After just nine months in town, she was voted the most popular girl at Western Junior High School.

CNN: Moxley Case: Who was Martha Moxley?

It's a fusion of word and film that has taken the interior life of a teenage girl, and a small town on the Western edge of the United States, and placed them at the center of the world.

FORBES: Medialand

In addition to the Sparks case, a five-year-old girl was shot and killed by her eight-year-old brother in western Alaska on Tuesday, while a seven-year-old boy shot his sister, nine, in the leg in Auburn, Washington state, on Thursday.

BBC: Kentucky boy, 5, shot dead sister, 2, with child gun