The Yale Murder Author:Peter Meyer The setting of this true American tragedy is the Ivy League campus of Yale Unioversity where two people came together across two worlds, socially and geographically, fell in love and were destroyed in the process. The Yale Murder is told in a compelling narrative that rivals fiction. The crime, which originally reported on the front page if Th... more »e New York Times, is a modern tale of caste and class, love and rage, differing sexual mores; the intervention of the Catholic Church; and the dilemma of psychiatry's place ikn the modern courtroom. Richard Herrin, from a ghetto Los Angeles high school goes to Yale on a scholarship. There he meets Bonnie Garland, gradute of a swank prep school, daughter of a wealthy attorney. For three years the love of two sexually naive youngsters flourishes, until one day he bludgeoned her in her parents home. Controversy surrounded the aftermath as many in the Yale community, including the catholic church rallied around the killer. They pay his bond and enroll him in another college under an assumed name. High Courtroom drama uses new laws to openly probe the killers psyche and find out why he killed Bonnie and then asked the jury to find him innocent of murder. This stury of tragic romance also illuminates the unsure state of crime and punishment in America today.« less