NEW YORK -- Bernard Lefkowitz, an investigative journalist and author whose final book examined the gang rape of a mentally disabled girl by a group of popular high school students, has died. He was 66.
Lefkowitz died Friday of thymic carcinoma, a cancer of the thymic gland, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, his wife Rebecca Aikman said.
Lefkowitz's 1997 book, "Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb," explored the 1989 gang rape of a mentally disabled girl and an affluent New Jersey suburb's willingness to rally around the perpetrators.
A New York Times notable book of the year and an Edgar Award finalist, "Our Guys" was also made into a television movie starring Ally Sheedy and Eric Stoltz.
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