S21 Ep14: In Public Record: A Journey To The Truth of a M*rder and Trial w/Michael Kelly

True Crime Tuesday Presents: In Public Record: A Journey To The Truth of a Murder and Trial with Former Police Officer/ Author, Michael Kelly

September 1990. In Shaker Heights, Ohio, teenage honors student Lisa Lee Pruett vanishes into the night. A boy calls 911 when she does not arrive for a secret late-night meet-up. Police soon find her nearby, stabbed to death and left exposed. Lisa had just passed an important test and earned her driver's license. She was a Girl Scout, athlete, musician, and lover of poetry. Then her life was cut short.

Investigators quickly focused on a troubled young man who lived a few blocks away. His name leaked, the media swarmed, and the case became a spectacle. Two years later, he was indicted on controversial testimony, tried under national attention, and ultimately acquitted. His life never recovered.

Decades later, the murder remains unsolved.

Now a former police officer reopens the trail, determined to separate rumor from evidence and find the truth, if it is still there to be found.

On Today's TCT, we talk with Author, Michael Kelly about why he went after this cold case, some of the challenges he experienced while investigating this case.  The evidence left behind by the original investigators, and we talk about what famous professional wrestler played a huge part in breaking this case wide open!

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