John Leonard Orr

Paul Kenneth Keller

1992- 93: ________, a serial arsonist from Washington, brought 76 fires in and around Seattle during a six- month period.

John Leonard Orr

On December 4, 1991, ________ was taken into custody and charged with five charges of arson.

1979 80

________: Bruce Lee, born in the name of Peter Dinsdale, committed 11 acts of arson in and around his place of Hull, Yorkshire, UK.

California

________ is a magnet for firestarters due to its dry environment and vast natural areas.

Pillow Pyro Task Force

The "________, "named for the perpetrator's method of operation, was created in response to a string of fires that began in Los Angeles in late 1990.

Bakersfield

A spate of unexplained fires occurred in ________ in January 1987, a city located north of Pasadena.

John Leonard Orr

________, one of the ten people on Marvin Casey's list, had a partial print that matched his left ring finger.

Teletrac showed Orr leaving the fire site at 3

30 in the morning to get the dispatcher's report as the set of the well-known television program The Waltons went up in flames on the afternoon of November 22, 1991, in Burbank

1979-80

Bruce Lee, born in the name of Peter Dinsdale, committed 11 acts of arson in and around his place of Hull, Yorkshire, UK

1985-2005

Thomas Sweatt, a well-known American arsonist started almost 400 fires, with the bulk of them in the vicinity of Washington, D.C

1992-93

Paul Kenneth Keller, a serial arsonist from Washington, brought 76 fires in and around Seattle during a six-month period

John Leonard Orr

California is a magnet for firestarters due to its dry environment and vast natural areas. But none of them have achieved the magnitude of flaming destruction \______ inflicted on lives and property.

October 10th, 1984

One event left 65 dwellings in a state of smoldering ash. But it wasn't until \____________ that the flames claimed the lives of people.

Ole's Home Center

An emergency alert was broadcast over the public address system at \_____ in South Pasadena at seven o'clock.

Marvin Casey

The Bakersfield Fire Department's Captain \____, a seasoned arson investigator, was certain that the fire had been deliberately started in a stack of combustible pillows.

explosive device

A spate of unexplained fires occurred in Bakersfield in January 1987, a city located north of Pasadena. In a bag of dried flowers at a craft store, Marvin Casey found an \________.

Bakersfield Hancock Fabric

Later on the same day, a second fire broke out in a container at the \__________ shop that included pillows and foam rubber.

pillows

Casey discovered that every fire had started in a pile of \________, with the exception of the craft business in Bakersfield.

modus operandi (MO)

Casey noticed that the fire assaults had gone sequentially from Los Angeles north along Highway 99 to Fresno, thus this \__________ did not escape him.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF)

He persisted however, eventually persuading the \___________ to do an experiment on the yellow paper retrieved from the craft shop.

ninhydrin

On the off chance that it might react to amino acids from fingerprint residue, the ATF lab put \______(a substance designed to detect ammonia) to the paper.

Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS)

The fingerprint was put into the \_________, where it was matched to the fingerprints of offenders from all throughout the nation.

Pacific Grove

In March 1989, a string of fires started up once again, this time along Highway 101, which went straight to \____, the location of the annual arson investigators' conference.

Pillow Pyro Task Force

The "\______," named for the perpetrator's method of operation, was created in response to a string of fires that began in Los Angeles in late 1990.

Fire Investigators Reaction Strike Team (FIRST)

A brochure regarding this MO was sent to the \________________, a group of fire departments without an arson investigator on staff, by the task force's leader, Tom Campuzano, in March 1991.

Teletrac

\______ showed Orr leaving the fire site at 3:30 in the morning to get the dispatcher's report as the set of the well-known television program The Waltons went up in flames on the afternoon of November 22, 1991, in Burbank.

Pasadena hillside home

More incriminating perhaps was a film that Orr had taken of a \_________ on March 14, 1990, followed by video of the same house on fire on October 2, 1992.

Points of Origin

Importantly, Orr had written the manuscript for the book \__________, whose protagonist, Aaron Stiles (whose name is an anagram of "I Set LA Arson"), lead a double life as an arson investigator and firestarter.

Aaron Stiles

Importantly, Orr had written the manuscript for the book Points of Origin, whose protagonist, \____________ (whose name is an anagram of "I Set LA Arson"), lead a double life as an arson investigator and firestarter.

Pillow Pyro

Along with using the same explosive as the "\____," Stiles also ignited fires while traveling to arson conferences and destroyed a hardware shop, killing a little kid called Matthew.

Matthew

Along with using the same explosive as the "Pillow Pyro," Stiles also ignited fires while traveling to arson conferences and destroyed a hardware shop, killing a little kid called \_______.

December 4, 1991

On \___, John Leonard Orr was taken into custody and charged with five charges of arson.

June 25, 1998

However, his ultimate day of judgment came on \____, when the California State Court found him guilty of four charges of first-degree murder connected to the Ole inferno of 1984 and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of release.

psychopathy

Because it was accompanied by other particularly psychopathic features, such as manipulativeness, narcissism, and lack of remorse, Orr's personal appeal was eventually linked to \____.

Michael J. Cabral

As a result of this suspicion, Deputy District Attorney \______ calculated that Orr was one of the most prolific arsonists in US history, having started more than 2,000 fires over a 30-year span.

pyromaniac

Someone who is so obsessed with fire that they cause it on purpose.

pyrophile

A person who is sexually attracted by flames, the smell of smoke, the great heat, and (sometimes) the whirr of sirens hurrying to put out the inferno

paraphilic disease

Aaron Stiles, the main character and Orr himself, was shown to have this deadly \____ in several passages in Orr's primarily autobiographical Points of Origin.

Fire Lover

In his book \____, Joseph Wambaugh, who spent 20 years as a detective sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department before becoming a well-known novelist, detailed Orr's life.

1979–80

Bruce Lee, born in the name of Peter Dinsdale, committed 11 acts of arson in and around his place of Hull, Yorkshire, UK.

1985–2005

Thomas Sweatt, a well-known American arsonist started almost 400 fires, with the bulk of them in the vicinity of Washington, D.C.

1992–93

Paul Kenneth Keller, a serial arsonist from Washington, brought 76 fires in and around Seattle during a six-month period.

Peter Dinsdale

Bruce Lee, born in the name of \______, committed 11 acts of arson in and around his place of Hull, Yorkshire, UK.

Thomas Sweatt

a well-known American arsonist started almost 400 fires, with the bulk of them in the vicinity of Washington, D.C.

Paul Kenneth Keller

a serial arsonist from Washington, brought 76 fires in and around Seattle during a six-month period.