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The Dry Helmet That Reopened an Eighteen-Year Arson Mystery

The Dry Helmet That Reopened an Eighteen-Year Arson Mystery

A single dry yellow fire helmet sitting on a rain-soaked foundation reopened an eighteen-year-old arson case and pulled a town back into a night that had been ruled accidental. Why would a helmet, photographed by a longtime runner and logged as the same missing helmet from the original file, resurface at 418 Depot after nearly two decades - and who finally decided to tell the truth?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from the runner Nicole Rafferty finding the helmet to the records clerk Patrice Wynn flagging it…

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