All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Dec 25 2006 // The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned cabin at a church camp in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, while her father survived.Most of the lessons taught to budding fire investigators stood out at the...
Dec 24 2006 // The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned cabin at a church camp in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, while her father survived.Most of the lessons taught to budding fire investigators stood out at the...
Dec 24 2006 // 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...
Dec 24 2006 // 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...
Dec 12 2006 // A call into the Texas Arson Hotline resulted in four juveniles being cited for criminal mischief in Marfa, the Texas Advisory Council on Arson reported. The four allegedly participated in setting a bag of trash on fire on...
Dec 11 2006 // The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned cabin at a church camp in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, while her father survived.Most of the lessons taught to budding fire investigators stood out at the...
Dec 11 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...
Nov 29 2006 // A fire that destroyed the sanctuary of a 100-year-old church in Statesboro, Georgia was ruled an arson, Insurance and Fire Commissioner John Oxendine said. Authorities have arrested a suspect after the fire engulfed the...
Nov 22 2006 // A Frederick County, Maryland sheriff’s deputy has been indicted on a charge of second-degree arson for allegedly burning his girlfriend’s sport-utility vehicle in what investigators have said was an insurance...
Nov 17 2006 // A Trumbull man has been convicted of setting fire to his home just before Christmas four years ago to collect insurance money.Randal Licari, 50, was convicted of arson, larceny and insurance fraud and faces up to 70 years...
Oct 24 2006 // A Vermont man already facing arson charges in two apartment house fires now is being sued by the city of Rutland’s insurance company, which says the blazes damaged a fire truck.Robert Vandriel has pleaded innocent to...
Oct 16 2006 // A mistrial has been declared in South Carolina in the case of a former pastor accused of trying to burn down his own Summerville church.A Dorchester County jury deliberated Harold E. Hunter’s fate for nearly 10 hours...
Oct 13 2006 // A pastor accused of burning down his own church went on trial this week in South Carolina and could face 25 years in prison if convicted.Harold E. Hunter, 58, is charged in the burning of the Bethel AME Church in...
Oct 5 2006 // Grady County prosecutors have filed a second-degree murder charge against a Chickasha, Okla., woman who allegedly set fire to the apartment of a blind man for whom she was caring.Andrea D. Sledge was formally charged on...
Oct 4 2006 // Owners of some of the 18 horses killed in a St. Clair County barn fire are finding out that they did not have enough insurance to replace all of what they lost.Farm owner Beverly McCollum owned nine of the horses killed in...
Sep 10 2006 // Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John W. Oxendine said arrest warrants have been issued for four volunteer firefighters and three junior firefighters in Rabun County for allegedly setting a fire in...
Aug 29 2006 // An anonymous phone call to the state’s Arson Hotline resulted in the arrests of two men in Brady, Texas. The Texas Advisory Council on Arson (ATAC) reported that the suspects were charged with burglary with intent to...
Aug 24 2006 // A witness who spotted a group of suspicious people near Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium provided police with key information that led to the arrests of four juveniles following a fire at the...