Chapter 14 through Chapter 16 Summary and Analysis

This subsection describes particular challenging cases. Chapter 14, Who Killed the All-American Girl? tells the story of Mark and Karla who are engaged to marry and plan to move in together after their party on June 20, 1978. After work that day Mark and a friend Tom stop at their house. As they leave the disordered basement Mark sees Karla on her knees bent forward wearing only a sweater in the laundry room. Her hands are tied behind and her head is in a barrel of water. They pull the dead girl out and Mark collapses in grief. Her head has blunt-force trauma and she is strangled before being put in the barrel. Clues are few but a neighbor remembers a red car with a white roof and a long-haired rough-looking fellow earlier that day but there is no suspect...