any year-long investigation our
Washington DC bureau discovered Detroit
had one of the worst suspicious fire
rates and the entire country some people
just want to watch the will bin welcome
to watchmojo.com facts in today’s
installment we’re counting down the top
5 facts about arson before we begin we
publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content from insurance fraud to acts of
compulsion or even murder this act of
deliberate destruction is an essential
part of any screenwriters bag of tricks
but how much does the average person
know about it beyond what they’ve seen
on TV come along as we sift through the
ashes of this incendiary topic number 5
Detroit the arson capital of America
arson in Detroit it’s more than a
problem it’s an epidemic
Detroit homeowners paid twice as much in
homeowners insurance compared to the
average city in America and they have
their staggeringly high incidents of
arson to blame for whatever reason
Detroit’s history has always been bright
with arson from the flame crazy riots of
1967 to the devil’s night tradition of
setting fires across the city but the
housing crash in 2008 followed by the
2013 bankruptcy of the city has resulted
in an epidemic in 2015 the city had over
3,800 suspicious fires insurance fraud
is one case but with so many abandoned
and unstable buildings falling into
dilapidation people have simply begun to
bend them down either out of boredom or
because they were just bored of looking
at them now before arson is sometimes a
force for good people the burn stopped
believing God too high
in 1834 fire marshals arrived on the
scene of a reported fire at the mansion
of a well-known New Orleans socialite
Madame Delphine la Jolie a in the
process of putting out the fire one of
her slaves was found chained to the
stove in the kitchen the woman admitted
to having intentionally started the fire
in an attempt to take her own life
rather than be subjected to the grisly
fate that awaited her at the hands of a
master
she told the authorities about La Soul
EA’s torture chamber in which they then
found numerous mutilated slaves while
the practice of slavery itself was legal
at the time the wicked lady’s acts of
torture were not and she was chased out
of the town by an angry mob
all right arson number three
firefighters can use dogs to solve arson
cases most people have heard about k9
units being employed at airports to
sniff out drugs or find bombs but did
you know the arson investigators
actually use k9 agents known as arson
dogs to investigate suspicious fires hot
perturbed dog arson investigators have a
specialized education in fire scene
investigation a distinct branch of
forensic science
similarly these helpful dogs are
expertly trained to identify arson
specific sense such as butane kerosene
gasoline and other known accelerants
commonly used by arsonists as well as
identify evident fuses an act of arson
found near the scene of the crime most
impressively they can even track or pick
out an arsonist from a crowded area
using their keen sense of smell but
that’s how much a revered member of our
arson task force Reilly has become
number two Son of Sam aka the 44 caliber
killer was also an arsonist most people
have heard of this notorious New York
City serial killer who in the mid-1970s
captivated the media terrified the
citizens and mocked the police hunting
him on the long list of things that the
police failed to figure out about David
Berkowitz before his capture was the
fact that he was a pyromaniac while the
Son of Sam was careful and methodical
with his killings his arsonist
tendencies were somewhat less under
control he drew attention to himself
with a bizarre incident involving fire
and bullets on his neighbor’s front
porch following his arrest his journals
were recovered
in which he detailed literally hundreds
of fires he had said by his own
estimation he set over fourteen hundred
fires compared to only six murders you
finally got me now that I got you who is
it that I got you know number one Help
Wanted arsonist for hire Jamestown
police call it an arson for hire scheme
and it has two men locked up this
morning when it comes to crime there’s
usually someone you can hire to do the
deed an arson is no different in perhaps
the most significantly documented case
22 individuals including a former fire
department arson squad captain and a
retired police arson detective were
arrested in the Boston area for their
involvement in an arson for hire ring
while it may be shocking that fire
investigators would tend to arson for
profit there is a history of people who
work closely with fire developing
pyromaniac tendencies or turning to
arson themselves one of the most famous
arsonists John Leonardo was a fire
captain an arson investigator at the
height of his own arson spree often
investigating crime scenes of fire he
himself had started so which of these
facts did you find the most interesting
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
Washington DC bureau discovered Detroit
had one of the worst suspicious fire
rates and the entire country some people
just want to watch the will bin welcome
to watchmojo.com facts in today’s
installment we’re counting down the top
5 facts about arson before we begin we
publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content from insurance fraud to acts of
compulsion or even murder this act of
deliberate destruction is an essential
part of any screenwriters bag of tricks
but how much does the average person
know about it beyond what they’ve seen
on TV come along as we sift through the
ashes of this incendiary topic number 5
Detroit the arson capital of America
arson in Detroit it’s more than a
problem it’s an epidemic
Detroit homeowners paid twice as much in
homeowners insurance compared to the
average city in America and they have
their staggeringly high incidents of
arson to blame for whatever reason
Detroit’s history has always been bright
with arson from the flame crazy riots of
1967 to the devil’s night tradition of
setting fires across the city but the
housing crash in 2008 followed by the
2013 bankruptcy of the city has resulted
in an epidemic in 2015 the city had over
3,800 suspicious fires insurance fraud
is one case but with so many abandoned
and unstable buildings falling into
dilapidation people have simply begun to
bend them down either out of boredom or
because they were just bored of looking
at them now before arson is sometimes a
force for good people the burn stopped
believing God too high
in 1834 fire marshals arrived on the
scene of a reported fire at the mansion
of a well-known New Orleans socialite
Madame Delphine la Jolie a in the
process of putting out the fire one of
her slaves was found chained to the
stove in the kitchen the woman admitted
to having intentionally started the fire
in an attempt to take her own life
rather than be subjected to the grisly
fate that awaited her at the hands of a
master
she told the authorities about La Soul
EA’s torture chamber in which they then
found numerous mutilated slaves while
the practice of slavery itself was legal
at the time the wicked lady’s acts of
torture were not and she was chased out
of the town by an angry mob
all right arson number three
firefighters can use dogs to solve arson
cases most people have heard about k9
units being employed at airports to
sniff out drugs or find bombs but did
you know the arson investigators
actually use k9 agents known as arson
dogs to investigate suspicious fires hot
perturbed dog arson investigators have a
specialized education in fire scene
investigation a distinct branch of
forensic science
similarly these helpful dogs are
expertly trained to identify arson
specific sense such as butane kerosene
gasoline and other known accelerants
commonly used by arsonists as well as
identify evident fuses an act of arson
found near the scene of the crime most
impressively they can even track or pick
out an arsonist from a crowded area
using their keen sense of smell but
that’s how much a revered member of our
arson task force Reilly has become
number two Son of Sam aka the 44 caliber
killer was also an arsonist most people
have heard of this notorious New York
City serial killer who in the mid-1970s
captivated the media terrified the
citizens and mocked the police hunting
him on the long list of things that the
police failed to figure out about David
Berkowitz before his capture was the
fact that he was a pyromaniac while the
Son of Sam was careful and methodical
with his killings his arsonist
tendencies were somewhat less under
control he drew attention to himself
with a bizarre incident involving fire
and bullets on his neighbor’s front
porch following his arrest his journals
were recovered
in which he detailed literally hundreds
of fires he had said by his own
estimation he set over fourteen hundred
fires compared to only six murders you
finally got me now that I got you who is
it that I got you know number one Help
Wanted arsonist for hire Jamestown
police call it an arson for hire scheme
and it has two men locked up this
morning when it comes to crime there’s
usually someone you can hire to do the
deed an arson is no different in perhaps
the most significantly documented case
22 individuals including a former fire
department arson squad captain and a
retired police arson detective were
arrested in the Boston area for their
involvement in an arson for hire ring
while it may be shocking that fire
investigators would tend to arson for
profit there is a history of people who
work closely with fire developing
pyromaniac tendencies or turning to
arson themselves one of the most famous
arsonists John Leonardo was a fire
captain an arson investigator at the
height of his own arson spree often
investigating crime scenes of fire he
himself had started so which of these
facts did you find the most interesting
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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