Playing With Fire: The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal

A beautiful nurse. A lethal injection. A gruesomely charred corpse. Nothing could have shocked the sleepy community of Morgantown West Virginia more than the lurid details that surfaced after a house fire claimed the life of Shelly Michaels husband Jimmy. Local authorities suspected possible arson. Then they discovered that Jimmy had been dead before the fire even startedparalyzed by a fatal dose of muscle relaxant Did Shelly Michael a respected nurse and mother kill her second husband and torch her own home? Were the rumors true that shed had an affair with her husbands employee only two weeks before the murder? Or did she kill Jimmy simply for the insurance money? Charged with first-degree murder and first-degree arson Shelly would never stop claiming her innocenceeven to this day