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"In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett 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, 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. 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."

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Journalist James Renner is the author of several books, including The Serial Killer's Apprentice, True Crime Addict, The Man from Primrose Lane, and The Great Forgetting. His true crime stories have been published in the Best American Crime Writing and Best Creative Nonfiction anthologies. Journalist James Renner is the author of several books, including The Serial Killer's Apprentice, True Crime Addict, The Man from Primrose Lane, and The Great Forgetting. His true crime stories have been published in the Best American Crime Writing and Best Creative Nonfiction anthologies.

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