A Firefighter Burns Down His Own Town: The Emily Sullivan Case
A Firefighter Burns Down His Own Town: The Emily Sullivan Case
A small town's routine was shattered by smoke and a pair of wire-framed glasses left on the top step - the only intact thing after a blaze that killed a 44-year-old county assessor. For fourteen years the case stopped at a single conclusion despite a gas receipt, a clean electrical permit, and a witness who saw a dark pickup; how did those three discrepancies go unanswered for so long?
In this episode, we tell what the record shows about the night of November 14-15, 2003, the scene investigators documented, and the three items…
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