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The worst of the worst

The high-school dance was supposed to be a night to dress up, catch up with friends after the summer holidays, mark the start of a new school year.

And one teenager – a 16-year-old known only as Jane Doe – woke up particularly excited on 24 October 2009.

A top student, she’d been waiting all summer for the school dance at Richmond High School, California.

Jane pulled out her sparkly, lavender-coloured dress from the wardrobe.

Her dad had bought it especially for the occasion.

Said she was ‘so

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