Prologue

Introduction
     Try to remember the last 17 years of your life. That's 6,205 days with your family and friends or at work. Recall birthdays, holidays and the leisure time for playing golf or other hobbies or vacation trips, for example. What emotion would you feel if all of those events had been taken away? Why do I ask? Read the case of "Seventeen Years" and you will learn how it happened and why.

     Green's account to the police of what happened that night included a cheeseburger and seeing a dark-skinned man. One of the first officers to arrive at the scene made note of a Jack in the Box bag and its undisturbed contents, still warm to the touch.