Knopf 
In December 1986, prosecutors in Pinellas County, Fla., had a problem. They had just failed to secure a death sentence against Jack Pearcy in the 1985 killing of 14-year-old Shelly Boggio.
The night before her nude body was found with 31 stab wounds, floating in the Intracoastal Waterway, Shelly had spent time drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana with Pearcy, his girlfriend and his two male roommates. Pearcy, a 31-year-old with an extensive history of violence against women,
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