Commentary: I produce true crime stories. I know what comes next for Highland Park, my hometown
On Memorial Day weekend in 1998, 14-year-old Nicole Van Hyfte was attending church in Danville, Illinois. It was where she and the other members of her youth group gathered every Sunday.
As the pastor told congregants to bow their heads, pain ripped through her body, smoke filled the church and her friends ended up covered in blood.
Nicole eventually learned that a local man, angry with the church and the community, placed a pipe bomb next to the building.
I know all of this because I am a producer, and I conducted a
