The Piggy Bank That Exposed an Arsonist - Innocence on Fire
The Piggy Bank That Exposed an Arsonist - Innocence on Fire
A pale pink ceramic piggy bank, smelling of accelerant, sat undamaged on a concrete pad inside a cleared crime scene six days after a house burned to its foundation - how did it get there and what did its survival mean? That single intact object eventually helped undo a wrongful conviction and point to an arsonist; but who placed it, and why did it outlast the fire?
In this episode, we tell the story of the July 2014 fire at 414 Orchard Trace Road, the evidence found and the investigation that followed, and how one small object…
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