There are certain cases and events that continue to captivate no matter the passage of time. This book and Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time add to the iconography of such a tragic story. Both works leave you with that nagging feeling of what could or should have been but for the myriad lapses in judgment at a time when the perpetual pendulum of American attitudes on crime and permissiveness swung too far to the left. What sticks with you is haunting feeling of emptiness over the fate of the victims who deserved better.
