Kansas Charley The Boy Murderer Author:Joan Jacobs Brumberg Most Americans regard ?kids who kill? as a modern phenomenon, but the tragic tale of ?Kansas Charley? shows that violent boys are a long-standing problem. Charles Miller was a seventeen?year?old orphan who was hanged in Wyoming in 1892 for a horrific double murder committed when he was only fifteen. This true story takes us into a world of pover... more »ty and abuse, revealing the people and places that shaped Charley?s behavior, his crime and his punishment. The author brings to life a thought?provoking chapter in the history of the juvenile justice system.« less