Case Closed | Killer Kids
Why Tragic Murder of Boy By Friends Happened After Juveniles Take Life
The case of a Washington teenager killed by his pre-teen “pals.”
“With friends like these, who needs enemies?”
Indeed, sometimes in life, the people we consider our best buddies could wind up being our worst enemies.
That’s one harsh lesson the family of a Washington teenager tragically and needlessly found out the hard way nearly two decades ago.
Craig Sorger was born on February 10, 1990, in Everett, Washington, and grew up in Ephrata, Grant County, Washington, a small town of around 6,000 people, with his mother, Lisa, his father, Chuck, and his younger brother, Keith. Although he was “mildly autistic” and a special education student, he lived a very average life. A bright, sweet, and affectionate kid, Craig loved the outdoors and animals, had a great sense of humor and a passion for race cars, video games, and science. He could even “make the lights work on a broken VCR,” according to his mother.
“Can he come out and play?”
On a gray and drizzly mid-afternoon of February 15, 2003, five days after Craig’s 13th birthday, Lisa answered the…
