02261cam a2200289 i 4500 884834263 TxAuBib 20230811120000.0 230612s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023021593 9780806542553 HRD 28.00 0806542551 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Renner, James, 1978-, author. Little, crazy children [BOOK] : a true crime tragedy / James Renner. New York, NY : Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp, [2023] xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes discussion questions. 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. Provided by publisher. 20230811. Murder Ohio Shaker Heights Case studies. Murder Investigation Ohio Shaker Heights Case studies. True crime stories.