PAULA PACE worked as a beloved teacher’s aide for nearly 15 years – until she was unmasked as an unspeakable monster.
School officials at BCLUW High School in Conrad, Iowa, never for a moment suspected that Paula was part of a bloodthirsty Indianapolis family who tortured and killed a helpless foster child back in 1965.
Although she’d been convicted of second-degree murder in the terrifying crime, background checks – if there were any – never detected it.
Incredibly, the gruesome killing had not only gotten major news coverage but also spawned fiction and nonfiction books, a play and two movies – “An American Crime” and “The Girl Next Door.” But still no one in the school district seemed to have the slightest suspicion that the brute roamed freely among their precious children.