This week (December 18 – 24) in crime history: John Kehoe, last of the Molly Maguires was executed (December 18, 1878); Socialite Sunny von Bulow was found comatose (December 21, 1980); Pan Am 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland (December 21, 1988); John Wayne Gacy confessed
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
