and in boston to bpl. they have thousands of articles about him. at the time boston hide 250 newspapers and magazines and it was a good time to be a journalist that then. you can find thousands of articles. took me about three years to collect everything. >> after the fire that destroyed the city do you go into that anymore or is it really the backdrop of jesse story? >> it is mostly the backdrop. by the time the fire happened in 1872. people tend to know a little bit more about the fire that happened in chicago in 187110 to be the most famous kind of countrywide fire. the boston fire is not well known. the person dealing not with the cheese in the city. when the fire took place in sort of parallel in chelsea. they have been pretty much destroyed from the downtown area all the way down to the waterfront. the city was busy trying to rebuild. they have been in a poor section of the city. people didn't pay too much attention to children going missing and were children being abused by other children. for places to work. it was more important to get bac

the state reform school nowadays is called the lyman state school for boys and the boston bpl. they have thousands of articles written about him. at the time boston had probably 250 newspapers and magazines. it was really good time to be a journalist back then if you will. so you can find thousands of articles. it took me about three years to collect everything. >> the fire that destroyed the city, do you go into that anymore or is it the backdrop of jesse story? >> it is mostly the backdrop. by the time the fire happened in 1872 i don't know how much people knew about it. people tend to know more about the fire that happened in chicago in 1871. it tends to be the most famous countrywide fire but the boston fire is not well-known. the person i was dealing with that was the chief the fire chief here in the city. at the time when the fire took place is sort of parallels the crimes that were happening in chelsea. people really weren't paying much attention to what jesse was doing and to what jesse did because the city had been pretty much destroyed from the downtown area to the wa