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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 ...
Cameron Todd Willingham (January 9, 1968 – February 17, 2004) was an American man who was convicted and executed for the murder of his three young children by arson at the family home in Corsicana, Texas, on December 23, 1991.
The Happy Land fire was an act of arson that killed 87 people on March 25, 1990, in the Bronx in New York City, United States.The 87 victims were trapped in the unlicensed Happy Land social club, located at 1959 Southern Boulevard in the West Farms section of the Bronx.
Investigators determined it was arson, and Marq Vincent Perez, a Victoria resident who was 24 at the time, was charged with setting the blaze, which federal authorities deemed a hate crime.
The more recent police investigations, though, found that April Atkins signed in shortly before 5 p.m. the day of the murder; Hibbs was believed killed between 12:30 and shortly after 1 p.m. which ...
Vallejo police released images of a person of interest in an arson case at a Target that caused more than $3 million in damages and merchandise loss at the chain store.
On July 5, 1984, state Public Safety Secretary Charles V. Barry announced that a preliminary investigation indicated the cause of the fire to be arson. [8] [1] According to investigators, the fire was caused by gasoline-soaked newspapers that had been lit in an alcove adjacent to the front entrance to the rooming house. [9] The prime suspect in ...
Robert Rowe, owner of Pyrocop, Inc., a Southern California based private fire investigation company, said some legal experts in the world of arson have suggested penalty enhancements for offenses ...