Unmasking a Killer Serial Arsonist

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  @Abstract · 2 years ago · pinned

  Watch the White Vault right here on YouTube: <a href="https://bit.ly/3UVzASX">https://bit.ly/3UVzASX</a> (or wherever you get your podcasts).

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  @angelofdusk13 · 8 months ago

  The lack of communication between jurisdictions is also why there were so many serial killers in California--sometimes operating at the same time. The Golden State Killer was able to get away with it for so long because of it--he was a police officer and KNEW precincts hated working together. He knew to hop between jurisdictions, and he also gradually escalated from theft to assault to murder. It&apos;s so infuriating when you watch a lot of true crime and see that happen over and over again.

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  @tatecore · 2 years ago

  When a YouTube channel has all of 8 videos and still has managed to amass almost 400k subs it&apos;s a pretty clear testament to the quality of those videos.

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  @MoinCoin · 1 year ago

  &quot;btw im not the arsonist&quot;<br>incredible

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  @blaake7892 · 1 year ago

  Marv is the real hero of this story - and of course the three amigos - but Marv narrowing the suspect list from every person in the LA area down to ten people is crazy impressive. The only reason he didn&apos;t figure out who it was years earlier is because he didn&apos;t have access to the entire database and the limitations of the fingerprint technology.

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  @pdcmadla · 2 years ago

  You already know Marv was insufferable at the next Arson Investigators Conference after John was charged lol

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  @autoresponder9817 · 2 years ago

  The absolute Freudian slip of starting an introspective piece in 3rd person about the acts committed by your character and then ending it with a 1st person remark.<br><br>The audacity of this man. Absolutely amazing documentary.

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  @TheSpitfireShow · 1 year ago (edited)

  I wanna start off by saying that you did great job on telling the story of John Orr. I am the son of Dennis Wilson and I knew John&apos;s other partner Doug too. There were times when I wasn&apos;t able to go with my dad to investigate the fires, so I would stay at the firehouse with John. John would let me climb all over the fire trucks and try on all the gear. There were also times when I went up to Fresno with my folks for the gathering of the California Conference of arson Investigation a.k.a. the C.C.A.I.. John would walk up to us and start talking to my dad about work and I would sometimes smell cigarette smoke on him even though he didn&apos;t smoke, but back in the 80&apos;s a lot of people smoked, so I didn&apos;t really think too much of it at the time. The one thing I can tell you is that John wanted to be an officer, but couldn&apos;t pass the psychiatrist test, eventually he became an arson investigator. John was going to do anything to prove that he was the best investigator there ever was for the city of Glendale. To this day my dad hates talking about John and I can see why. My dad put a lot of trust in John. I mean he left his kid with him and he was a close personal friend of the family until the trial. There were times I picked up the phone and it was John calling from prison trying to talk to my dad, But we were told to always say to him that my dad wasn&apos;t home. Wow!!! There are so many memories coming back while I&apos;m trying to write this. I&apos;m gonna end it here. This is really the first time I&apos;ve mentioned anything in years. Thanks again for putting a good story together and sharing it.

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  @Y3ll0wSm0k3 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFUTB48dSd8&amp;t=580">9:40</a> I am actually a college student majoring in fire science and I wanna say the reality of a flashover is more terrifying. A flashover in laymen’s terms is when everything in a compartment reaches its ignition temperature at once; the contents, the smoke, and you.

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  @somelurker6115 · 2 years ago

  &quot;It was too bad about the baby, but shit, it wasn&apos;t my fault.&quot;<br><br>Jesus. What a cold-blooded line.

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  @The_Khuzdul1 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The fact that the Witness descriptions of john called him &apos;Average&apos; must have infuriated him

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  @duskydancing6409 · 2 years ago

  The fact that the arsonist remembered what flavor of ice cream that little boy wanted and recollected it in detail is incredibly disturbing. And blaming a woman and her grandchild for dying in a fire for &quot;behaving stupidly&quot; and absolving himself of murder... I can&apos;t imagine how the victims&apos; families, especially Billy, felt hearing that chapter be read in court.

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