Binding: Hardcover
Description: In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights sixteen - year - old Lisa Pruett a poetry lover and member of a church youth group was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy's home. The murder cast a palpable gloom over the upscale community and sparked accusations theories and rumors among Lisa's friends and peers. Together they wove a damning narrative that circled back to a likely suspect: 'weird high school outcast Kevin Young. Without a shred of evidence the teen was arrested charged and tried for the crime. His eventual acquittal didn t squelch the anger and outrage among those who believed that Kevin got away with murder. With a fresh perspective and painstaking research culled from police files court records transcripts uncollected evidence and new interviews James Renner reconstructs the events leading up to and following that heartbreaking night. What emerges is a portrait of a community seething with dark undercurrents - its single - minded authorities protective status - conscious parents and the deeply peer - pressured teens within Lisa's circle. Who had the capacity for such unchecked violence? What monsters still lurk in the dark? After more than thirty years questions like these continue to fester among the community of Shaker Heights Ohio still deeply scarred by wounds that remain hidden unspoken and unhealed.
Title: Little Crazy Children A True Crime Tragedy Of Lost Innocence
Author(s): Renner James
Publisher: Citadel Press Inc. U. S.
Barcode: 9780806542553
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 6/27/2023
Category: True Crime