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A friend called Judy Gray on the morning of April 7, 1996, to tell her that her 19-year-old daughter Amanda had been beaten up at a party the night before. "I told her, if you hear from Amanda, please get her to call me," says Mrs. Gray, who lives in Bonnyville, 126 miles northeast of Edmonton. A few hours later, another friend phoned. "She said 'Don't panic, but they just found a girl's body at La Corey,'" Mrs. Gray recalls. The next morning, Mrs. Gray saw a police car pull past her window. "I told my other daughter, 'He's not pulling in the driveway, is he?' She said, 'Yes, mom, he is.'"
The previous morning, Amanda had been found propped up against a fence in La Corey, a hamlet a few miles north of Bonnyville. She had died of exposure in the parking lot of a truck stop. A few days later, the three girls who beat Amanda...