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In November 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk, desperate to make friends, joined a group of teenagers drinking under a bridge in British Columbia, Canada. She never made it home. That night, eight of the teens, seven of them girls, attacked her. One girl put out a lit cigarette on her forehead while the others punched and kicked her. Bleeding, Reena managed to get away and started crossing the bridge toward home. But two of her attackers, 15-year-old Kelly Ellard and 16-year-old Warren Glowatski, a boy Reena had never even met, decided to follow her into the dark. They beat her unconscious and held her head underwater until she drowned. Her body was found eight days later. Six girls were convicted of assault for the first beating. Ellard and Glowatski were convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. In prison, Glowatski showed remorse. He met Reena's parents and apologized for helping kill their daughter. In 2010, he was granted full parole. It took three trials to convict Ellard, and for years she insisted she was innocent. In 2016, while still in prison, she got pregnant during a conjugal visit. A year later, she was granted day parole.