A Conversation with "Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence" Author James Renner on the Murder Of Lisa Pruett
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Back in September 1990, Lisa Pruett, a sixteen year old resident of Shaker Heights, Ohio, slipped out of her house for a late night rendezvous with her boyfriend. She never made it home. They found her body the next morning; she had been stabbed to death just about 30 feet from her boyfriend’s house.
A man named Kevin Young ended up being charged with the crime.
But he was acquitted. Yet that didn’t remove the clouds of doubt around him; law enforcement investigators and others believe Kevin got away with murder. Others maintain it was a travesty that he was even charged with the crime in the first place.
Now James Renner steps into the fray with LITTLE CRAZY CHILDREN, a meticulously reported new book on the subject. Renner- a reporter with a long track record of investigating and writing about true crime- came to this story convinced that Kevin was wrongfully charged and that another man was in fact responsible for the crime.
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| 0:00.0 | You know by now that we're all about the journey, June's journey that is. |
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| 0:08.0 | It's the closest I've come to feeling like I've been dropped in the middle of a mystery novel set in the 1920s. |
| 0:14.0 | That's because you get to play as June. |
| 0:17.0 | A globetradding flapper slash amateur sleuth who lives to solve mysteries. |
| 0:23.0 | You get to visit all sorts of fascinating places from Paris to Cuba. |
| 0:27.0 | You beat levels by identifying hidden objects in the scene. |
| 0:31.0 | And we've found that the more we play, the sharper our observational skills become. |
| 0:36.0 | The game is delightful and a wonderful way to relax. |
| 0:40.0 | I'll often pull my phone out and play it when I've got a free moment. |
| 0:44.0 | Like I'm on hold with an archive or I'm waiting for a courthouse to open up in the morning. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm currently on chapter 16, meaning I'm searching for the son of June's housekeeper, |
| 0:55.0 | who's on the run from New Orleans gamblers and the police. |
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| 1:09.0 | Discover your inner detective when you download June's journey for free today on iOS and Android. |
| 1:17.0 | Content warning. |
| 1:19.0 | This episode includes discussion of the murder of a teenage girl. |
| 1:24.0 | Back in September 1990, Lisa Pruitt, a 16-year-old resident of Shaker Heights, Ohio, |
| 1:31.0 | slipped out of her house for a late-night rendezvous with her boyfriend. |
| 1:36.0 | She never made it home. |
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