We were the good guys and everyone outside the church was evil and going to hell and we had the only message that would bring the world any hope.

We had to go and warn people.

These terrible things are happening and if you want this pain to stop, then you have to change because God isn't going to change.

After the September 11 attacks, we had the sign that said thank God for September 11.

What were we thinking?

This massive crowd comes down. We were at this corner of this intersection of these three streets.

By the time they actually reached us, we're just enraged.

There was no space between us and them.

I got really dicey. One of my cousins gave his signs to somebody else and started standing on top of a trash can pretending like he wasn't with us.

They were, again, incredibly intense because obviously the circumstances are so sobering.

It brings me incredible sadness to think about now. I can't do this forever.

My family would refuse to have any contact with me at all once I left.

Somebody that we had confided in sent a letter to my parents and told them that we were planning to leave and then that email came in and we left.

Alice's you know James Rinner is one of my favorite true crime authors and he has a new book out little crazy children for readers of Ann rule and Greg Olson.

It is a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author of true crime addict and the creator host of the podcast true crime this week and the philosophy of crime.

James explores the unsolved murder of 16 year old Lisa Pruitt in the real off town of the best settling novel little fires everywhere for a painstakingly research to count of a senseless and heartbreaking tragedy and the people who were pulled into its aftermath.

In September of 1990 in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights 16 year old Lisa Pruitt, a poetry lover and member of a church youth group was on her way to a midnight trist with her boyfriend when she was viciously stabbed to death only 30 feet from the boys 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 woke 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 squalch the anger and outrage among those who believe that Kevin got away with murder.

With a fresh perspective and painstaking research called from police files court records transcripts uncollected evidence and new interviews James Renter reconstructs the events leading up to and following that heartbreaking night what emerges is a portrait of a community seaving with dark undercurrents its single minded authorities protective status conscious parents and the deeply peer pressured teens within Lisa's circle.

Who had the capacity for such unchecked violence what monsters still lurk in the dark after more than 30 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 so make sure you pick up little crazy children at your favorite bookseller.

I'm Brett and I'm Alice and we are the prosecutors.

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