Welcome to Shaker Heights, episode one, a scream in the night.

On the east side of Cleveland, there's a quaint little town called Shaker Heights.

It's a planned community, originally designed by the Van Swarajan brothers, two eccentric

railroad tycoons over a hundred years ago.

They built grand mansions and gardens, and in the middle of the town is around about,

with a classic movie theater and coffee shop.

Today, Shaker Heights is an odd mix of upper-class blue bloods and severely poor, multi-generational

families of immigrants who live on the edge of town where the big city encroaches.

Nowhere else in Greater Cleveland is the racial and economic disparity of the region so

apparent.

Shaker Heights is the best and worst of everything we have to offer.

But in its heart, Shaker Heights is still a small town.

It's a small town with a small police department used to small town problems.

On September 14, 1990, the murder of a young woman tore this town apart.

This podcast revisits the murder of 16-year-old Lisa Proud, who was stabbed 21 times and left

for dead, behind a mansion at the corner of Lee and South Woodland.

We present to you the mystery, as it transpired from the point of view of the detectives,

who worked the case.

Each episode presents reenactments of conversations between witnesses and detectives that have

been taken verbatim from official court documents.

A classmate of Lisa's, a young man named Kevin Young, was ultimately charged with her murder,

but was acquitted by a jury of his peers.

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