Alligator Candy (25 page)

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PECIAL THANKS TO
Jofie Ferrari-Adler, Jonathan Karp, Alessandra Bastagli, David McCormick, Mary Ann Naples, and everyone at Simon & Schuster for making this book possible. Thank you to my friends and family for their love and support. I'm deeply grateful to all those who shared their memories with me for this book and helped my family through our most difficult time.

© GASPER TRINGALE

DAVID KUSHNER
is the author of
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture; Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas; Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb; Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto; The Bones of Marianna: A Reform School, a Terrible Secret, and a Hundred-Year Fight for Justice; Prepare to Meet Thy Doom: And More True Gaming Stories;
and
The World's Most Dangerous Geek: And Other True Hacking Stories.

A Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University, Kushner has written for publications including
The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ, The New York Times Magazine
, and
Rolling Stone
, where he is a contributing editor. The winner of the New York Press Club award for Best Feature Reporting, Kushner is featured in
The Best American Crime Reporting
, and
The Columbia Journalism Review's Best Business Writing
anthologies.
The Bones of Marianna
was chosen by Amazon as a Best Digital Single of 2013.

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ALSO BY DAVID KUSHNER

The World's Most Dangerous Geek: And Other True Hacking Stories

Prepare to Meet Thy Doom: And More True Gaming Stories

The Bones of Marianna: A Reform School, a Terrible Secret, and a Hundred-Year Fight for Justice

Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto

Levittown:
Two Families,
One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb

Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kushner, David, 1968– author.

Alligator candy : a memoir / by David Kushner.

pages cm

1. Kushner, Jonathan Mark, 1962–1973. 2. Murder victims—Florida—Tampa—Biography. 3. Murder victims' families—Florida—Tampa—Biography. 4. Children of anthropologists—Biography. 5. Kushner, David, 1968– I. Title.

HV6534.T36K87 2016

362.88—dc23

2015022792

ISBN 978-1-4516-8253-3

ISBN 978-1-4516-8263-2 (ebook)