Past proves future. This one gave me PTSD.

Late 80s, NYC.

Joel Steinberg. No one dug.

We might have learned then what we learned now.

Via wiki:

Joel Steinberg (born May 25, 1941) is a disbarred New York criminal defense attorney who attracted international media attention when he was accused of murder and convicted of manslaughter in the November 1, 1987 beating and subsequent death of a six-year-old girl, Elizabeth ("Lisa"), whom he and his live-in partner Hedda Nussbaum had illegally adopted. Steinberg had reportedly been hired by a single mother named Michele Launders to locate a suitable adoptive family for Lisa, but he instead took the child home and raised her with Nussbaum. He never filed formal adoption papers and the child was not legally adopted.