Ohio State Campus Fire of 2003 | Forensic Files

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cast season 2 comes out oh yeah yeah the old Cobra Guai I've not seen season one
I've heard very good things though I I enjoyed it a lot it's definitely not true crime or maybe it is because
they're teaching like teenagers to fight maybe there's some crime element there defend
themselves well it depends on what team you're on right this week we have an unfortunate
anniversary it is uh the it's our 50 show well now we're remembering the five students that were killed in an arson
fire near the Ohio State University campus this took place on April 13th 2003 and it was big news here at the
time because it was a unfortunate tragic event that was of course ruled in arson
just within days of the Blaze and this was a fire that took place at well I mean you could you could argue you here
or there whether it was campus or not campus technically they want to the papers say off- campus housing which I
mean you could you could toss a football from the campus to where this house was
located and this was a house that they were hosting a birthday party for that evening and it was a multi- kager that
Spilled Out into the yard this was a warm night back in 2003 what street was that on this was was the house okay was
located at 64 East 17th Avenue and it was technically rented to 12 college students at the time is that
nuts it's a a house is rented to 12 students yeah nuts yeah this is one of those cases when when I looked into it
it really helps to they did post like a diagram of the the actual home in the newspapers back then and that really
helped to kind of visualize the unfortunate events that took place that night they estimate that there was like
80 approximately 80 people that were in and out through the course of that evening this was a birthday party 21st
birthday party for one of The house's residents and what took place Captain was around 4: in the morning there was
an anonymous 911 call that came in the caller was a woman we still don't know to this day who it was but she she said
that she was passing by the house when she saw half of the house lit up in Flames the firefighters rushed to the
house and they found what they later categorized as a fast-moving intense Blaze amounting to a three alarm fire
right which was one of the larger ones in recent memory apparently this fire spread very quickly throughout the house
some of the kids were still awake when the six smoke detectors I want to make sure we point out here their smoke
detectors were working right in the house so some of the kids were awake and some were sleeping when the smoke
detectors went off several of them were able to escape three people John Chambers Lindsay shenberg and Tom
seagull were in the basement and they were able to get out on their own but as the fire department is arriving they
figure out they're going to have to start pulling some of these people out and this is a difficult situation too
because as we said this house is big enough for 12 students to live there so you're showing up to this this campus
house yeah you don't know how many people were in there they don't know that there was a party that night well
again these houses are strange so even to have 12 people living there you know or or is there 15 or is there or is
there five I mean it's really hard to tell from the outside of the building but back to the person that called
there's no suspicion that she was involved this is just a somebody walking by well you know
that's that's interesting that you point that out because I think there should be some suspicion I don't know that if
police were able to identify this woman right as far as the news reports go there's no mention of her of her name at
any time so when I say an anonymous caller it may just be anonymous to us because there were some individuals that
say that they saw a person of interest maybe in the area at that time and we'll get into that here in a minute but uh in
in the end we have this multi- floor multilevel house where we there's technically bedrooms in the on the
basement level ground level and on the second floor and from my understanding Captain it was a lot of the people that
were on the second floor that did not make it out right of that house unfortunately and the the firefighters
the First Responders that that showed up and responded to the blaze they said that on the second floor so there was a
fire escape that you could access from the second floor and that's how the firefighters went into the second floor
but by the time they got there now mind you I think it was like the response time was like 3 minutes 4 minutes it was
not long at all the problem though is like the caller said when she calls in she's calling in a house that is halfway
on fire right so we got half the house already burned up and by the time the firefighters get to this house they get
to the second floor they're crawling on their hands and knees trying to navigate
through and around flames and and there's smoke up above them it's just a smoke filled second floor the the seal
of the second floor is burning bright red according to these firefighters well some people never even wake up and if
there's a party or any of these individuals drunk and just didn't hear the alarms and didn't wake up and then
they normally die from uh inhaling all the smoke right and that and that's exactly how that was the cause of death
for all five of the individuals it was smoke inhalation or uh carbon monoxide poisoning and the thing though they were
able to determine through toxicology that all five of the victims they were drinking that night but none of them
they never considered those levels of intoxication to be that high that they wouldn't have woke up during this
situation my guess is we have some living you know some some some of the people that were technically victims
because they were in the home but they made it out right be it dragged out by firefighters or if they got out on their
own there was at least one of these victims that I think she described the houses you know she's like I was in a
room that I very likely could have died in very you know very shortly afterwards
but she's like I woke up and and the room just felt hot to me like not hot to the point where she thought there was a
fire or anything right so I think with the layout of the house that kind of adds to
the trouble here with this but well and also if you you know I lived on campus technically I lived there I wasn't I
wasn't a resident there but I basically stayed up there for at least two years of my life mhm and a lot of these houses
would have bedrooms that they they blocked off into two rooms instead of one they take
a addict and turn that into a bedroom so a lot of those types of room rooms or houses it was you know you go to the
bathroom upstairs and you get lost yeah so is it possible that some of these victims just weren't able to find their
way out and also there obviously there's more confusion cuz there's smoke and there's fire but I mean you have two two
females that are 19 one that's 20 and then two males that are 21 I remember like what it felt like
or or imagine I can remember what it feels like to be 21 but you know when you look at these
victims it's very sad because when you see their picture 21 looks very young now MH maybe
that's just me getting really old but they look I mean they look like babies well and as you said the layout of the
house could be confusing especially in a panic situation and three of the victims did not live
there Christine Wilson Andrea Dennis and Aaron DeMarco were not residents of that
home they were actually students at at OU at Ohio University that drove up just to attend the party the party and so two
of the victims I believe were residents I know Alan schles sesman sorry was one of the victims he was not only somebody
that lived there but it was his birthday party that was the purpose of the celebration that day yeah and his his
good friend Kyle Roland um did live in the house as well so this as said was determined to be a arson and why why is
that cuz it varies in each case but well so the the thing here is that's one part that I think is kind
of difficult about this case is regarding the the bit of it being arson it was ruled in arson but one
thing I couldn't find is there was there's like there's different information put
out there from different sources some of them say that an accelerant was used and
others do not say that mhm and the reason why I say that uh that that there's it's tricky to state that it's
arson is years later some of the deciding factors that would determine an arson has they have
become almost like junk science where I don't think it's a definitive answer every single time the the problem with
this case is was there an accelerant used if there was then it has to be an arson right right but the the belief
is or at least what they released to the papers the they were able to determine that the
fire started on The house's front porch now you know I know that a lot of those houses up there have couches on the
front porch yeah and so well they used to not So Much Anymore yeah but but this is 2003 this is
probably I was up there probably 2000 2001 kind of started dwindling hanging out down there about 2002 so this but
around that time there was I mean it was like notorious to have a a couch on your
front porch mhm the weird thing too when looking back at this there was a surprising number of arson in the
area around that time period as well now well there was a lot of arson from you know 2000 2001 2002 there's a lot of
little mini riots after football games and and were lighting it became a very common thing
to light a dumpster on fire right and I think a lot of times when you have people moving out like let's say uh
winter break or whatever there's some people that are actually dropping out of school so they throw away a crummy
mattress or whatever and sometimes I wondered is somebody start in a fire or is is it a situation where you have
Furniture that's in a dumpster you have maybe some leftover alcohol and somebody's flicking a cigarette or
something and it it's eventually causing a fire well yeah yeah I mean not arson in the sense of somebody trying to cause
bodally harm or burn someone's property down right a lot of this is just straight up can be can be you know
chocked up to goofing around yeah you know drunk college kids things on fire do you know if there was a actual couch
on their front porch um I believe there was and that is believed to be the start of the fire of
of where it all came from and I 17th that's around the that's 17 East East 17th so this is kind of around the
area that they also have some uh sororities for ities that's not too far off the reason why I bring this up is I
lived on Indiana Avenue or stayed on Indiana Avenue and for we end up putting up um some Christmas lights I think they
were purple you went up there several times to party with us mhm and we end up putting up purple
lights like on the porch and the the reason why I bring up the story is 2 o'clock in the morning 3
o'clock in the morning something like that I just hear some banging and some noises
going on front porch but now I'd probably like look through the peephole or look through the
window but it was so common that somebody could just be messing with your property that you just open the door so
I opened up the door and it was this rugby guys from the rugby team that lived I don't know seven houses down
from us and they were taking our lights and mashing them on the front porch oh nice and then I nice I was like what are
you doing and the guy's like we're smashing your lights what are you going to do about it you know mhm and I was
like nothing I don't like the purple lights enjoy just uh clean up the mess when you're done right you know and then
I went back to bed and then of course in the morning I woke up and they didn't clean up the mess they smashed all the
lights point being is this is at 4:00 in the morning this is bars are closing about two people are
walking home people are dropping people off you have a lot of drunk individuals is this a situation where somebody's
just trying to be a jerk and it's not um purposeful as far as you're not trying to hurt somebody but oh let's
light light this off on somebody's porch right I I just think in this situation especially with it being on campus it
just is likely like that that would happen well that means an interesting thing for the investigation in my
opinion because now you have a situation where you have five deaths five homicides to deal with and you have a
situation where you have a party that was going on at that residence that night about 80 or so people in and out
through the course of the evening so from an investigator standpoint you have a lot of people to interview a lot of
people to figure out does did anyone in this group have a a grudge against these
uh anybody that lived there surprising to me that there's nobody you know on the front porch
smoking a cigarette or something at 400 a.m. because parties didn't quit you know like we didn't shut shut up shop at
at 2:00 mhm so it's surprising to me that there wasn't somebody left over from the party from the original 80 some
people that were at the party that was still up and drinking a beer on the front porch yeah we have no one to say
that they saw the fire get started or that they witnessed the fire start it's the only accounts that we have coming
from outside of the house would be the anonymous caller who who notified 911 and then later are a couple people that
say that they saw an individual in the area that was wearing like a a Snoop Dog style
jacket a Snoop Dog style jacket yeah it was it was described as a denim jacket with a Snoop Dog logo on it yeah cuz
that you know that's always really gangster when you wear a a jacket with some other
dude's name on it that makes never understood that well I mean Snoop Dogg obviously sold these and
people people obviously bought him at least this guy um but but I just think it's hilarious I'm I'm tough man I got
Snoop Dog's name on my jacket so the what they do is this Snoop Dog jacket seems to be like their main
lead when it comes to trying to figure out who could have possibly set this fire but again what's his motive I mean
is just just s you know lights a fire to light a fire well that that's the that's a the big
question here that's the $644,000 question what was the motive for this whole tragic event yeah and that's why I
said it's interesting from an investigator standpoint you have 80 partygoers there that night was it
somebody that attended the party that set the fire was it somebody that lived across the street was it somebody
driving in from out of town you know it it could have been any number of people we still don't know this is I mean this
is Cold Case today and the reason why we're talking about it here today is that this pops up in our local news
every time this year because we're we're what less than a week away from the anniversary so every year they they call
for information for people to come out and and and if they saw anything or if they know anything because the thing is
with something like this you have to wonder a couple things if somebody set this fire for
for Revenge purposes and maybe their intent wasn't to kill anybody maybe it was just as simply to do some property
damage right or it was a prank or whatever or was a prank or it was a total accident I think that the thought is in
this type of situation that this is something that somebody would have spoke about at some point I mean we're talking
16 years later and I really feel like and I think investigators feel like the only way
that they're going to ever solve this thing is if they get someone to come forward and someone to say Hey you know
I know something that you don't know here's this individual that told me that they they started this fire for any
number of reasons be it an accident or revenge or a prank or any number of reasons I know this person that is
struggling to live with what they've done and told me this in confidence and now I'm passing it along to law
enforcement that's what makes me feel like this is more of an accident and and that the person that caused the accident
probably doesn't even know that they caused it mhm and the reason being is that this is a long time to live with
something that would be haunting you like that and so I think if that's the case the person would never come forward
because they don't even know that they're responsible for you it could be so many things right I mean again I mean
can you go over the evidence of a little bit again just as as far as why they think it's an arson and not
just an accident well I don't have any specific evidence to point to that all I have is the the statements that were
given we have uh fire Captain Rick Saltzman who says we know it was an arson this was not an accidental fire so
basically what these articles are saying what these news articles and news reports are saying is that according to
the fire investigators who combed through the house thoroughly they were able to
determine according to their statement they were able to rule out any accidental causes for fire you know they
they would have been checking things like electrical lines leading to and from the house gas lines right things of
that nature so according to their statements they were able to rule out any any caused by accident that this
would have this house would have burnt down now so I guess by process of elimination
maybe that's what they're left with was is arson the problem though for us on the outside looking in on this thing is
they may know more than that you know they may know exactly what caused this fire and because they don't have a whole
lot to go off of that might be the thing that they have to hold hold on to to arrest the appropriate person well like
I said it makes it a lot more difficult because also there's a lot of houses that look
similar up there is this a situation where somebody was trying to cause harm to somebody but they got the wrong house
they got the wrong Street you know again was it did they mean uh for it to be a prank
mhm you know did these did the person that did this even know the individuals and I think that's what makes it way
more difficult but it's one of those cases where it's hard to even speculate because you don't even know what what
the firefighters know right and and again it's one of those things where I wish that they would come out and
definitively say if they know that there was an accelerant used I want to point out a a couple things though of Interest
here so I know when they were looking through the home and looking at the home because it took them a few days to come
to the conclusion of arson I believe it was three days maybe four days after that they announced that it was in their
opinion an arson and not an accidental fire but they were looking at typical things that you would expect to see at a
campus house charcoal grill kerosene tiki torches you know any you mentioned lights and things like that so you could
have decorations anything up there like that and then on top of that charcoal grill I mean you could also
have a situation where somebody for whatever reason decided they wanted to light this fire and they use stuff that
they found at the home or on the front porch itself as the accelerant now I couldn't find any local
newspaper articles that were saying 100% that an accelerant was used and what that accelerant was however this was
featured on America's Most Wanted I think it was a few months maybe six months after the
fire and they did say on America's Most Wanted that an accelerant was used now I
don't know if that was you know some kind of creative license that they took there and decided to include that and it
and it's truthful or if they just added that to the story did you ever go to any
of our uh Christmas parties U I don't think so so what would do is what we what we realized was since
we since we were in college but were all in college where our families were from
right so Mo some of our friends would go back home but what we realized was normally uh Christmas Eve you'd have
some stuff with your family and then Christmas day you would normally go eat with your family hang out with your
family whatever but Christmas night got nothing to do mhm most of the time people were done by four or five
o'clock so we decided to start having a Christmas party and it was a Christmas barbecue but I'm sure you went to one of
the parties where we hung out uh in the back and not the front yeah yeah but we we always had a fire pick going so a lot
of these campus houses you got a grill and you got some sort of fire pit so I just
wonder was this stuff on their front porch um but I don't I don't know I again I I wish we
had more information from the firefighters because it kind of gives you nowhere to go other than there was a
suspicious guy wearing a Snoop Dog jacket well so the thing is their two leads were one there was some kind of
disagreement at the party that night okay so this would have been around like 3:00 in the morning there was like a
shouting match between two of the men and this included one member that lived at the house and the other man was a
guest and I guess somebody was messing with the refrigerator on a dare I don't know if they were trying to lift it up
or move it or something like that but somebody that lived there is like hey man leave the refrigerator alone and
there were some people some party go goers that pointed to police and said hey this could be what you're looking
for that maybe there was some kind of fight and somebody later returned to the house and set the couch on fire maybe
their intent was to burn down the house maybe their intent was just to light something on fire on the front porch
right as a as a you know but what police would ultimately say about that situation is that while it was an
interesting lead for them after talking to everybody that witnessed this altercation they were
like this was not really a fight this was not this was you know a couple guys like shouting at each other to call a
fight is an injustice to fights everywhere you yeah I understand that but then it becomes difficult because
let's say this guy's drinking and he's trying to lift up the refrigerator and they're like hey put it down and he's
like ah you know me I'm a little crazy you know and and then like people kind of talk a little [ __ ] and then you go n
I'm going to light their couch on fire just to show them mhm as a joke and I think that's a very good possibility
that somebody did it not to harm not to kill anybody but to basically go ah I got you
guys and all the evidence would you know show that somebody did it on purpose but
then when you're being questioned if you're at the party you're being questioned with the idea that we
have five people dead right you see what I mean so it's it it changes the scenario real quick
and could somebody that didn't mean anything by it other than to like startle them or prank them
and have them come running out and you know put the you know dump water on the couch or
whatever could somebody live with this and not say anything I think it's possible well yeah I mean anything's I
mean of course that's possible that's your deepest darkest secret if you're that person right but I but that's
that's all police have to go off of now is saying that they believe that their only chance of solving this is likely
someone coming forward and saying I know something you don't know but this doesn't make any sense either somebody
told me this this doesn't make any sense either there's a there's let's say it's
not a fight right it's just kind of a don't do that right mhm don't do that anymore at 3:00 in the
morning and then the fire happens at 4: mhm so to me the there's people up and who was
up still at the house who was still partying mhm there had to be somebody and again that could be information that
the firefighters know and we don't so I don't know it's it's tough too and sometimes with these cases it's
really frustrating to me cuz you go well you can you know every anniversary you can say hey we want some information can
you guys give us some information well you're probably not going to get it cuz there is no new new information that
you're giving and if if You released a couple things well we know a b c and d that that might spark conversation
with somebody that was at the party these people have thought about this probably every day of their
life uh even the ones you know even people that were just at the party mhm and and weren't there when the fire
happened but maybe you know left at midnight probably think about this often so I think that gets difficult because
you have to start releasing information I think if you want to have any chances of getting any new information
back it's not just going to be like well let's put it in the papers every year and hope somebody uh decides to change
their mind it's it's heat sometimes you know and no pun intended but it's like sometimes you have to put the heat on
individuals by releasing information you start releasing that information people get nervous M and
when people get nervous they normally start talking well I mean they did arrest somebody they arrested a um
20-year-old man his name was Robert lucky Patterson and they arrested him and what's a little unclear is one of the
the big tips that they got regarding this case was from a I believe it might have been from a campus police officer
you know the old campus Patrol right and I don't think that well what I should say is until this
until this goes to trial we will never know for certain but we don't know if the tips that were coming in named the
individual specifically or if it was just a description of the individual but what we do know that was was made public
was that uh the tips were about a white man about 5'1 200 lb with Shaggy blonde hair and a dark jacket and then again
some of the newspaper articles reference that Snoop Dog jean jacket with the letters SDC printed on it
now what they did was they were going around and they were showing people pictures of either a similar jacket or
believ to be the same jacket as well as their description they have of this this
man that this person of interest and eventually they catch up with this Robert lucky Patterson who's 20 years
old he was local to the area but did not attend OSU he had worked at a one of the pizza
places nearby right for a long time now his situation was difficult because he was like a known Petty criminal okay
he's got very small charges against him leading up to this and when they talk to
him we have a weird situation because this guy they really believe that this could be their dude this dude's quite
Cooperative in my opinion from what I could see one he he didn't you know run and hide from them he spoke with police
multiple times I believe he passed a lie detector test a polygraph test but what happens is he admits to being in
the general area that night and around about the time they believe that the fire started and they were like well
what what were you doing in the area he's like I was trying to steal car stereos in the parking lot behind East
17th Avenue MH when uh well what stopped you well I got into an altercation with
somebody now I don't know the details of that because what would be interesting to know is could that altercation have
been one either somebody that lived at the home that that was eventually burnt down where we have the five homicides or
was it was it from a different house or was it just a passer by you know somebody that sees somebody doing
something wrong and says hey buddy what the hell you doing you know tries to chase the dude
off so their thought is that whatever happened between between this uh Robert Patterson whatever attempt to scare him
off from trying to steal car stereos from the from behind the East 17th Avenue that he got pissed off and
decided to set this fire now he does admit a couple of things that are tricky one he admits that he has blackout
periods and he has a drug and alcohol problem and that he was on he was using drugs and alcohol that night he also
states that he was carrying matches with him that night now this could be something as simple as you know you got
to kind of put yourself in the in this interrogation room when you when you hear these things these statements given
by what we are told our suspects so we're like oh [ __ ] this guy was in the area around that same time he was
carrying matches looks pretty good to me but in the interrogation room it's not it's not so much that man it's it's uh
do you smoke yes okay well were were you carrying a lighter with you that night I
don't know do you always carry a lighter sometimes I carry matches were you carrying matches with you that night
probably okay well we have this fire okay but I smoke you know I I I light a cigarette from time to time you know
so it's it's one of those things where they have this guy and they go to bring charges against him they arrest him and
there there's some famous pictures of him Loc Al anywhere where they have the you know they have the protective vest
on him while while they're leading him in and out of uh the police department because a lot of people thought somebody
might try to take a shot at this guy and they hold him for a number of days but there's a rule that once you're
arrested they have to be able to bring formal charges against you at some point you can't just hold somebody forever and
sit around while you you know twiddle your thumbs and try to come up with charges against this person yeah so as
the deadline approached for that the prosecutor the central Ohio prosecutor let the guy he released this Patterson
guy and the thing was was he didn't have enough evidence to bring these formal charges against him so we talk about so
many times on this show and we see it so many times in the media and on TV and in
the newspapers where we as Citizens question what information they had you know we we just got done talking about
Adan Sayed for for three or four weeks right here here's a case where we have a prosecutor that says pump the brakes a
little bit we might not have a case here and of course the prosecutor has to keep
in mind that he's got double double jeopardy to worry about at all times but we have somebody that I believe is
doing a good job and says pump the brakes here we can't we can't charge this individual
with this we don't have enough evidence we don't have we don't have a confession
from the guy right we don't have a a bunch of evidence tying him to and you know what public
opinion especially at the time it didn't take long to arrest this dude but public
opinion at the time they were looking for somebody to hang you know five college students five
young young adults killed all in one foul swoop yeah they were looking for somebody to
hang and this and that's why they were putting that vest on on Patterson they thought somebody was going to take a
shot at this guy that's how bad they wanted somebody to to uh face Justice for this horrible horrible incident and
I say incident because I'm kind of left years later wondering if this could have just been a
straight up accident of some sort that like you said somebody somebody flicks a cigarette the wrong way and you got you
got lighter fluid charcoal grill tiki torches you know you or or take or or take Patterson for example and this is
completely hypothetical he he is uh in the area he's trying to break into the cars whatever he's doing right somebody
goes hey get out of here it's one of the friends at the party mhm Patterson comes
around the block notice that you know starts walking around notices hey there's nobody at that party anymore
just light the the sofa on on fire or a chair on fire or whatever just to to kind of be a
nuisance then people end up dead again it's one of those things where it's like what
evidence they don't they're not going to ever have the nail to uh the final nail in
the coffin unless somebody confesses right from we can guess that anyways well yeah no no I I agree with
that 100% but I I also stick by what police have continued to say since 2003 and I would say that this case probably
went cold about a year or so after that's when it seemed to die down that they were going to be able to bring
charges against Patterson but I I do stick by what the thing that they remind the public about every year around this
time of the anniversary is that look so we believe not just the person that started this fire we believe that
somebody else somebody that knows the person that started this fire knows something has been told something or saw
something at some point we are asking you to come forward because we don't believe that the person that set this
fire is going to come forward right right right which I understand so maybe there is
somebody then you got to you know hopefully and I agree with them that's the person that's going to come forward
the person that actually did it whether it's an accident or not they know if if I open up my big mouth I might be going
to jail for Life M and um so so gives you a lot of motivation not to talk yeah so as we talk about this
Captain I'm scrolling through different uh articles because as I said every time
every year around this time they start releasing articles um reminding us about this tragedy and reminding us that
they're still looking for the perpetrator of the fire that led to these five homicides and
so some of the information here says unknown lie detector test results regarding Patterson so I want to be
clear about that I think I said earlier that that I believed he might have passed one but it says unknown lie
detector test results and then also we have a statement this is 2004 so this is April 2004 one year
after the fire where Ron O'Brien Ron O'Brien was the prosecutor at the time that was uh trying to put this case
together and he says a year after the fire that police are still investigating Robert
Patterson among others is his statement so I think we have a situation here where the police really felt like they
had their guy and I think maybe Ron O'Brien the prosecutors is going not so certain not so certain it could still be
somebody else [Applause]

Ohio State Campus Fire of 2003 Off The Record /// Episode: 50 www.truecrimegarage.com Nic and the Captain discuss: The Ohio State Campus fire of 2003 that left 5 dead.

Brief Summary

A 2003 arson fire near Ohio State University killed five students; the case remains unsolved 20 years later.

Key points

Cobra Kai Excitement. Discussion about the upcoming season of Cobra Kai and its themes of youth and conflict.
Tragic Arson Fire. A tragic fire at a birthday party near Ohio State University claimed five lives.
Unsolved Mystery. The case remains unsolved, with investigators still seeking answers about the fire's origins.
The Suspicious Fire. Authorities suspect arson in a tragic fire that killed five college students.
The Arrest of Robert Patterson. A 20-year-old man is arrested in connection with the fire, but evidence is lacking.
The Ongoing Investigation. Despite the arrest, the investigation remains open as police seek more information.

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I remember like what it felt like to be 21.

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