lovers' lane

Or a teenage couple was battered to death in a lovers’ lane attack.

“There used to be two rows of pine trees and a sidewalk with benches. It was called Lovers’ Lane.

Honestly, some of the stories about lovers’ lane crimes were grotesquely salacious.

Several TV shows and films have been built around lovers’ lane crimes, like a 1964 episode of the hipster show “77 Sunset Strip” and the exceptional 1995 Oscar-winning Sean Penn film “Dead Man Walking,” about an inmate sentenced to die for his part in the abduction and murders of two parked teenagers.

For at least eight years in the 1950s, he returned every March 24 to a San Bernardino lovers’ lane, where his teenage sweetheart, Angela Dornna, had once promised to meet him.