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Andrei Leonidovich Zakharchenko (born 1978), known as the Kartaly Arsonist Maniac, is a Russian serial killer and arsonist who set fires around his hometown of Kartaly from the 2000s until 2014, killing 11 people. He was later convicted of these crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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. [ 5 ]
Pyromania is the second most common type of arson. [15] Common synonyms for pyromaniacs in colloquial English include firebug (US) and fire raiser (UK), but these also refer to arsonists. Pyromania is a rare disorder with an incidence of less than one percent in most studies; also, pyromaniacs hold a very small proportion of psychiatric ...
He was charged with multiple counts of arson, including using incendiary devices to start fires and arson causing great bodily injury. Five firefighters were hurt responding to the blaze, which ...
The blaze began at 1:20 a.m. Saturday in a house on Joe Parker Road, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, which investigated and found no signs of arson.
In contrast, Penal Code 452 describes what’s called “reckless” burning, starting a fire that causes injury or damages property without malicious intent. This type of arson can be charged as ...
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
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 thirty-year arson spree, most of them between 1984 and 1991, making him the most prolific ...