Part of the police and prosecutors theory on the boys motives?
“Prosecutors have also claimed that the killing was spurred by the boys’ obsession with role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. At one court hearing, the owner of a game store testified that players get points when they ‘kill’ people while playing Dungeons & Dragons. “Prosecutor Summer Stephan suggested that the words ‘kill kill,’ found on a windowsill in Stephanie’s bedroom, were evidence that the boys were proudly proclaiming their victory in a game of death.” (1) The boys were subjected to questioning for as many as 10 to 12 hours at a time, sometimes overnight, lied to, misled to believe their parents thought them involved in the murder and that their friends were framing them for the murder, denied food and sleep, separated from their parents, and denied their Miranda rights to coerce confessions from them, which were the prime evidence against them. As a jury was being selected for their trial, new evidence came to light. Stephanie Crowe’s blood was found spattered on the swe
