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Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

408 // Lisa Pruett Murder Mystery w/ James Renner

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna speak with author James Renner about his new book Little, Crazy Children, about the unsolved murder of Lisa Pruett from Shaker Heights, Ohio in 1990. Check out our Subscription Service where we have a bundled our bonus material from Missing, Crawlspace and Dark Valley shows! Ad-free episodes and more at https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ Follow James: https://twitter.com/JamesRenner Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/james.renner.14/ James's site: https://jamesrenner.com/new-true-crime-thriller-little-crazy-children/ Get Little, Crazy Children on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Crazy-Children-James-Renner/dp/0806542551 We love our Air Doctors! And if you want your air to be easier to breathe, head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code CRAWLSPACE and, depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off! Receive 20% OFF any AquaTru water purifier when you go to AquaTru.com and use code “CRAWLSPACE”! We love our AquaTru water purifiers! Receive 20% off any AquaTru water purifier when you go to AquaTru.com and use code "CRAWLSPACE" Follow us: IG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/ TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast YT: https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePod FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound Check out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.

0:30.0

Welcome to Crawl Space. I'm Tim here today with Lance Lance. How are you today?

0:39.0

I am doing fantastic today, Tim, of course, because our guest is a return guest who always brings an amazing conversation to the table.

0:48.0

So that makes me feel pretty good. I think the listeners are going to enjoy this. I would love to know first, though, how you are doing.

0:56.0

I'm doing great. Thanks a lot for asking. Yeah, I'm excited to introduce this conversation with old friend James Renner.

1:03.0

And he's got a new book that's called Little Crazy Children, about the 1990 Unsolved Murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruitt.

1:13.0

And this book, Lance, is excellent. We both listen to the audiobook version and it is a captivating mystery.

1:22.0

Yeah, definitely pick up this book wherever you get your books. And if you want to do both, the audio is really great.

1:28.0

Like you said, James does the narration. So if you are a fan of James's podcast and you just like his speaking style,

1:34.0

it's the perfect complement to the story, listening to him, who experienced this investigation firsthand.

1:40.0

Obviously tell you this story. So that makes it resonate a little bit more, I think, for me anyway.

1:48.0

But the murder of Lisa Pruitt is really like an Americana style who done it and leaves you baffled and angry.

1:58.0

And James really captures the emotion of that community at the time. And it's a story of bullying.

2:06.0

It's a story of people who are of aletus. And then James gets personal too, which he does in all of his books.

2:12.0

And I think like each book that he releases, he gives you a little bit more personal information that in some, I guess, weird way contributes to the story he's telling.

2:22.0

It gives the motivation behind his storytelling. So definitely give this one a shot.

2:28.0

And you can check out James's writing on his website at jamesrenner.com.

2:33.0

And Lance, if folks want to hear this episode ad free, they can now subscribe to crawl space premium that is available on Apple podcasts.

2:43.0

But if you're not an Apple user, you can go to crawlspace.supportingcast.fm and sign up for crawl space premium there.

2:49.0

You get ad free episodes early releases and our weekly bonus show. And it's all bundled with missing, which is another one of our podcasts and the new podcast from crawl space media dark valley.

3:01.0

Well, thank you for telling me that Tim. I am frantically writing it down. I probably missed something. So in future episodes, I'll probably ask you again or just to make things easier. I'll go to the show notes.

3:12.0

Perfect. And I'll click right over. But Tim, I have no idea where people can find us on social media. Can you fill fill me in here?

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