David Lohr is a feature writer for the Discovery Channel, where he heads up the Criminal Report, a true crime site that gives readers a daily dose of the latest and most probing investigations. He gained national prominence in 2003 when a long-elusive serial murderer read one of his articles about the decades-long mystery of Wichita, Kansas's "BTK" Killer. After reading Lohr's account of the unsolved crimes, Dennis Rader made some key modifications to the story-based on his first-hand knowledge and mailed his edited version to the media, along with evidence that he was the BTK Killer. Two years later, the seemingly upstanding Rader confessed to murdering 10 people between 1974 and 1991. For more information visit: www.davidlohr.net
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
