Todd L. Shulman works in law enforcement at the Napa Police Department. He has held positions within the department as a detective, training officer, crime scene specialist, corporal, and cold case investigator. Shulman formed the non-profit Napa Police Historical Society in 2006. John Boessenecker is the award-winning author of numerous books on crime and law enforcement in frontier California

The picturesque vineyards of California's Napa Valley, one of the world's premier tourist destinations, disguise a tangled history of lawlessness, depravity and frontier justice. Some crimes were committed over debts, some for retribution and others in th