and Friend Go to Court A little more than a year in custody didn’t seem to have hurt the boys at all. A supervised diet and mandatory exercise helped Kevin lose some of his excess poundage, slimming him from obese to merely overweight. The same regimen had the opposite effect on Pierre, who was no longer painfully skinny and had filled out considerably. Tim had grown his hair long and arrived in court with a ponytail. The victim, all three accused and many of the witnesses were all under 18, which prevented the media from naming any of the people involved. Instead, they began to refer to trial as the “Jonathan” case, using the more conventional spelling of the victim’s first name. In news reports at the time, Kevin was usually called “the victim’s brother,” while Tim and Pierre were called his “friends.” Once the facts of the trial began to emerge, though, the media unfailingly referred to Tim as “Vampire Boy.” It was December 2, 2005, and the trial had been going on for about two weeks.
