19 May 1990: The popularity of celebrity-endorsed footwear is proving dangerous
We did not really understand what was under way when the story was first aired on our local TV news that a schoolboy had been killed for his shoes. Michael Thomas was 15, and his barefoot and strangled body was found in the woods near his high school, not far from our home.
This being the suburbs of Washington DC, murder capital of the country where we average 10 killings a week, one more death hardly registered... except for that detail about his being barefoot. And in a comment to a local reporter, his family said something about people being jealous of his new shoes.
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