REDEMPTION. Not a word one would associate with Charles Manson, Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer. But what about an 11-year-old boy who, in 1889 in rural Iowa, murdered his abusive parents as they slept, sparing his one-year-old sister who was sleeping in the same bed?

“THE PLEA: The true story of Young Wesley Elkins and his struggle for Redemption,” might help you answer that question. Authors Patricia L. Bryan and Thomas Wolf join me now on this edition of Murder Most Foul.