A Conversation with "Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence" Author James Renner on the Murder Of Lisa Pruett
Murder Sheet3 Aug 2023

A Conversation with "Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence" Author James Renner on the Murder Of Lisa Pruett

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.

You can find James' book on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Crazy-Children-James-Renner/dp/0806542551/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=2YYMPUPNTRZV7&keywords=little+crazy+children+james+renner&qid=1689872428&sprefix=james+renn%252Caps%252C110&sr=8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=15b3e6211f3eb347fd8a7b0db47d0330&camp=1789&creative=9325

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