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Despite the photographer's presence, Wade paws at Shirley. When asked to stop, he says he is only playing, then becomes angry.

Wade, after an afternoon of drinking, becomes aggressive. His attempts to kiss and fondle his wife are refused.

Wade Rankins is the father of one of the two boys who committed the murder for reasons still unclear to everyone. The boy is now in juvenile detention center awaiting trial. Wade waits in his housing project apartment fro his wife, Shirley, to…

Oh, I miss him! Lela and Arlethea Morse, Eric's grandmother and aunt, revisit painful memories of the day Eric was dropped from the window to his death.

Arlethea Morse, Eric's aunt, visits the child's grave, which several months after his death remains unmarked but for a tire track on the grass at the cemetery. The boy ad been pushed to his death after telling his aunt that he was asked to steal…

In October 1994, two high school boys, aged 10 and 11, pushed Eric Morse, age 5, from his fourteenth floor window to his death below. It was a crime that grabbed headlines, even President Clinton's attention.

The now boarded-up room in the violence-ridden Ida B. Wells Housing Project , Chicago ('The Killing Zone') where a particularly tragic and controversial murder took place.

Betty Sturtz is a single mom living in Green Bay, Wisconsin. What makes her exceptional is that this loving parent somehow emerged from a disastrous childhood. Repeatedly raped, beaten, starved and finally abandoned by her parents when she was…

jack Dairiki, born in California, was 14 years old and living in Hiroshima in August 1945. A semi-retired architect now living in San Francisco, his daily life is one of remembering the blistered, bleeding and scorched people around him after the…

Chemist Al Ghiorso worked on the Manhattan Project, not considering the consequences of creating nuclear bombs. Mr. Ghiorso, who still tinkers with nuclear accelerators, remembers only revulsion at the now irreversible dropping of the bombs on…