Close to Home: Sexual Abusers and Serial Killers, Memoir and Murder

On January 9, 2002, twelve-year-old Ashley Pond left her family's apartment in Oregon City, Oregon, to catch her bus to school. She vanished.

Ashley loved her single-parent mother, but she hated her drinking, and the father figures in her life had come and gone. So she had learned to rely on her friends.

Recently, however, things had become complicated: when she disappeared, many people believed she'd simply run away.

But Janine O'Neill had prosecuted crimes against children in Oregon City fo...