Kelly Pucci is the author of the book Camp Douglas: Chicago's Civil War Prison and numerous magazine articles about Chicago history. For the Chicago Public Schools website she wrote biographies of famous alums including: Eliot Ness, First Lady Michelle Obama, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, actor Harrison Ford and hundreds of other notable Chicago Public School graduates.
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
