Tobi Shields is a crime historian. She has a Bachelor of History from California State University, Sacramento, and actively researches cold cases of Napa County. She is currently writing a manuscript detailing the life and crimes of the last man hanged in Napa County. Her work has appeared in the North Bay Bohemian and the CSUS history journal, Clio.
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
