Death Came Knocking: The Rush to Judgment in a Small Murder Trial

It's every parents' worst nightmare. Shortly after noon on Saturday, January 26, 2002, South Youngstown police arrested Phil and Joy Foreman's son, Phil Jr. As the tight-lipped eighteen-year-old was cuffed and carted away in the back of a squad car, the husband and wife looked at each other, ignoring the peering eyes of their nosy neighbors, and asked themselves the only question a parent can at such a moment: Why? The answers were as close as their front stoop in the very next morning's issue of The Cape March Times: Police Arrest Five Suspects in South Youngstown Slaying.