Always in Our Hearts
The Story of Amy Grossberg, Brian Peterson, the Pregnancy They Hid, and the Baby They Killed
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The true story of high school sweethearts driven to kill their newborn child—and the murder trial that shocked the nation. Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson grew up in a wealthy New Jersey suburb. Meeting and falling in love while still in high school, they set off for college like most of their classmates. But in November of their freshman year, the two young lovers spent a night in a Delaware motel room where, after hiding her pregnancy from her family and her friends for nine months, Amy gave birth to a baby boy. Only she and Brian knew the child even existed . . . until the next morning when the newborn's corpse turned up in the motel dumpster. The case cause nationwide outrage, and the teenagers ended up in court, desperately fighting for their lives—and ultimately against each other.
Doug Most
Doug Most, a native of Rhode Island, is a lifelong journalist and author whose career has spanned newspapers, magazines, and universities up and down the East Coast, with stops in Washington, DC; South Carolina; New Jersey; and Boston. He was named Journalist of the Year while at The Record in Bergen County, New Jersey, for his coverage of a tragic story about two teens charged with killing their newborn, a story he turned into a true-crime book titled Always in Our Hearts. After a stint at Boston Magazine, he worked for fifteen years at The Boston Globe, as the Sunday Magazine editor, and deputy managing editor/special projects. His articles have appeared in Best American Sports Writing and Best American Crime Writing. His 2014 nonfiction book, The Race Underground, told the story about the birth of subways in America, in the late 1800s and was adapted into a PBS/American Experience documentary. The New York Times called the book “a sweeping narrative of late-19th-century intrigue.” He works now as the executive editor and an assistant vice president at Boston University. He holds a BA from George Washington University in political communication.
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