She was the PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?
The cop wanted her car keys. Kelli Peters handed them over. She told herself she had nothing to fear, that all he’d find inside her PT Cruiser was beach sand, dog hair, maybe one of her daughter’s toys.
Christopher Goffard is an author and a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. He shared in the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s Bell coverage and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing, in 2007 and 2014. His novel “Snitch Jacket” was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel. His book “You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya,” based on his Times series, was published in 2011.
Eben McCue created animated content for the Los Angeles Times. McCue, a motion graphics artist, previously worked in Vancouver on a television series. A growing interest in infographics drew him to The Times, where he explored the potential of animated journalism. McCue graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in 2013 with a BFA in animation; he left The Times in February 2017.