Zachary Connor was a 12-year-old rapist, burglar, and murderer. He convinced his friend Jeremy Brice to help him burglarize the apartment of a woman named Susan Oestreicher he mistook for a drug dealer. When the woman came home and interrupted him, he demanded to know where she kept her drug money. He beat her with a telephone and raped her. Finally, Jeremy gave him a kitchen knife, and Zachary stabbed her with it 38 times. Zachary agreed to testify against his accomplice, who in turn blamed him for the crime.