The Murder in a Child's Mind

Guilty was the cry of the gavel in the courtroom that April day of 1995. A slender redheaded girl hung her head and was escorted out of the courtroom in handcuffs. Still it was hard to see from my side as an investigative reporter how a judge could give a juvenile seventy-three and a half years in prison. In the next few months I really wanted to dig further in what happened in this case.