Fourteen

<I>Chicago Tribune</I> editor Bill O'Connell O'Connell explores one of the most heinous but least publicized crimes in Illinois history: the 1968 abduction sexual assault and murder of fourteen-year-old David Stukel by fourteen-year-old bullies Billy Rose Sprinkle and James Perruquet. </P>O'Connell-David Stukel's Little League teammate-recalls the victim's idyllic childhood and takes readers into the minds of the murderers and inside the homes hearts and photo albums of the victim's family whose grief is palpable a generation after the crime. His research includes parole interviews inmate psychological reports and conversations with the families of the murderers and the family of the victim. </P><P><I>Fourteen</I> is a masterfully crafted thoroughly insightful account of the years leading up to and the four decades since the unconscionable and unprovoked slaying of an innocent ninety-five-pound high school freshman. </P>