On May 30, 1992, 21-year-old Kristin Lardner was murdered in
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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, by her ex-boyfriend Michael Cartier, who later killed himself.
The incident was also known as the Brookline murder. Cartier stalked and shot Lardner, who had a restraining order against him, before shooting himself.
Lardner's father
George
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later released a book about the murder, called ''The Stalking of Kristin: A Father Investigates the Murder of His Daughter'', receiving a Pulitzer Prize.
Cartier was a punk rock enthusiast who, a month prior to the murder, had tried to attack
Kathleen Hanna
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of
Bikini Kill
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at a show.
He was described as "a nightclub bouncer with a short fuse".
See also
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List of homicides in Massachusetts
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1992 deaths
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People murdered in Massachusetts
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