02668aam a2200409 i 4500 1374487424 OCoLC 20230725165346.0 230327s2023 nyua 000 0beng d 2023933471 9780806542553 0806542551 (OCoLC)1374487424 (OCoLC)1346616703 TOH eng rda TOH YDX BDX WIM PX0 SDG TnLvILS n-us-oh Renner, James, 1978- author. 13885 Little, crazy children : a true crime tragedy / James Renner. New York, NY : Citadel Press, 2023. ©2023. xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent. still image sti rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. Includes discussion questions (pages 319-320). 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. Pruett, Lisa. 13886 Young, Kevin, 1972?-2017. 13887 Murder Ohio Shaker Heights. 13888 Murder Investigation. 9573 Criminal investigation Ohio Shaker Heights Case studies. 13889 Trials (Murder) Ohio Shaker Heights Case studies. 13890 Murder Ohio Shaker Heights Case studies. 13891 Murder victims Ohio Shaker Heights Case studies. 13892 True crime stories. lcgft. 8501 ddc BOOK 28915 28915 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2023-07-25 28.00 3 364.15 RENN 64412 2025-04-05 2025-03-25 2023-07-25 BOOK 1