Word: arsonist
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...sprinkler in every room, closet and corridor. Just as important, owners of some existing buildings have voluntarily modernized their fire-safety systems. The venerable seven-story Copley Plaza was built in 1912, but its owners are spending $460,000 to install smoke alarms in every room after an arsonist's blaze in 1979 killed two people...
Chappaquiddick and his personal problems may have done in Teddy Kennedy. But I believe that the American people also perceive him as the king of the big spenders who have brought this country to the very brink of economic collapse. The aspirations of an arsonist to be fire chief strike many as ludicrous...
Taam's is a Godfather story with some new wrinkles: he was born in San Francisco where, during the 1960s, he owned a Marxist bookstore. The conservative Triad sends an arsonist who destroys the shop and also incinerates Taam's wife. Taam then kills the Triad torch and flees to Red China, where he becomes a respected party member. After seven years, his return to the U.S. is negotiated as part of a deal to sell a Reno casino to the Triad. They are not to be trusted...
...August, Berkowitz explained that he received orders to kill via a black Labrador retriever. The messages actually came, he explained, from a 6,000-year-old demon reincarnated as Berkowitz's next-door neighbor, Sam Carr. He even may have been, in addition to his killings, a mass arsonist. Introduced in evidence at the hearing were the murderer's diaries listing 1,400 fires, most set in The Bronx between 1974 and his capture in 1977. While it was not established that he actually set them, Berkowitz told his lawyers that he did, and that the number...
...insurance industry has begun to train its own arson investigators. With the aid of the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, insurance companies and city officials plan to create arson information banks to help apprehend torches. Unfortunately, catching arsonists requires enterprising detective work-and luck. The U.S. Attorney for western Pennsylvania, Blair Griffith, for example, has won 20 arson convictions based on the federal crime of mail fraud. Griffith relied on an arsonist turned informant: Merrill H. Klein, 53, a self-styled "business consultant" who worked as a "broker" for landlords eager to torch their property. After pleading guilty...