Shattered Justice: A Savage Murder and the Death of Three Families' Innocence (True Crime (Avon Books))

A family's horror-- one child murdered . . .another destroyed. The Crowes' neighbors in the peaceful middle classcommunity in San Diego's North County were shockedby the savagery of the crime--a young girl murdered, stabbed repeatedly, in her own bed in the dead of night. The lack of any evidence of forced entry led the Escondidopolice to their inevitable conclusion: someone in the familywas responsible for 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe's slaying. The investigation quickly zeroed in on the victim's olderbrother, Michael, and two teenage friends--three lonerswho enjoyed inhabiting dark fantasy worlds of quests andviolence. Through efficient, by-the-book police work, theboys were broken down and ultimately confessed. The onlyproblem was the detectives had gotten everything wrong ... Shattered Justice is the riveting and disturbing trueaccount of a horrific tragedy and the terrible crimethat followed--a nightmare of four innocent livesshattered, one by a killer's blade, three byobsession and twisted law The Crowes neighbors in the peaceful middle classcommunity in San Diego's North County were shockedby the savagery of the crime--a young girl murdered, stabbed repeatedly, in her own bed in the dead of night. The lack of any evidence of forced entry led the Escondidopolice to their inevitable conclusion: someone in the family was responsible for 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe's slaying. The investigation quickly zeroed in on the victims olderbrother, Michael, and two teenage friends--three lonerswho enjoyed inhabiting dark fantasy worlds of quests andviolence. Through efficient, by-the-book police work, theboys were broken down and ultimately confessed. The onlyproblem was the detectives had gotten everything wrong