In the summertime of 1937, using the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California crime stunned an already grim nation. Three little girls were lured from a neighborhood park to unthinkable fatalities.

After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect surfaced, and his sensational trial captivated audiences everywhere. Justice was swift, as well as the condemned guy was buried away with the horrifying tale.But decades afterwards, Pamela Everett, an attorney and former journalist, about Little Shoes starts digging, pursuing up a cryptic comment her father once made about losing two of his sisters. Her journey is exclusively personal as she uncovers her family’s secret history, but the investigation quickly takes unexpected becomes her professional wheelhouse.

Everett unearths a really historic legal case that included one of the earliest criminal profiles in america, the genesis of modern sex offender laws and regulations, and the last man sentenced to hang in California. Digging deeper and drawing on her experience with wrongful convictions, Everett after that raises detailed and haunting queries about if the regulators got the proper man. Having revived the situation to its rightful place ever sold, she leaves us with enduring concerns about the loss of life penalty then and today.

A trip chronicled through the mind of a lawyer and in the heart of a daughter, Little Shoes is both a captivating true crime story and a profoundly personal accounts of one family’s battle to deal with tragedy through the generations.