Sixteen-year-old Pruett was found dead behind her boyfriend Dan Dreifort’s home in the early morning hours of September 14th, 1990. She had been stabbed 21 times with a knife-like object that has never been found. However, attention focused on Young instead, after classmates of Dreifort’s went to police the next morning, claiming Young had threatened Pruett. Not one piece of evidence linked Young to the crime scene. The prosecutor on the case was Carmen Marino, who was caught withholding evidence in the Joe D’Ambrosio case, an action which sent D’Ambrosio to Death Row for twenty years before he was freed.
Young worked as a house painter in Shaker Heights for many years and complained that he couldn’t even get a date because people still assumed he had something to do with Pruett’s murder.
You can read more about Young in our July 2008 feature on the case.
More information including police reports and witness testimony can also be found at http://lisapruett.blogspot.com.
This article appears in Feb 22-28, 2017.
I hope he left a note that will debunk all your conspiracy theory crap that has caused people so much pain. Lisa’s murderer is dead. Drinks on me.
How unfortunate that the writer chose to frame the story in such a slanted manner, and the editors allowed it. The piece omits evidence pointing away from Dreifort, evidence available to the prosecutors when they decided whom to charge. Shame on Scene.
Just because police charged him with a crime doesn’t mean he actually committed a crime. That decision is made by a jury and they decided Kevin Young was innocent. The jury had far more information about the case than you two bozos.
James Renner once again dragging names of acquitted and innocent people into the mud.
It isn’t bad enough you have to discredit innocent people and ruin their lives when they’re alive.
What the hell kind of news article is this? You are a miserable person James Renner.
This article is what we have now been calling “alternative facts”, aka lies. The only truth in the article is that Kevin Young has apparently died. News that will allow many to sleep better at night. May Lisa’s memory be a blessing to us all and may she rest in peace. This publication should be ashamed of itself. Even if Kevin wasn’t convicted, to run such a slanted story is inexcusable.
Hey Stan, read the story citing post trial interviews with the jury before opening your pie hole. They clearly thought he was guilty but couldn’t convince everyone beyond a reasonable doubt. They didn’t think he was innocent.
Nice, objective journalism there. I used to hang out with both of them. Dan Dreifort wouldn’t hurt a fly, and Kevin Young was a violent misogynist. One time, Kevin actually left a party at my house in the middle of the night to go bang on the windows of a girl who’d jilted him, scaring the shit out of her. You posted the FBI interviews with Kevin on your site Renner. Did you skip the part where the FBI interrogators laid out their rationale that it was actually Young? You’re a shitbag Renner.
Why does the Scene give bottom-dwelling dirtbag James Renner a platform for his alt-facts? Kevin Young was a cat-murdering, teen-girl assulting, fake bomb threat calling sociopath at best, and almost certainly a killer. Way to write an obit painting him as a victim while casting shade on others. Renner is out to line his own pockets. Sad.
Why is this even being published? He died over a month ago! Good riddance.
Having dealings with Mr. Dreifort I would also ask about his stint as a mental patient, his written threats against her etc. there is nothing wrong with this article. I do know there is currently a $50,000.00 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Mr. Dreifort coming from a group of individuals including myself that he has been harassing and trolling. Obviously his behavior is catching up to him.