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Book Review of Death of Innocence: A Case of Murder in Vermont

Death of Innocence: A Case of Murder in Vermont
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One early spring day, two young girls took a short cut home from school through the woods. Then, in a few horrifying moments, the tranquility of the day was shattered by rape, torture and murder. A small Vermont town and the entire nation was stunned-- these gruesome crimes had been committed not by hardened criminals but by two young boys, fifteen and sixteen years old.

One of America's finest investigative journalists, Peter Meyer, recounts this provacative true story or terror in the small Vermont town of Essex Junction. He powerfully recreates this tragic case and its complex emotional aftermath-- the statewide manhunt, the trial, and the chilling results that sent one teenage killer to prison for life and set the other free after two and a half years. Here is the shocking true story.