Crime By The Book: Killer Show

On February 20, 2003, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock standard, the fate of 462 unsuspecting nightclub patrons was determined with awful certainty. That night, the fourth-deadliest club fire in U.S. history occurred at a roadhouse in West Warwick, Rhode Island, called "The Station." The blaze was ignited when pyrotechnics set off by Great White, an 80s heavy-metal band, lit flammable polyurethane "egg-crate" foam sound insulation on the club's walls. In less than five minutes, 96… Show more people were burned alive and 200 more were injured, many catastrophically. The final death toll topped out, three months later, at the eerily unlikely round number of 100.
Hear the story of the fire, its causes, and its legal and human-tragedy aftermath at a free multi-media presentation by John Barylick, author of Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert. Recently published by University Press of New England, Killer Show is the first comprehensive exploration of the chain of events leading up to the fire, the conflagration itself, and the painstaking search for evidence to hold the guilty to account and obtain justice for the victims.
John Barylick is an attorney who represented victims in numerous wrongful death and personal injury cases arising from the Station nightclub fire. His work was instrumental in amassing 176 million dollars in settlements from persons and corporations responsible for the fire. Mr. Barylick is a frequent lecturer at medical and legal seminars and is the recipient of the 2006 Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association Award for Professionalism.
Watch an interview with author John Barylick on QATV.
Copies of the book will be available for sale after the presentation.
Location: Main Library Community Meeting Room (ground floor)

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