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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 ...
Fire investigation, sometimes referred to as origin and cause investigation, is the analysis of fire-related incidents. After firefighters extinguish a fire, an investigation is launched to determine the origin and cause of the fire or explosion. [1] These investigations can occur in two stages.
Gerald "Jerry" Hurst (June 16, 1937 – March 11, 2015) was an American chemist and fire investigator. Before becoming noted for arson investigations, Hurst designed explosives for warfare, invented a binary explosive device known as Kinepak and developed an improved chemical compound to create Liquid Paper.
NFPA 921, "Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations", is a peer reviewed document that is published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Its purpose is "to establish guidelines and recommendations for the safe and systematic investigation or analysis of fire and explosion incidents" (section 1.2.1).
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 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 ...
Paul Leland Kirk (1902–1970), the author of the original text Fire Investigation, was the basis for Kirk's Fire Investigation. [4] Hired in 1984 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, he developed the first modern-day motive classification system for arson for the FBI. [5]
According to arson investigators, the answer depends on whether he acted with malicious intent and what damages the blaze ultimately causes. At 178,00 acres as of Friday, ...