Little, Crazy Children

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 boyfri ...

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,