sometimes i think about that one Los Angeles fire captain that turned out to be an incredibly prolific serial arsonist with one of the things that ended up giving him away being that he wrote a novel about a firefighter that becomes an arsonist and used the pen-name âAaron Stilesâ which turns out to be an anagram for âI set LA arsonâÂ
hey yeah no this guy is actually a Big Deal in California at least in my town he set fires across central and southern california for over a DECADE before being caught. The FBI estimates he set over two thousand fires before being caught. After his arrest, wildfires in the surrounding area dropped ninety percent
#Oh yeah this guy i remember the Forensic Files episode on him#that tidbit about the decline in fires being so drastic actually shocked me in a way so fucking visceral#I may be mixing things up but i think the thing with him is he couldnt advance in his career the way he wanted??#also his incendiary devices were not only delayed so he could arrive and be a hero#but also he went to like.... Arson Investigation Panels for like. Police Detective Conventions#its how he knew how to evade being found so long. And then he wrote a fucking book and detailed the fires in ways only the arsonist would#and made his pen name... That.
