Innocence Lost

Carlton Stowers

May 2004 · Sold by St. Martin's Paperbacks

About this ebook

Undercover officer George Raffield's job was to pose as a student in the small town of Midlothian, Texas and infiltrate the high school drug ring. When Raffield's cover became suspect, word spread through a small circle of friends that the young officer would pay with his life. No one stopped it. On a rainy fall evening in 1987, Raffield was lured to an isolated field. Three bullets were fired-one unloaded into his skull. The baby-faced killer, Greg Knighten, stole eighteen dollars from Raffield's wallet, divided it among his two young accomplices, and calmly said, "it's done."

With chilling detail, Carlton Stowers illuminates a dark corner of America's heartland and the children who hide there. What he found was an alienated subculture of drug abuse, the occult, and an unfathomable teenage rage that exploded at point blank range on a shocking night of lost innocence...

Ratings and reviews

Midlothian, Texas isn't accustomed to many murders. After the unimaginable and terrifying murder of Teri "Missy" Bevers in the church by the killer dressed in SWAT POLICE costume I looked up the few murders that have also happened in the town. This was a senseless and awful killing of a young new police officer who was going to be a big name in no time for busting drug dealers and getting the drugs out of towns in Texas. The killer and his weapon of choice will leave you shaking your head.

About the author

Carlton Stowers is the author of more than two dozen works of nonfiction, including the Edgar Award-winning Careless Whispers, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Innocence Lost, and Open Secrets. He and his wife live in Cedar Hill, Texas.