Colder Case: How California Executed the Wrong Man and Left a Serial Killer Free to Stalk Children

Three little girls went missing from Centinela Park in Los Angeles in June, 1937. After a massive search Boy Scouts found their bodies in an isolated Baldwin Hills ravine two days later. Melba Marie Everett (9), her little sister Madeline Everett (7) and their friend Jeanette Stephens (8) had been brutally raped and killed. S.C. Stone was still in prison for the 1924 murders of young sisters Nina and May Martin (see Uncivil Twilight), so he is easily ruled out as a suspect. Citizens of Inglewood thought they knew the real killer was the same man that killed the Martin sisters in 1924, not Albert Dyer, a feeble-minded man sentenced to hang for the three little girls' deaths. Book 2 of The Colder Case Series continues the investigation of true crime child murders and covers the most brutally tragic crime in the history of Los Angeles County. Did two sisters and their friend get justice?