Word: arsonist
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...inland side of the Santa Monica Mountains. Huge brushfires scorch this region regularly, but the five that swept through Agoura and Malibu that day and the next was a holocaust that defied previous measures. Fed by chapparal and whipped by high winds, a small fire lit by a teenage arsonist kindled into a firestorm whose heat set grasses and animals' fur ablaze a hundred yards before the flames. At 2:27 p.m.--precisely two hours and 16 minutes after the first alarm--the fire had crossed the mountains, jumped two highways and a firebreak, and burned the 10 miles...
According to Chris Hatcher, a psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, the personality of the arsonist or bomber, rather than the mass murderer, may be the most appropriate model for understanding the Tylenol murderer. "Other killers," he says, "have a certain satisfaction in stalking their victims. But this is a much more technically oriented crime; the killer does not perceive as clearly the actual death of his victims." Who gets killed appears to be a matter of indifference. Even gunmen like Charles Whitman, who killed 16 people from his perch in a Texas tower in 1966, have more...
...March 8, 1978, an arsonist set fire to San Diego's Old Globe Theater, and within minutes the interior was completely gutted. Though no one could see it at the time, this act of pure malice was also a kind of favor: it roused the spirits of all those in San Diego who love a play, prompting them to build a new, far better theater. When the new Old Globe opened last month, they could see just how well their $6.5 million had been spent. Both the theater and the company please the eye and delight the mind...
...Arson Watch Reward Program, announced yesterday by a state insurance industry association, will offer rewards of up to $1000 to Massachusetts residents for information leading to the arrest or indictment of an arsonist or the deterrence of arson...
...never know what moved an arsonist to set the pressbox at Soldiers Field on fire one day last spring. Maybe he didn't like what journalists were saying about the Harvard football team. Maybe he was just nuts...