Book Signing - Cathy Lingenfelter - The Girl Across the Street
Sun, Oct 04
|Werner Books and Coffee
Time & Location
Oct 04, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Werner Books and Coffee, 3608 Liberty St, Erie, PA 16508, USA
About the event
Book Signing
Cathy Lingenfelter
The Girl Across the Street
Sunday, 10/4 from 2-4 PM
The Girl Across the Street is a harrowing true-crime memoir that recounts the devastating abduction and murder of five-year-old Lila Doreen Ebright in Erie, Pennsylvania, in April 1992. Written by her aunt, Cathy Lingenfelter, the book provides a raw, firsthand perspective on the frantic search for a missing child who vanished from a "safe" neighborhood, only to be found murdered two weeks later in a dumpster just two blocks from her home. It details the chilling reality that the perpetrator, seventeen-year-old neighbor Scott Schroat, was someone the family knew and trusted, having even joined them in the search for the little girl he had already killed.
In the spring of 1992, a quiet residential block in Erie, Pennsylvania, was shattered by an unimaginable tragedy. Five-year-old Lila Doreen Ebright, a joyful kindergartener who loved Mickey Mouse and…