When Good Kids Kill

The crimes...the carnage...the warning signs....Why do "good kids" go "bad"? A searing look at murder among teens and how we can stop the violence. What made them snap? In New Jersey, a quiet, happy, eighteen-year-old girl from a loving home successfully hides her pregnancy until prom night, when she delivers, then kills her baby.... In Nevada, a high school honor student molests, then kills a seven-year-old girl in the women's rest room of a casino.... In Washington, two seventeen-year-old best friends become deeply involved in a "gothic" lifestyle and carry out the murder of an entire family of four for the excitement.... Behind the sensational, horrifying teen crimes flooding the media, the facts are sobering: violence among young adults is at an all-time high--approximately 20 percent of all known murderers in America are under the age of eighteen. Moreover, the kids who kill are often the "good kids," the honorable, trustworthy, conscientious students who have no history of violence. In a searing probe of our nation's most shocking cases, a noted expert provides an in-depth look at the cases, examining the warning signs and behavior patterns that can be a prelude to murder--and shows how parents, teachers, counselors, and law enforcement officials can intercede before tragedy strikes.

Kelleher, Michael D.

Teen & Young Adult

Dell

In the late sixties, a serial killer calling himself the Zodiac terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area, committing brutal, random attacks, and bragging about them in letters to the San Francisco Chronicle.
In Santa Rosa, fifty miles to the north, investigators Manny Bruin and Mick Millian were asked to tail potential suspect Byron Avion, an odd, portly man admittedly obsessed with the Zodiac. He had other eccentricities as well, not the least of which was his large collection of cardboard boxes, carefully stacked and tied shut with white nylon rope.
But peculiar habits do not a criminal make – that is, not until the bodies of young female hitchhikers began appearing in ditches, tied up with white nylon rope. That and a dozen other connections convinced Bruin and Millian that Avion was the Highway 101 Murderer, a Zodiac-style killer who prowled the Santa Rosa area.
Despite the connections, a decade-long investigation was unable to connect Avion to the crimes, or connect Zodiac to the northern murders. Bruin and Millian eventually became so frustrated that they dubbed Avion "Suspect Zero," and hoped for something to break the case open. When that break finally came, it re-wrote the book on homicide investigations and forever changed the direction of each man’s life.

Suspect Zero

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

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