams III, an off-duty Madison County deputy, went to the home of 26-year-old University of Georgia graduate student Benjamin Lloyd Cloer after believing Cloer was involved with his wife; authorities said Adams used a GPS app to track her there, confronted the situation in a burst of jealousy, and Cloer suffered injuries from the encounter that he did not survive. In the aftermath, Adams was arrested, later lost his job in law enforcement, and the case drew wide attention because Cloer was a young scholar working in artificial intelligence whose family and community remembered him for his promise and character. In March 2022, Adams entered a plea to felony murder and aggravated assault, and he was sentenced to life in prison, bringing the criminal case to a close while leaving behind a story often described as a devastating example of suspicion, possessiveness, and a single irreversible decision destroying multiple lives.
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