By Michael Thomas Barry This week (September 29 - October 5) in crime history – Cyanide laced Tylenol kills six in Chicago (September 29, 1982); Polly Klaas was abducted from her home in California (October 1, 1993); Suicide bomber strikes in Bali (October 1, 2005); Nazi war c
By Michael Thomas Barry
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is OConnor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Also available from Amazon
