JoAnn Parks
I came across this case when I was reading a book called “Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime that Wasn't” by Edward Humes. Much like the book I read recently on the murder of Roger “Scott” Dunn, the case did not end when the book did. In the latter case there had been a prosecution without a body. The book was published in 2005 and in 2012 Scott Dunn's body was finally found. Humes' book was the story of a woman who was convicted of starting a fire that killed her three children. This is one of those cases in which I was glad I read the book to know more of the story because while researching the case online there was not as much information as was provided by the book. Burned was published in 2019 and argued that JoAnn Parks had been wrongly convicted of murder. The book very much dove into the investigation that was later taken over by the California Innocent Project (CIP) as well as what had been discovered about the nature of fire since the “crime” had oc