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Thomas Anthony Sweatt is a convicted serial arsonist. He has set over 350 fires in and around Washington, D.C. most of which occurred in 2003 and 2004, making him one of the most prolific serial arsonists in American history. Following his arrest in April 2005, Sweatt admitted to setting fires for more than 30 years.
John Leonard Orr (born 1948 or 1949) [1] is an American convicted serial arsonist, mass murderer and former firefighter.A fire captain and arson investigator in Glendale, California, Orr was convicted of serial arson and four counts of murder; [2] he is believed to have set nearly 2,000 fires in a thirty-year arson spree, most of them between 1984 and 1991, making him the most prolific serial ...
Lee was born as Peter George Dinsdale in Manchester, the son of a sex worker. [2] Lee was brought up in children's homes [3] and suffered from epilepsy [4] and congenital spastic hemiplegia in his right limbs, which left him with a limp in his right leg and a compulsion to hold his right arm across his chest. [5]
Derrick Todd Lee (November 5, 1968 – January 21, 2016), also known as The Baton Rouge Serial Killer, was an American serial killer who, from 1998 to 2003, terrorized the areas surrounding Baton Rouge and Lafayette, Louisiana, by committing the murders of at least seven women.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Debudey Family/Stockton PD/Lopez FamilySix dead and one survivor. One grainy piece of surveillance footage. The trail of death left by a suspected serial ...
One of the first American profilers was FBI agent John E. Douglas, who was also instrumental in developing the behavioral science method of law enforcement. [3]The ancestor of modern profiling, R. Ressler (FBI), considered profiling as a process of identifying all the psychological characteristics of an individual, forming a general description of the personality, based on the analysis of the ...
A suspect in a string of fires in downtown L.A. was arrested. One blaze required 170 firefighters to extinguish and caused $7 million in damage.
How did a Boston nurse end up developing the FBI's modern day psychological profile for serial killers? Hulu's "Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer" shares 87-year-old Dr. Ann Burgess' story of ...