Adrian Hawthorne's movie still business had recently stabilized. He only handled developing the photos, while the sales were contracted out to a few local delinquents. Their leader was a seventeen-year-old unemployed youth named Winston Lowell, whose family worked at the county's machine tool factory.
The other delinquents were also children of city factory workers, but they didn't come from well-off families. Most of their households were single-income with many children, creating a heavy financial burden. They hadn't done well in school, becoming unemployed before even finishing high school, and they all hung around with Winston Lowell.
