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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 April 26, 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 30 year arson spree, most of them between 1984 and 1991, making him the most prolific serial ...
Paul Kenneth Keller (born January 6, 1966) is a serial arsonist and convicted murderer [1] from Lynnwood, Washington. [2] He is serving 107 years in prison and will be eligible for parole in 2079. He was convicted of setting over 107 fires and admitted to setting over 76 of them [ 3 ] making him one of the most prolific serial arsonists in ...
A person who commits arson is referred to as an arsonist, or a serial arsonist if the person has committed arson several times. Arsonists normally use an accelerant (such as gasoline or kerosene ) to ignite, propel, and direct fires, and the detection and identification of ignitable liquid residues is an important part of fire investigations. [ 6 ]
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A Lebanon man awaiting trial in Montgomery County on arson charges out of Upper Moreland is facing new arson charges out of Abington, which authorities allege took place the day before the Upper ...
A New York man was sentenced to 46 months in prison in Cincinnati's U.S. District Court Tuesday for possessing an unregistered incendiary device, which he used to light a woman's car on fire in ...
Ernest Ray Willis (b. c. 1945 - January 7, 2021) [1] was an American man who spent 17 years on death row for murder by arson before being exonerated in 2004. Convicted of murder after two women died in a fire in his West Texas home, Willis was sentenced to death in 1987. In 1991, another person confessed to starting the fire, but this could not ...