What in the world are we coming to that a ten year old boy feels an obligation, symbolic or otherwise, to rescue another person from a horrible death and that ten year old boy gets arrested?????
The ten year old was easier to arrest than Kevorkian who managed to kill a bunch of people before he was jailed.
Jane Austin, I suggest you dig into our previous monthies which will be filled with an abundance of discussions, links, and witnesses of events. You shouldn't have to go back far in the monthlies to get a good perspective and all the sources you can imagine.
I, too, am watching for June Maxam's book to come out. Meanwhile, if you tell what you are looking in sources, documents or specifics, it would be easier to point you to the details. A cornucopia exists. You will find plenty describing lovable Mikey. I have not read Diana Lynne's book, but she has done solid reporting on Terri and on other similar cases as well, and I expect it to be good, fair reading.
Here are a couple of recent previous threads to review:
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