All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 10 2007 // A call to the Texas Arson Hotline resulted in the arrest of three Sul Ross State University students following a fire in an Alpine, Texas, convenience store, according to A Texas Advisory Council on Arson (ATAC), which...
Apr 2 2007 // A fire at a bed-and-breakfast that had been in financial disarray has been blamed on a former events coordinator at the inn.James Oliver Burrows, 59, of Fall City, Wash., is charged with first-degree arson and filing a...
Mar 28 2007 // A Texas Advisory Council on Arson (ATAC) reported it has honored two fire investigators for their work in education and law enforcement. The awards were presented March 22 at the 52nd Annual Texas Fire & Arson...
Mar 27 2007 // A Texas Advisory Council on Arson (ATAC) has elected new officers for 2007.David Mitchell, property claims supervisor for the Republic Groups, has been elected president. Stacy Singleton, director of emergency operations...
Mar 15 2007 // A phone call to the Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office Arson Hotline helped fire investigators identify a young man and woman who were believed involved with a fire set inside a University of Texas at Austin...
Mar 9 2007 // Attorney General Paul Morrison announced fraud charges Wednesday against five people accused of fraudulently trying to obtain grant or insurance money for a fire that destroyed a large portion of historic downtown Fort...
Mar 2 2007 // Tennessee authorities filed arson charges this week against four volunteer firefighters in connection with two house fires in Bell Buckle.Bedford County Sheriff Randall Boyce said all suspects have confessed to parts of...
Feb 19 2007 // A former employee of Covington Country Club in Covington, La., who burned down its temporary clubhouse has been sentenced to just under six years in federal prison.In addition to the 70-month term, William A. Tarpein, 28,...
Feb 8 2007 // An Atlantic County man previously convicted of insurance fraud has been named in a new state grand jury indictment charging him with arson, according to New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner and Criminal Justice...
Feb 2 2007 // A Quitman, La., woman has been arrested, accused of setting her mother’s house on fire in order to collect insurance money.Investigators with the state Fire Marshal’s Office on Jan. 30 arrested Pamela Dukes,...
Jan 15 2007 // Former Sagnaw Mayor Wilmer Jones Ham was recently charged with arson and insurance fraud in the burning of her 1986 Mercedes-Benz.Ham, 56, is the mother of ex-Detroit Pistons player Darvin Ham, who was part of the 2004 NBA...
Jan 8 2007 // The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned church camp cabin in East Stroudsburg, Pa., while her father survived. Most of the lessons taught to budding fire investigators stood out at the scene. The...
Jan 8 2007 // A handful of arson convictions that relied largely on expert testimony are being re-examined because of changes in the scientific understanding of fire. Some cases are in court, while in others defense teams are making...
Jan 8 2007 // Studies have chipped away at old fire science for years but many prosecutions are still based on discredited methodsThe clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned cabin at a church camp in East Stroudsburg,...
Jan 8 2007 // A handful of arson convictions that relied largely on expert testimony are being re-examined because of changes in the scientific understanding of fire. Some are already in court, while in others, defense teams are putting...
Jan 7 2007 // The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned cabin at a church camp in East Stroudsburg, Pa., while her father survived.Most of the lessons taught to budding fire investigators stood out at the scene. The...
Jan 7 2007 // The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned church camp cabin in East Stroudsburg, Pa., while her father survived. Most of the lessons taught to budding fire investigators stood out at the scene. The...
Dec 25 2006 // A handful of arson convictions that relied largely on expert testimony are being re-examined because of changes in the scientific understanding of fire. Some are already in court, while in others, defense teams are putting...
Dec 25 2006 // Studies have chipped away at old fire science for years but many prosecutions are still based on discredited methodsThe clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned cabin at a church camp in East Stroudsburg,...
Dec 25 2006 // A handful of arson convictions that relied largely on expert testimony are being re-examined because of changes in the scientific understanding of fire. Some are already in court, while in others, defense teams are putting...