Posts Tagged ‘Firefighters’
Defendant in Firefighters’ Tragedy Gets a Re-Sentencing Hearing
For the first time in nearly 20 years, details of one of the city’s most enduring tragedies are about to play out once again in a Kansas City courtroom. Bryan Sheppard, one of five defendants convicted in the 1988 arson deaths of six Kansas City firefighters, will be asking a federal judge next month for…
Read MoreCommentary | Putting a ‘solid rocket booster’ on my journalism
Last month, KCPT presented the play “Justice in the Embers” with the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Living Room Theatre in a unique StoryWorks KC production. In this piece, which was first commissioned and published by CIR’s Reveal News, KCPT reporter Mike McGraw looks inside the newsroom at the process of taking his investigative reporting and putting it on…
Read MoreCommentary | A KC crime, a Netflix doc, and justice
Editor’s Note: This commentary by KC criminal-defense attorney Cyndy Short is part of a larger effort by KCPT and The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) to explore the meaning of justice in the context of the 1988 explosion in south Kansas City that killed six Kansas City firefighters. The effort, called StoryWorks KC, includes a…
Read MoreCommentary | ‘But The Questions Sure Do Linger.’
Editor’s Note: This commentary, from Washington Post reporter Tom Jackman, is part of a larger effort by KCPT and The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) to explore the meaning of justice in the context of the 1988 explosion in south Kansas City that killed six Kansas City firefighters. The effort, called StoryWorks KC, includes a stage production about…
Read MoreSupreme Court Decision Has Repercussions for KC Man Serving Life Sentence
The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for a resentencing hearing in the case of a Kansas City man serving a life sentence in federal prison for a 1988 explosion that killed six Kansas City firefighters. Bryan Sheppard, one of five defendants serving life sentences after their 1997 convictions in federal court, will now…
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