Journalist and Author (Bernard) Lefkowitz Dies

[Khephra]

NEW YORK -- Bernard Lefkowitz, an investigative journalist and author whose final book examined the gang rape of a mentally disabled girl by a group of popular high school students, has died. He was 66.

Lefkowitz died Friday of thymic carcinoma, a cancer of the thymic gland, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, his wife Rebecca Aikman said.

Lefkowitz's 1997 book, "Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb," explored the 1989 gang rape of a mentally disabled girl and an affluent New Jersey suburb's willingness to rally around the perpetrators.

A New York Times notable book of the year and an Edgar Award finalist, "Our Guys" was also made into a television movie starring Ally Sheedy and Eric Stoltz.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-obit-lefkowitz,0,3722335.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[burrowowl]

1. Ubi dubium ibi

Yes we need more doubt from our journalist. Liberty is going out the window at warp speed.
Sad to see an investigative reporter go, there are so few of them.

[belle]

2. Oh, hell. I'm sorry.

That was an important (not to mention very disturbing) book. He'll be missed.