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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:07,310 --> 00:00:09,550 The average fireman, that's their job. 2 00:00:10,110 --> 00:00:14,270 For a pyromaniac, it's their life. He is consumed by it. 3 00:00:14,790 --> 00:00:21,590 A guy like that has such a mass, such a facade of normality, that it's almost 4 00:00:21,590 --> 00:00:24,490 impossible to detect something is wrong. 5 00:00:26,770 --> 00:00:31,530 The fact that he seems to set all his fires in crowded places during the day 6 00:00:31,530 --> 00:00:34,110 where people could potentially die is important. 7 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:40,200 much, much more dramatic, and it's much more stimulating, much more eroticized 8 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:41,240 for the pyromaniac. 9 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,019 Welcome to Very Scary People. 10 00:01:04,540 --> 00:01:05,540 I'm Donnie Wahlberg. 11 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,380 On October 10th, 1984, flames swept through a crowded store in California, 12 00:01:10,740 --> 00:01:13,040 trapping some employees and shoppers inside. 13 00:01:13,460 --> 00:01:16,960 There was panic and confusion, and not everyone escaped in time. 14 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,620 Investigators combed through the debris to try to establish the cause. 15 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,320 Was this an accident or arson? 16 00:01:23,700 --> 00:01:26,760 More mysterious fires followed, and a pattern emerged. 17 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:28,960 There was an arsonist on the loose. 18 00:01:29,260 --> 00:01:33,620 Now the hunt was on. This is part one of The Fire Starter. 19 00:01:47,860 --> 00:01:53,640 Ole's Home Center in South Pasadena was big and had pretty much anything you 20 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,460 could think of from cheap tools to Christmas lights. 21 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,380 It was actually in a building that had once housed a grocery store and a drug 22 00:02:02,380 --> 00:02:03,380 store. 23 00:02:03,540 --> 00:02:08,180 They cut two holes in the wall between the two stores and put a couple of roll 24 00:02:08,180 --> 00:02:11,900 -up doors in there so that people can go in between, and those things will drop 25 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:13,740 down as soon as there's a fire. 26 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:18,640 The roll -up doors would stop the fire from spreading from one side of the 27 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:19,640 to the other. 28 00:02:21,940 --> 00:02:26,040 On October 10, 1984, there were dozens of people in the Ole's hardware store, 29 00:02:26,180 --> 00:02:29,580 among them employees and shoppers. 30 00:02:31,420 --> 00:02:34,340 I was 19 and just started working full -time. 31 00:02:34,780 --> 00:02:38,680 I could have never imagined that evening. It would have totally changed 32 00:02:46,090 --> 00:02:50,130 The store was pretty quiet that evening because it was the game two of the World 33 00:02:50,130 --> 00:02:51,130 Series. 34 00:02:53,810 --> 00:02:56,970 Billionaire to deal. They live in the neighborhood, and they're babysitting 35 00:02:56,970 --> 00:02:58,210 their grandson, Matthew Troy. 36 00:02:58,430 --> 00:03:01,730 And decide that, hey, you know, it's a nice sort of warm night. 37 00:03:02,070 --> 00:03:04,190 Let's go down to Oli's and do some shopping. 38 00:03:05,810 --> 00:03:10,550 Of course, little Matthew isn't really having it, doesn't want to be in the 39 00:03:10,550 --> 00:03:12,450 cart. And they say, oh, don't worry. 40 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:15,420 We'll get you some ice cream. We'll take you to Baskin -Robbins. 41 00:03:17,820 --> 00:03:22,660 Ada and Matthew, grandmother and grandson, are perusing aisles in the 42 00:03:22,660 --> 00:03:28,020 department. And Billy is up in the tools section, which is in a completely other 43 00:03:28,020 --> 00:03:29,020 part of the store. 44 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,920 All of a sudden I heard somebody yelling, hey, we need to clear the 45 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,000 need to get out of the store. 46 00:03:41,290 --> 00:03:45,110 I looked over and noticed that there was a column of smoke. 47 00:03:50,230 --> 00:03:52,970 I went back over to the hardware department all the way in the back of 48 00:03:52,970 --> 00:03:57,130 and saw a couple of customers, told them, hey, we need to leave the store 49 00:03:57,130 --> 00:03:58,130 now. 50 00:04:00,990 --> 00:04:05,630 Jim Obdom encounters Ada and Matthew in one of the aisles. 51 00:04:06,140 --> 00:04:11,060 And there was a lady with her grandchild in the very last row of the department 52 00:04:11,060 --> 00:04:12,920 that was looking at the merchandise. 53 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,880 And I told her that we needed to leave the store, that there was an emergency. 54 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,440 And he asked her to follow him, and he began walking towards the closest fire 55 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:22,440 door to them. 56 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:30,120 And I told her, take your grandson out of the cart, because we need to move 57 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:31,560 quickly out of the store. 58 00:04:32,190 --> 00:04:35,850 As we were walking down the main aisle, I looked over to the right and saw that 59 00:04:35,850 --> 00:04:38,310 that pillar of smoke was not a pillar of smoke anymore. 60 00:04:39,290 --> 00:04:40,770 It was a wall of flame. 61 00:04:41,850 --> 00:04:46,350 As he walked towards that fire door, the fire door suddenly came down. 62 00:04:46,730 --> 00:04:53,030 I was trapped because two roll of doors closed on me, blocking my way from one 63 00:04:53,030 --> 00:04:55,130 side of the door to the other building. 64 00:04:55,490 --> 00:04:58,590 It traps them in this building. 65 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,080 that a raging blaze is just about to consume. 66 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:11,300 And as I see the flames on one side of me, all of a sudden the light flickered 67 00:05:11,300 --> 00:05:16,220 and turned off, and everything turned black, and it was just an orange glow. 68 00:05:18,140 --> 00:05:20,780 You have nothing on your mind but sheer panic. 69 00:05:21,660 --> 00:05:26,040 He's hoping he can save this grandmother and her grandbaby, but he also knows 70 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,060 he's got to get out of there. 71 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:32,000 I went so fast that I don't even remember seeing the lady with her 72 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,200 there. I lost her. 73 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:39,300 It was pitch black in the store, and I couldn't see anything really. So at that 74 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:41,640 point in time, I just prayed and said, you know, Lord, get me out of here. 75 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,220 It was just totally chaos. 76 00:05:49,180 --> 00:05:51,880 And I was trying to figure out where to go from here. 77 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:55,680 I headed toward the back wall. 78 00:05:56,300 --> 00:05:59,400 and built my way along the aisle in the dark. 79 00:06:00,140 --> 00:06:02,120 It just seemed incredibly hot. 80 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,880 He makes his way through the smoke toward the one emergency door that he 81 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:10,700 that leads out to the back of the hardware store. 82 00:06:11,180 --> 00:06:16,840 As I was working my way down the back aisle toward the exit, it was just the 83 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:18,040 intense heat. It was extreme. 84 00:06:18,460 --> 00:06:23,620 He had to shield his head and body with his arms from the fire as it became so 85 00:06:23,620 --> 00:06:24,620 intense. 86 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,720 And it just seemed like forever to get to those emergency exit doors. 87 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:31,260 So I felt like giving up. 88 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,340 But then here are the doors. 89 00:06:34,540 --> 00:06:37,520 I was like, I'm going to be the last one out of these doors. 90 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:43,560 And when he gets outside and turns around and looks at where he came from, 91 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:44,920 building is engulfed in flames. 92 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,900 I remember seeing smoke coming out of those doors, and it was just black. 93 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,580 I knew that there would be people that perished in the fire. 94 00:06:53,290 --> 00:06:59,290 In less than five minutes, this fire went from a small fire to a fully 95 00:06:59,290 --> 00:07:00,970 12 ,000 -square -foot building. 96 00:07:02,510 --> 00:07:06,850 I had first and second -degree burns on my arm and also on my ear, on my 97 00:07:06,850 --> 00:07:08,310 forehead and face. 98 00:07:11,010 --> 00:07:16,470 Outside the store, the crowd is gathering, and among the spectators is 99 00:07:16,470 --> 00:07:20,170 Deal, and he's asking everybody, have you seen my wife, have you seen my 100 00:07:20,170 --> 00:07:22,230 grandson? Do you know where they might be? 101 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:27,320 And these emotions are playing out in the parking lot of this hardware store 102 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,140 that is absolutely engulfed in this fire. 103 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:39,820 The captain is trying to direct his rookie firefighters into this massive 104 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:45,140 John Orr shows up. He was the fire investigator for the city of Glendale. 105 00:07:45,140 --> 00:07:49,060 fire investigative community all knew John Orr very well, and he was a well 106 00:07:49,060 --> 00:07:50,060 -respected investigator. 107 00:07:50,410 --> 00:07:53,490 And he seemed to have a great deal of knowledge about fire that many other 108 00:07:53,490 --> 00:07:54,490 people didn't have. 109 00:07:54,530 --> 00:07:57,830 And he takes a bunch of pictures of the firefighters and the fire. 110 00:07:58,170 --> 00:08:01,790 It was putting up quite a bit of smoke. I started taking photographs of the 111 00:08:01,790 --> 00:08:02,790 always fire. 112 00:08:03,210 --> 00:08:05,830 Because it's a good tactic to take pictures of the crowd. 113 00:08:06,510 --> 00:08:11,010 If a fire ever turns out to be arson, then it's a good idea to have some crowd 114 00:08:11,010 --> 00:08:12,010 shots. 115 00:08:12,870 --> 00:08:17,130 John was known for telling all these investigators that the bug is always in 116 00:08:17,130 --> 00:08:18,130 crowd. 117 00:08:18,220 --> 00:08:22,000 So you should video it so you can figure out whether somebody's showing up at a 118 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,480 bunch of your fires, and then you'll know that that person is the arsonist. 119 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:31,780 I found in my experience as an arson investigator, their trait of coming back 120 00:08:31,780 --> 00:08:34,440 the scene of the crime is almost universal. 121 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:40,580 It seems that the motivations are to see the damage that's done or being around 122 00:08:40,580 --> 00:08:45,640 the excitement of what's going on and being the only one that knows what 123 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:46,640 actually happened. 124 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,340 I heard that there was nobody else that made it out of the store. 125 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:12,480 The Ole's Home Center fire started at 8 .04 p .m. on the night of October 10, 126 00:09:12,620 --> 00:09:13,620 1984. 127 00:09:14,220 --> 00:09:19,280 First arriving units found that fire was fully involved inside the west side of 128 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:20,280 the Ole store. 129 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:26,180 They saw smoke and fire beginning to come out of all of the open doors and 130 00:09:26,180 --> 00:09:28,560 in the location, and within minutes it was through the roof. 131 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:34,040 People are watching, people who've been evacuated from the store, people who 132 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:35,040 worked in the store. 133 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:37,380 I was very much concerned for my co -workers. 134 00:09:44,750 --> 00:09:46,430 inside will be homicide victims. 135 00:09:49,470 --> 00:09:53,850 We came back the next morning, and by then the L .A. County Sheriff's 136 00:09:53,850 --> 00:09:59,510 had taken over the entire scene, so we were excluded as investigators on that 137 00:09:59,510 --> 00:10:00,510 case. 138 00:10:04,270 --> 00:10:08,330 The investigation of the Ole's Home Center fire was led by... 139 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,780 The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Arson Homicide Division, they couldn't figure 140 00:10:12,780 --> 00:10:15,880 out what happened because they couldn't decide whether or not it was electrical 141 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:20,920 fire. The fire was what we call undetermined, and it really became a 142 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,440 recovery effort fairly early on. 143 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,460 In all, there's four people that died in this Holy Fire. 144 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:37,640 Working in the store was Carolyn Krause. 145 00:10:38,140 --> 00:10:41,760 People remember her leading people out of the store when this fire took place. 146 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,320 She was a very sweet young lady who got along really well. 147 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,380 Jimmy Satina was a high school kid. 148 00:10:51,180 --> 00:10:53,320 And he was like an all -American athlete. 149 00:10:53,980 --> 00:10:57,460 He was being scouted by the Chicago Cubs. He had a bright future. 150 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:01,160 Whenever you saw him, he always had a smile on his face, never in a bad mood. 151 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,160 He led people to safety and ultimately perished. 152 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:08,720 It was very saddening to hear that. 153 00:11:11,940 --> 00:11:16,040 Among the victims were Ada Diehl and Matthew Treidel. 154 00:11:16,580 --> 00:11:22,760 We were called last night and told he was trapped in there. He was dead. 155 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:24,780 That's all we know. 156 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,400 They were found about 20 feet from the door. 157 00:11:28,740 --> 00:11:32,380 My grandbaby, he would have been three in January. 158 00:11:32,860 --> 00:11:34,420 He'd be with his other grandmother. 159 00:11:35,180 --> 00:11:39,700 They were in the store shopping with her husband, his grandfather. 160 00:11:40,580 --> 00:11:42,560 She decided to go back for one more thing. 161 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:47,100 She took the baby with her, and I'm sure she did everything she could for him. 162 00:11:47,780 --> 00:11:51,500 It was the next day that I found out that the lady and her grandchild passed 163 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:52,500 away in the fire. 164 00:11:57,940 --> 00:12:02,540 All of the victims who died in this fire died from smoke inhalation, and that is 165 00:12:02,540 --> 00:12:04,000 typically what happens in a fire. 166 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,660 People very rarely burn to death in fires. 167 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,380 Most of the time it's the smoke that kills them because they're not breathing 168 00:12:10,380 --> 00:12:13,360 enough oxygen. Then the fire envelops them. 169 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:20,480 John Orr knew very well the sister of one of the victims in the fire. 170 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:25,100 And a couple of days after the fire, he specifically told her that he was angry 171 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:27,120 that they had not determined this was an arson fire. 172 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,900 And he tells her, this is an arson fire. 173 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,200 And I'm bound and determined to get to the bottom of why this fire happened and 174 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:37,200 who set it. 175 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:42,280 To investigate a fire scene, you start from a distance and work your way into 176 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:48,980 it, observing the scene itself and what's presented by the scene, 177 00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:53,920 and then moving into the point or the area of origin. 178 00:12:54,580 --> 00:12:57,260 The point of origin is where the fire started. 179 00:12:57,790 --> 00:13:02,050 It was going to tell you the possible cause of the fire. It could be an 180 00:13:02,050 --> 00:13:04,990 accidental fire due to electrical short. 181 00:13:05,330 --> 00:13:07,130 It could be careless smoking. 182 00:13:07,630 --> 00:13:10,250 It can be any number of things. 183 00:13:11,190 --> 00:13:17,090 A good fire investigator can track back to the area where it originated and then 184 00:13:17,090 --> 00:13:20,930 try and ascertain what it was specifically that started the fire, 185 00:13:20,930 --> 00:13:26,370 a shorted wire or a pour of gasoline throughout a room starting. 186 00:13:26,670 --> 00:13:27,850 the entire room on fire. 187 00:13:28,750 --> 00:13:32,310 You have to assume it's going to be accidental from the beginning until you 188 00:13:32,310 --> 00:13:34,810 eliminate all of the accidental causes. 189 00:13:39,570 --> 00:13:44,850 And in fact, John Orr went to the area of origin and expressed his own opinions 190 00:13:44,850 --> 00:13:48,790 as to why this fire was arson and different from what they said. 191 00:13:49,330 --> 00:13:52,550 One of the things that John was really good at was reading a fire. 192 00:13:53,790 --> 00:13:58,410 He knew that arson fires start from the ground up, and electrical fires always 193 00:13:58,410 --> 00:13:59,730 burn from the top down. 194 00:14:00,350 --> 00:14:05,630 The little bit of investigation I was able to do after the fire was knocked 195 00:14:05,630 --> 00:14:11,410 showed the appearance of being a fire starting low in the actual merchandise 196 00:14:11,410 --> 00:14:16,990 area. I had great respect for John. I was impressed with his knowledge. 197 00:14:17,390 --> 00:14:21,790 There would be a number of fire scenes where the investigators might be 198 00:14:21,790 --> 00:14:25,860 struggling. to try to find out where the fire started, and he had a knack of 199 00:14:25,860 --> 00:14:30,900 showing up on scene and being able to relatively quickly identify the point of 200 00:14:30,900 --> 00:14:34,400 origin of the fire where other investigators had been stumped by until 201 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:35,400 arrival. 202 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:40,500 My dad was the hero of solving those fires and figuring out where they 203 00:14:40,500 --> 00:14:44,740 and that they were arson. He was on the news quite often. There's a lot of 204 00:14:44,740 --> 00:14:48,480 witness statements and a lot of possible suspects that were in the area at the 205 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:49,480 time of the fire. 206 00:14:50,410 --> 00:14:54,390 To anybody that worked at a fire investigation at the time, his 207 00:14:54,390 --> 00:14:55,570 almost larger than life. 208 00:14:55,790 --> 00:15:00,050 Or tell them, there's something happening here that you are missing, and 209 00:15:00,050 --> 00:15:01,050 ignore it. 210 00:15:01,310 --> 00:15:05,830 We were taken out of the investigation, and it was taken over by the L .A. 211 00:15:05,910 --> 00:15:06,910 Sheriff's Department. 212 00:15:07,130 --> 00:15:11,670 Their method was basically bring in a D -9 caterpillar, tore down a couple of 213 00:15:11,670 --> 00:15:12,670 walls. 214 00:15:12,850 --> 00:15:17,090 Once they began to drive heavy equipment into the scene, You have now 215 00:15:17,090 --> 00:15:20,910 compromised your scene investigation because you certainly can't figure out 216 00:15:20,910 --> 00:15:25,250 substance was used to start a fire if you're driving heavy equipment inside a 217 00:15:25,250 --> 00:15:27,010 location before you finish your investigation. 218 00:15:28,810 --> 00:15:33,370 If the sheriff would only have listened to what he said, they would have 219 00:15:33,370 --> 00:15:36,170 realized there was something far more sinister going on that night. 220 00:15:55,880 --> 00:16:00,220 The loss of life in a popular retail store made headlines in Southern 221 00:16:00,220 --> 00:16:05,240 California. Four people died in this fire, including a grandmother and her 222 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:06,219 -year -old grandson. 223 00:16:06,220 --> 00:16:09,540 The other two were employees of Ole's Home Center. 224 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:15,260 The investigators, because they didn't determine that it was an arson fire, 225 00:16:15,380 --> 00:16:17,060 didn't conduct any further investigations. 226 00:16:18,060 --> 00:16:23,420 If they had done so, they may have realized that two fires... on that very 227 00:16:23,420 --> 00:16:26,480 night, may have been connected to the Ole's home center fire. 228 00:16:28,460 --> 00:16:34,000 The first one was about 15 minutes away from the Ole South Pasadena location. 229 00:16:34,700 --> 00:16:36,820 John Orr was sent to investigate it. 230 00:16:37,820 --> 00:16:43,520 I was paged to assist the Pasadena investigator at a supermarket fire. 231 00:16:43,740 --> 00:16:46,500 It was a fairly small fire in a potato chip rack. 232 00:16:48,110 --> 00:16:52,650 It seemed more of a juvenile type thing, a fun fire, or maybe a diversion. 233 00:16:52,970 --> 00:16:57,750 Set the fire and then go over and steal liquor or expensive meats or gourmet 234 00:16:57,750 --> 00:17:03,370 foods while the entire focus of the staff was to put the fire out. I just 235 00:17:03,370 --> 00:17:08,890 on some basic information and then agreed to cruise around just to see what 236 00:17:08,890 --> 00:17:11,069 going on in case something broke out. 237 00:17:11,530 --> 00:17:16,790 The third fire that night was in another grocery store, also in the potato chip 238 00:17:16,790 --> 00:17:17,790 rack. 239 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:23,599 So I went down, drove a half mile, and investigated the potato chip fire at 240 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:27,540 location, and then came back up and joined our group at the Ole's fire 241 00:17:28,820 --> 00:17:32,940 John Orr participated in all three of those investigations during that night. 242 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:38,060 Investigators quickly determined the two potato chip fires were arson fires. 243 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:43,440 But because the fires were in grocery stores, investigators thought there was 244 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,540 way they could be linked to the giant blaze that happened at Ole. 245 00:17:47,770 --> 00:17:51,850 very quickly dismissed any thought that there was some linkage between these 246 00:17:51,850 --> 00:17:52,850 three fires. 247 00:17:58,770 --> 00:18:03,010 If anybody had connected these three fires, they would have realized that 248 00:18:03,010 --> 00:18:07,210 was something far more serious happening that night and that there was an 249 00:18:07,210 --> 00:18:11,410 arsonist on the loose and he wasn't going to be satisfied until his arson 250 00:18:11,410 --> 00:18:14,930 some real damage and he got some credit for it. 251 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:20,480 The only report that reflects that connection is a report that John Orr 252 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,520 He said that was the same person that started all these fires. 253 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,060 If you look at the pattern among pyromaniacs, they often do it in a spree 254 00:18:29,060 --> 00:18:33,820 fashion, sometimes several fires in one day. Because it's so stimulating for 255 00:18:33,820 --> 00:18:37,780 them, there's an inner drive to do it. They want to recapture that feeling 256 00:18:37,780 --> 00:18:38,780 again. 257 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:43,560 By setting fires in a spree -like fashion, the arsonist can also cause the 258 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:44,560 greatest amount of damage. 259 00:18:52,650 --> 00:18:57,230 There was a fire set in another Always Home Center store in the city of 260 00:18:57,230 --> 00:19:00,890 Pasadena. That fire didn't really ignite. 261 00:19:01,270 --> 00:19:05,030 And investigators go out, and they look at it, and they even find the device. 262 00:19:06,250 --> 00:19:11,750 It was a device put in their polyurethane foam that someone 263 00:19:11,750 --> 00:19:12,750 was still smoking. 264 00:19:13,290 --> 00:19:18,750 And that device was a cigarette that had three matches attached to it by a 265 00:19:18,750 --> 00:19:22,310 rubber band, and it was placed inside a piece of folded... 266 00:19:22,540 --> 00:19:24,300 the yellow -lined notepad paper. 267 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,720 And the concept of that device would be once the cigarette was ignited, you 268 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,080 would have a time frame before it would burn down enough to light the matches, 269 00:19:32,180 --> 00:19:35,380 and the matches would in turn light the yellow -lined paper. 270 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,540 And you'd need that amount of flame before you'd be successful in igniting 271 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:48,920 To John, it was clear that the same arsonist who set the fire at Ole's 272 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:55,350 in South Pasadena and killed... four people, was telling investigators that, 273 00:19:55,390 --> 00:19:56,570 hey, you missed me. 274 00:19:56,930 --> 00:20:00,390 I'm going to do it again so that you see it's an arson. 275 00:20:02,370 --> 00:20:06,530 Orr was very, very good at fire detection. Why? 276 00:20:06,730 --> 00:20:07,730 That was his life. 277 00:20:07,890 --> 00:20:11,550 It was part of him. It was all -consuming for him. 278 00:20:12,770 --> 00:20:15,670 Of course, his words fell on deaf ears. 279 00:20:17,790 --> 00:20:22,470 In the two years that followed, there would be more than 6 ,500 fires in 280 00:20:22,470 --> 00:20:27,290 Southern California, causing more than $20 million in damage. And nobody can 281 00:20:27,290 --> 00:20:32,170 exactly how many of these fires were accidental or are. 282 00:20:35,190 --> 00:20:40,770 I was working at the Bakersfield Fire Department as a fire investigator, and 283 00:20:40,770 --> 00:20:45,850 had a call come in. It was a craft mart store out in the southwest part of 284 00:20:45,850 --> 00:20:46,850 Bakersfield. 285 00:20:47,150 --> 00:20:51,910 I traveled out there, and my cruiser was met at the front door by an engine 286 00:20:51,910 --> 00:20:57,150 company captain that took me back to a dry floral arrangement where the fire 287 00:20:57,150 --> 00:21:02,170 started. When I looked over in the vent, I saw what I knew to be an incendiary 288 00:21:02,170 --> 00:21:08,530 device. It was three matches laying close to a cigarette butt that had been 289 00:21:08,530 --> 00:21:14,270 severely burned and some rubber band -looking material. 290 00:21:14,890 --> 00:21:19,690 Yellow line paper was laying in close proximity to it. I carefully picked it 291 00:21:19,690 --> 00:21:22,950 with a pair of tweezers and put it into an evidence bag. 292 00:21:24,230 --> 00:21:29,770 I had the manager bring me all of the yellow line paper that he had in the 293 00:21:29,770 --> 00:21:34,130 store, and I compared it with the yellow line paper that I had obtained from the 294 00:21:34,130 --> 00:21:36,750 bin, and none of it compared. 295 00:21:37,130 --> 00:21:41,410 So that made me believe that the paper had to come from the outside. 296 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:46,240 I was quite surprised whenever I found that someone had intentionally done this 297 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:47,580 due to the time of day. 298 00:21:47,940 --> 00:21:52,980 The store was busy, had employees in there, had customers in there. I felt 299 00:21:52,980 --> 00:21:54,780 this was someone that was very bold. 300 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,680 This person knew that he could walk in there and do it without being detected. 301 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:05,960 I had the opportunity to interview the manager and other employees at the craft 302 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,220 mart store to see if they'd seen anybody suspicious or anything. 303 00:22:10,110 --> 00:22:13,570 They hadn't really seen anybody or paid any attention to anyone that was in the 304 00:22:13,570 --> 00:22:14,570 store. 305 00:22:14,610 --> 00:22:19,830 I was still conducting my interviews when I received another call of a fire, 306 00:22:19,830 --> 00:22:25,490 I thought, wow, this is a little unusual. I'm having two large department 307 00:22:25,490 --> 00:22:28,830 with fires in them. What could possibly be going on here? 308 00:22:29,730 --> 00:22:33,690 That's the second fire. There was one lady that was working that had seen a 309 00:22:33,690 --> 00:22:37,470 come in. He was a real handsome cowboy, and she was watching him as he walked 310 00:22:37,470 --> 00:22:41,270 around in the store. And he had something in his hands, and apparently 311 00:22:41,270 --> 00:22:42,770 taken her eye off him for a while. 312 00:22:43,650 --> 00:22:47,210 Shortly after the cowboy left the store, a fire broke out. 313 00:22:52,970 --> 00:22:56,170 I got a call from the two investigators that had been to the... 314 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,480 California Conference of Arson Investigators up in Fresno. 315 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:06,260 The firefighters, they talk about their work hunting arsonists or how they are 316 00:23:06,260 --> 00:23:08,340 investigating different crimes. 317 00:23:08,980 --> 00:23:14,060 On the last days of the conference, there's a series of fires that take 318 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:19,520 All located along Highway 99, Fresno being the first one, and that's where 319 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,700 conference was, and they had Tulare, and then we had Bakersfield, and then they 320 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:24,700 seemed to stop. 321 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,700 So now I'm thinking this could very well be the person that attended the 322 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:29,700 conference. 323 00:23:29,820 --> 00:23:33,080 Just a gut instinct I had, the fireman was setting these fires. There's a 324 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,440 fireman that attended that conference in Fresno who's lighting fires on his way 325 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,440 home to Bakersfield or Los Angeles. 326 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,840 One of the fire investigators that was there, he called me and says, hey, I'm 327 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,680 going to tell you something that's going to knock your socks off. 328 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,700 Welcome back to Very Scary People. 329 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,240 After a series of mysterious fires break out near an arson investigator's 330 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,760 convention, investigator Marvin Casey has a hunch. He thinks someone in the 331 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,260 firefighting community who attended the conference set the fires. 332 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:19,240 He has one critical piece of evidence, a scrap of yellow -lined notepaper that 333 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,780 was part of the incendiary device. 334 00:24:21,260 --> 00:24:24,780 He thinks this could be key to identifying the fire starter. 335 00:24:26,820 --> 00:24:28,980 Marvin Casey sends it out to a lab. 336 00:24:29,390 --> 00:24:33,690 They dust it, and they find out that, hey, there's a fingerprint on this piece 337 00:24:33,690 --> 00:24:34,690 of paper. 338 00:24:34,730 --> 00:24:39,010 Well, this is great. I mean, they've got a fingerprint that they can link to a 339 00:24:39,010 --> 00:24:41,910 device that started an arson fire in Bakersfield. 340 00:24:43,430 --> 00:24:47,430 They ran their print through the National Crime Index. It's an index that 341 00:24:47,430 --> 00:24:51,690 put everybody's fingerprints in. Everybody that's ever done anything 342 00:24:51,690 --> 00:24:56,010 nationwide. The guy didn't have a criminal record. There was no hit on him 343 00:24:56,010 --> 00:24:57,010 make a match. 344 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:06,720 Marvin Casey was disappointed, but he didn't give up. I obtained a roster from 345 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:11,180 the conference in Fresno, which was attended by 250 fire investigators, 346 00:25:11,660 --> 00:25:13,800 insurance agents, and people like that. 347 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:20,840 I got my California map, and I traced it down and put indicators showing where 348 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:25,080 the fires had started. They had to be traveling alone because arson is really 349 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,080 secretive crime. 350 00:25:27,070 --> 00:25:33,570 I narrowed it down to 55 individuals that was traveling down Highway 99 351 00:25:33,570 --> 00:25:37,610 from the convention to the Southern California area. 352 00:25:38,590 --> 00:25:43,690 What Marvin does is he offers the ATF the names of 55 firefighters and a 353 00:25:43,690 --> 00:25:47,310 fingerprint and says, if you put this all together, you're probably going to 354 00:25:47,310 --> 00:25:48,430 find a serial arsonist. 355 00:25:49,430 --> 00:25:54,170 And they looked at the roster and said 55 men. I really don't think we can work 356 00:25:54,170 --> 00:25:54,909 that many. 357 00:25:54,910 --> 00:25:57,810 I was disappointed, but I still couldn't get it out of my head. 358 00:25:59,230 --> 00:26:04,390 I continued to work the theory, and finally, the fire marshal that I was 359 00:26:04,390 --> 00:26:07,490 for said, you know, put this on the back burner, you know, you beat this horse 360 00:26:07,490 --> 00:26:08,490 to death. 361 00:26:08,710 --> 00:26:14,050 For the next two years, fires continued to pop up all over California, but none 362 00:26:14,050 --> 00:26:16,910 were connected to the 1987 fire spree. 363 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,460 It turns out there's a conference taking place in Pacific Grove where a group of 364 00:26:26,460 --> 00:26:31,040 firefighters get together. It's just off the coast of San Francisco area. All 365 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,520 fire investigators get together and they're discussing the fires in 366 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,080 and how we were going to approach it in the future. 367 00:26:39,900 --> 00:26:44,400 One of the fire investigators that was there, he called me and said, hey, I'm 368 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,240 going to tell you something that's going to knock your socks off. 369 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:51,260 There was other fires that had occurred during that convention, like someone had 370 00:26:51,260 --> 00:26:55,360 just left the convention, was going back to Southern California, traveling down 371 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:58,440 101, and setting the fire in a different town. 372 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,300 This is very eerily similar to what happened just two years earlier. 373 00:27:02,580 --> 00:27:06,520 This, to me, seemed like it was the same M .O. that had happened in 87. 374 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,800 These fires were during business hours when people were in the store shopping. 375 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,200 After I'd received information that there had been fire going down Highway 376 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:24,220 I pulled my map back out that I had used in 87 that I had identified as a person 377 00:27:24,220 --> 00:27:27,560 traveling down 99. I knew that it had to be someone from Southern California 378 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,840 because that's the way the map was indicating. 379 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:34,920 So he asked organizers for a list of names, who attended this conference. 380 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:40,120 And he gets that list and compares it to the one that he had two years earlier. 381 00:27:41,610 --> 00:27:46,250 Then I put the two together and compared them, and I came up then with ten 382 00:27:46,250 --> 00:27:48,690 names, ten people that attended both conferences. 383 00:27:49,430 --> 00:27:54,450 And on these ten names is the name of a firefighter who's probably responsible 384 00:27:54,450 --> 00:27:56,990 for some of these fairly significant arson. 385 00:28:02,230 --> 00:28:07,570 Then I recontacted ATF, and I said, listen, I've got it down to ten names. 386 00:28:07,570 --> 00:28:10,030 we work with ten names? They said, yes, I believe we can. 387 00:28:10,410 --> 00:28:14,910 So I sent the 10 names up to them, and they were to compare the fingerprint. 388 00:28:15,250 --> 00:28:19,570 They run the names in the fingerprint, and there's no match to any of these 389 00:28:19,570 --> 00:28:21,010 firefighters in that fingerprint. 390 00:28:22,010 --> 00:28:25,770 I was starting to think, you know, well, maybe this will never be solved. 391 00:28:26,010 --> 00:28:28,930 I'd taken a lot of gut from all these guys. They just didn't want to believe 392 00:28:28,930 --> 00:28:30,730 that it was one of our own that was setting fires. 393 00:28:31,010 --> 00:28:34,670 I was probably the only one that suspected it, that believed it. 394 00:28:36,310 --> 00:28:39,470 June 1990 was an unusual fire season. 395 00:28:39,790 --> 00:28:45,330 The fires had begun in spots all over California, and it stretched the 396 00:28:45,330 --> 00:28:47,630 of local fire departments pretty thin. 397 00:28:48,150 --> 00:28:50,030 We had Santa Ana winds blowing. 398 00:28:50,230 --> 00:28:54,970 High winds blowing out of the hills are what moves most of our fires in 399 00:28:54,970 --> 00:28:55,970 California. 400 00:28:56,050 --> 00:29:01,810 You have dry, tender, hot conditions, and then winds that can sometimes get up 401 00:29:01,810 --> 00:29:07,250 into the 50s. It's a perfect playground for an arsenal because you add a match, 402 00:29:07,350 --> 00:29:08,670 and now you've got havoc. 403 00:29:14,410 --> 00:29:20,950 On June 27, I went to my doctor's, and when I was coming back, right on the 404 00:29:20,950 --> 00:29:25,590 hillside, the weeds, they were so dry. 405 00:29:25,950 --> 00:29:32,370 It gave me a creepy feeling. I don't know why that feeling came to me. I 406 00:29:32,370 --> 00:29:37,610 if somebody put a match to that weed, it would just burn. 407 00:29:40,090 --> 00:29:43,730 We live in a two -story family home. 408 00:29:44,060 --> 00:29:50,740 College Hills is a residential area of Glendale, nestled in a foothill 409 00:29:50,740 --> 00:29:52,360 region of the San Gabriel Mountains. 410 00:30:13,310 --> 00:30:20,110 I saw a very thick smoke, and I realized the fire is in our 411 00:30:20,110 --> 00:30:21,990 street, right below us. 412 00:30:22,450 --> 00:30:28,170 At about 3 o 'clock, 3 .30 in the afternoon, there was a report of a fire 413 00:30:28,170 --> 00:30:32,030 area that had experienced a few fires before, right off of a busy thoroughfare 414 00:30:32,030 --> 00:30:33,330 in the middle of town. 415 00:30:33,690 --> 00:30:38,210 And by the time I arrived at the scene, the fire had ripped up a hill, included 416 00:30:38,210 --> 00:30:40,990 about five acres, involved two or three homes. 417 00:30:41,930 --> 00:30:45,330 That fire advanced up that hill pretty darn quick. 418 00:30:46,070 --> 00:30:49,550 And it escalated because the Santa Ana winds were blowing. 419 00:30:50,210 --> 00:30:54,630 There's a house burning and another house burning, and there's smoke in the 420 00:30:54,670 --> 00:30:55,890 and you can feel the flames. 421 00:30:57,050 --> 00:30:59,890 The fire was so intense and the winds were so strong. 422 00:31:00,230 --> 00:31:03,990 It jumped an eight -lane freeway. 423 00:31:05,590 --> 00:31:07,670 Everybody start evacuating now. 424 00:31:08,730 --> 00:31:09,750 My husband. 425 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:17,220 He came to our street. He was blocked. And right in front of his eyes, 426 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,860 a house exploded onto people. 427 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:27,940 And fortunately, at that time, he saw a woman, an officer, and asked, go to 428 00:31:27,940 --> 00:31:32,540 my house and tell my wife, just get out, get out of the house. 429 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,640 Right now, when I'm thinking back, it makes me very emotional. 430 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:46,280 After these women told us just get out, get out of the house, I pulled the car 431 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:52,020 from the garage. I drove down the street. I remember smoke. It was thick 432 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:58,500 And the whole street was covered with crisscross fire hoses. 433 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:06,820 We went to the shopping center and we just watched the fires on 434 00:32:06,820 --> 00:32:09,000 the hills and seeing. 435 00:32:09,610 --> 00:32:13,990 The houses that they were exploding like firecrackers. 436 00:32:14,610 --> 00:32:16,110 It was just surreal. 437 00:32:22,790 --> 00:32:27,410 At around 7 .30, 8 o 'clock, they put the fire out. 438 00:32:27,670 --> 00:32:32,570 The fire destroyed or damaged approximately 67 homes in this College 439 00:32:32,570 --> 00:32:37,210 community. It was very emotional that I saw that our house was saved. 440 00:32:38,670 --> 00:32:41,450 It was the largest fire in the city of Glendale's history. 441 00:32:41,850 --> 00:32:44,850 To this day, I can't believe that no one died in the College Hills fire. 442 00:32:45,730 --> 00:32:48,610 It amazes me that all those people were able to get out of there. 443 00:32:49,250 --> 00:32:50,290 It was a miracle. 444 00:32:54,790 --> 00:32:58,290 But the circumstances surrounding this fire seem suspicious. 445 00:32:58,850 --> 00:33:03,730 John Orr is the Glendale fire captain, and in this case, this fire, the College 446 00:33:03,730 --> 00:33:05,490 Hills fire, is now happening in his city. 447 00:33:08,290 --> 00:33:12,330 John's adamant that this fire is arson. He walks out into the middle of the 448 00:33:12,330 --> 00:33:14,670 field and picks up a lighter. 449 00:33:16,090 --> 00:33:20,350 He tells the other investigators that, well, here, we found the cause of this 450 00:33:20,350 --> 00:33:23,170 fire, and it happened right here. It's this lighter. 451 00:33:24,130 --> 00:33:29,110 He was uncanny about his ability to find these incendiary devices. 452 00:33:29,990 --> 00:33:31,390 We have some very good leads. 453 00:33:31,730 --> 00:33:33,770 John had great relationships with reporters. 454 00:33:34,490 --> 00:33:39,770 And he recognized that the local media would be a pretty good way to advance 455 00:33:39,770 --> 00:33:43,050 investigation. By saying, listen, this is an arson fire. 456 00:33:43,310 --> 00:33:47,330 We're looking for a serial arsonist. Some of the evidence matches up with 457 00:33:47,330 --> 00:33:48,770 individual and ties him into the fires. 458 00:33:49,110 --> 00:33:50,790 We don't have an identity on him. 459 00:33:54,130 --> 00:33:59,250 There was all kinds of witnesses to the College Hills fire. In one case... A 460 00:33:59,250 --> 00:34:03,610 woman describes having a man come to her door and say, hey, did you know there's 461 00:34:03,610 --> 00:34:04,610 a fire in your backyard? 462 00:34:04,950 --> 00:34:08,830 And, of course, this is before she can smell anything or see anything. 463 00:34:09,150 --> 00:34:14,130 And, again, within seconds, he's gone, and suddenly the fire's going. 464 00:34:14,710 --> 00:34:19,330 One of the witnesses sees a white Chevy Blazer right at the point of origin. 465 00:34:21,949 --> 00:34:25,330 In the investigation of this fire, John was put in charge of a tip line. 466 00:34:25,570 --> 00:34:26,570 And so... 467 00:34:26,830 --> 00:34:31,070 As the active investigator, all the tips on this fire, anybody that saw anything 468 00:34:31,070 --> 00:34:36,130 that had to do with it had to call this tip line, and John vetted all the tips. 469 00:34:38,750 --> 00:34:43,850 In late 1990 and going into 91, there's an epidemic of fires that are happening 470 00:34:43,850 --> 00:34:45,810 in retail stores all over L .A. 471 00:34:46,050 --> 00:34:52,350 In each of these fires, there's a device that's very similar, and that device 472 00:34:52,350 --> 00:34:56,010 was a relatively simple design but very effective, a cigarette. 473 00:34:56,510 --> 00:35:01,090 It had three matches attached to it by a rubber band, and it was placed inside a 474 00:35:01,090 --> 00:35:03,790 piece of folded yellow -lined notepad paper. 475 00:35:05,770 --> 00:35:12,350 On March 27th of 1991, I learned that the L .A. Sheriff's Arson Unit had 476 00:35:12,350 --> 00:35:18,190 responded to a large commercial fire in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. Later 477 00:35:18,190 --> 00:35:22,190 that same day, I got a briefing from the investigators that responded to the 478 00:35:22,190 --> 00:35:27,080 scene, and by that time, they learned that... It wasn't just one fire. 479 00:35:28,380 --> 00:35:33,180 There had actually been three fires in the same area, and in each one of those 480 00:35:33,180 --> 00:35:36,520 fires, it started in pillows or foam products. 481 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,660 Clearly, the conclusion was that we had a serial offender who had started those 482 00:35:42,660 --> 00:35:48,660 fires, and we decided that it would be prudent to form a task force, and our 483 00:35:48,660 --> 00:35:53,380 goal was to start visiting all of the local smaller jurisdictions in the 484 00:35:53,380 --> 00:35:54,480 Los Angeles area. 485 00:35:54,990 --> 00:35:59,010 and see if they had had any fires that met that same MO. 486 00:36:00,970 --> 00:36:07,530 Within days, we were able to identify close to 30 fires in Los Angeles over a 487 00:36:07,530 --> 00:36:09,410 four -month period from December through March. 488 00:36:12,010 --> 00:36:16,110 The device is obviously a signature, but the MO goes beyond that. 489 00:36:16,490 --> 00:36:22,390 We noticed that the fires were fairly close to freeway on and off ramp. 490 00:36:22,810 --> 00:36:28,030 access, which would allow the perpetrator easy ingress from the fire 491 00:36:28,030 --> 00:36:33,630 fires were all set in either hardware stores or fashion -type stores, stores 492 00:36:33,630 --> 00:36:37,930 that would have polyurethane foam in them. And that is really the connection 493 00:36:37,930 --> 00:36:40,970 between these fabric stores and hardware stores. 494 00:36:41,550 --> 00:36:44,770 The fact that these fires were being started in the middle of the day in 495 00:36:44,770 --> 00:36:48,630 businesses where there's customers was obvious to us that there's a large 496 00:36:48,630 --> 00:36:52,410 of loss of life if we didn't solve this case soon. 497 00:36:54,030 --> 00:36:58,810 Now that the task force is established, the lead investigators need to meet with 498 00:36:58,810 --> 00:37:00,850 arson investigators in Los Angeles. 499 00:37:01,190 --> 00:37:05,510 The treasurer of the association, John Orr, was well known to myself and others 500 00:37:05,510 --> 00:37:08,610 as the arson investigator for the city of Glendale. 501 00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:13,760 and we hoped that maybe he had some information to share. 502 00:37:15,020 --> 00:37:19,900 After the meeting ended, our investigator got approached in a parking 503 00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:24,180 California State Fire Marshal, and he says, I have to talk to you. I didn't 504 00:37:24,180 --> 00:37:25,400 to say anything in the open meeting. 505 00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:30,060 We think a fireman might be responsible, and we should be careful about what we 506 00:37:30,060 --> 00:37:31,460 say in front of this group. 507 00:37:32,060 --> 00:37:37,400 He said we had the exact same scenario in 1987 in Fresno. 508 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:43,180 This is Tulare and Bakersfield, and they had in fact recovered a yellow line 509 00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:46,820 paper, cigarette, and match device from one of those fires. 510 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,460 Seems to be an exact match with the device you recovered. 511 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,680 You need to talk to Marv Casey, the arson investigator for the city of 512 00:37:54,680 --> 00:38:00,080 Bakersfield. I get a call from the Los Angeles guys, and they want to come up 513 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,180 and take a look at the yellow line paper that had the fingerprint. 514 00:38:03,930 --> 00:38:08,850 It was run against every fingerprint stored for any possible reason in the 515 00:38:08,850 --> 00:38:14,530 system. So it was not only people that were arrested for crimes, but also 516 00:38:14,530 --> 00:38:17,670 that had their fingerprints taken for any purpose, whether it be a law 517 00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:20,070 enforcement officer or a fire service. 518 00:38:20,370 --> 00:38:25,110 About three days after a phone call came in from the sheriff's lab, he says, you 519 00:38:25,110 --> 00:38:26,670 got John Orr's fingerprints on it. 520 00:38:28,850 --> 00:38:32,830 First thing they did was call me and tell me, you know, You tell John Orr to 521 00:38:32,830 --> 00:38:35,990 quit touching that evidence. I said, he was nowhere around when I investigated 522 00:38:35,990 --> 00:38:37,130 that fire. What are you talking about? 523 00:38:37,990 --> 00:38:41,830 It made no sense that his prints should be on a device from Bakersfield. 524 00:38:42,610 --> 00:38:45,750 I knew John personally. I've worked cases with him, worked on investigations 525 00:38:45,750 --> 00:38:46,750 with him. 526 00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:51,850 I've taken arson scene investigation training with him. He's trusted as one 527 00:38:51,850 --> 00:38:52,850 us. 528 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:58,300 I thought it could be somebody just messing with the fire guys that were up 529 00:38:58,300 --> 00:39:02,880 there for the conference. They're trying to tantalize or to torture or torment 530 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,500 the fire investigators, say, catch me if you can. 531 00:39:06,180 --> 00:39:11,100 How could it be one of our own? The arsonist would remain on the loose, and 532 00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:12,480 had no intention of stopping. 533 00:39:13,020 --> 00:39:17,960 In the meantime, suspicious fires continued to pop up all over southern 534 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:18,960 central California. 535 00:39:19,330 --> 00:39:23,470 Eventually, the fire is going to grow enough that someone's not going to be 536 00:39:23,470 --> 00:39:24,049 to escape. 537 00:39:24,050 --> 00:39:26,190 We could not allow that to happen. 538 00:39:28,750 --> 00:39:32,750 Will investigators be able to catch the elusive arsonist before he strikes 539 00:39:32,750 --> 00:39:36,550 again? Could the person starting these fires really be one of their own? 540 00:39:36,810 --> 00:39:37,910 An arson expert? 541 00:39:38,170 --> 00:39:40,950 A firefighter? Someone sworn to save lives? 542 00:39:41,350 --> 00:39:44,990 The shocking conclusion in part two of The Fire Starter. 543 00:39:45,310 --> 00:39:46,410 I'm Donnie Wahlberg. 544 00:39:46,630 --> 00:39:47,630 Thanks for watching. 545 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,160 Good night. 546 00:39:49,210 --> 00:39:53,760 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 53145

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