In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from her boyfriend's home. 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.
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