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True Crime Book Discussion: "Little, Crazy Children" by James Renner

2024-09-16 12:00:00 2024-09-16 13:00:00 America/New_York True Crime Book Discussion: "Little, Crazy Children" by James Renner Discuss a true crime book. This month we are discussing "Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence" by James Renner. Upper Marlboro -

Monday, September 16
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-09-16 12:00:00 2024-09-16 13:00:00 America/New_York True Crime Book Discussion: "Little, Crazy Children" by James Renner Discuss a true crime book. This month we are discussing "Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence" by James Renner. Upper Marlboro -

Discuss a true crime book. This month we are discussing "Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence" by James Renner.

"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 diminish 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 teen 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."

—From Catalog.


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AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Discussions |

TAGS: | Book Discussion |

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