Chapter 20 through 24 Summary and Analysis

In chapter twenty, Brian Rohrbough received a phone call from a friend. The photo of Danny's body on the high school lawn was on page 13 in the "Rocky Mountain News." He had not been notified by authorities. Brian went to the school and demanded Danny's body but the police refused and the body remained on the lawn, uncovered, for twenty-eight hours. The Bernalls went to the back perimeter and pleaded with an officer for news. He confirmed there were no students left alive in the school. At three that afternoon, police arrived with "tentative confirmation" that Dave Sanders was among the victims.

Police had thousands of potential witnesses and were looking for co-consipirators. The collection of evidence was a staggering task and the entire school treated as a crime scene. They stripped the boys' homes and found evidence to...