S4 Ep35: Firefighter-Turned-Arsonist John Leonard Orr

S4 Ep35: Firefighter-Turned-Arsonist John Leonard Orr

As a series of brush and building fires baffled most firefighters in the Los Angeles region, John Orr of the Glendale Fire Department seemed amazingly skilled at identifying the cause of each blaze. He was so skilled at his job, in fact, that he was routinely asked to train other firefighters. Turned out, though, there was a sinister reason for Orr's success.

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ENCORE: The Life and Death of Sam Cooke

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S6 Ep3: The Shepherd's Bush Massacre

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S6 Ep2: Brief Against Death: After Edgar Smith's Release

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S6 Ep1: Brief Against Death: The Murder of Victoria Zielinski

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In 1957, Edgar Smith was sentenced to death for the murder of a teenage girl in New Jersey. From his prison cell, he began writing letters, essays and arguments build a case not in court, but on the p...

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S5 Ep46: The Mysterious Death of Hitler's Niece

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In 1931, Adolf Hitler’s 23-year-old niece, Geli Raubal, was found dead in the Führer's Munich apartment. Authorities ruled it a suicide. But the evidence didn’t settle easily—and neither did the silen...

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