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With your host, journalist and author, Dan Zupansky.

Good evening. In September 1990, in Shaker Heights, Ohio, 16-year-old honors student, Lisa Lee Pruitt, vanishes into the night.

A boyfriend calls 911 when she does not arrive for a secret late-night meetup.

Police soon find her nearby, stabbed the death, and left exposed.

Lisa had just passed an important test and earned her driver's license.

She was a Girl Scout, athlete, musician,

and lover of poetry. Then her life was cut short. Investigators quickly focused on a troubled

young man who lived just a few blocks away. His name was leaked, the media swarmed, and the case became a spectacle.

Two years later, he was indicted on controversial testimony, tried under national attention,

and ultimately acquitted. However, his life never recovered.

Decades later, the murder remains unsolved. However, his life never recovered.

Decades later, the murder remains unsolved.

Now a former police officer reopens the trail, determined to separate rumor from evidence

and finally find the truth, if it is still there to be found.

The book that we're featuring this evening is in public record,

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