In the summer of 2009, Danny Svilar, a troubled 15-year-old, arrived at a prestigious California rehabilitation facility after his mother staged an intervention following a devastating shopping addiction that had racked up £250,000 on his father's credit card.
What he encountered in that first rehab room would become an unsettling window into the mind of someone the world would later know as an accused killer. His roommate was Nick Reiner—and from the beginning, something felt deeply wrong.
