Word: arson
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...focus to racketeering under the direction of Fay Clayton, a Chicago lawyer with RICO experience. The defendant list was amended to include Terry as well as Scheidler, and the alleged rackets grew to include forcible "invasion" of clinics, burglary (a theft from a dumpster of fetal material) and arson...
...California public officials, was only the most spectacular of dozens of leads traded after the fires' first week by 30 law-enforcement representatives at the Los Angeles office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ( ATF). Ablott's team from the Los Angeles County sheriff's arson detail was there, as were police from other afflicted counties. So were FBI agents, whose Washington labs have the capacity to analyze the letter for everything from handwriting style to the DNA of the saliva used to seal the envelope...
Despite all the investigative talent, however, the mood was glum. Arson is a crime that erases its own evidence; a hundred leads may not make an arrest. Moreover, even if Fedbuster were caught and actually admitted to having set some of the fires, he could not have set them...
...phone messages from the anonymous "We-Tip" hotline of the sheriff's department and was interested in interviewing a 22-year-old man arrested in Laguna Beach in possession of a police scanner, phony fire department IDs and a fire fighter's uniform. Meanwhile, three members of the Arson Profiler Program are quietly pulling 18-hour days at the ATF offices in L.A.'s World Trade Center. Founded in 1986, the program has dispatched staff members around the country to conduct Silence of the Lambs-style interviews with jailed arsonists in the hope of understanding motives and patterns. The profilers...
CALIFORNIA: Arson at Malibu...