I am a shameless fan of the genre of real crime and, for a while, I could not have enough of the real criminal podcasts. But you can get too much a macabre thing, so I exploited the brakes on my real crime consumption. In doing so, I’m sure I have missed a lot of super podcasts, and it looks like one of those was “Firebug”. Produced by Truth.Media and hosted by Kary Antholis, the 10 -part series details the incredibly true story by John Leonard Orr, a former criminal fire investigator who was found guilty of having committed more criminal fire than any other unique person in American history.
Orr would have been active for 30 years, although most of his crimes were committed between 1984 and 1991. Now in the mid -1970s, he is currently serving a perpetuity sentence without the possibility of parole at California State prison in Centine. While most of the stories of serial killers generate the suspense of investigators trying to establish a model in anticipation of the next murder, “Firebug” tells the strangely fascinating story of a man who, in at least one case, investigated his own crime.
In 1984, Orr burnt down the Home Center of Ole in South Pasadena, California, who killed four people (including a two -year -old child). When the fire investigators concluded that the fire was caused by an electric fire, Orr in fact insisted that it was an act of criminal fire.
Orr has made a wave of fire to fire after that, mainly daring to catch it by fixing its incendiaries near conventions for fire investigators (which he attended). Orr found itself on a list of suspects after a fire from 1989 which he lit in Pacific Grove, California, but was excluded when his digital imprint did not correspond to that discovered near the crime scene.
The most fascinating element in Orr’s story is that he wrote a crime book entitled “Points of Origin” which has essentially doubled as a confession. The discovery of this book helped the State finally charged and condemn Orr. However, despite his apparent desire to get caught, he resolutely denied being the culprit. His daughter also believed him, going so far as to testify for his defense during his trial. Years later, she reconciled with the obvious guilt of her father and cut her with her life.
Even if I now know the miniature sketch of the story of Orr (and I have read the reactions of mixed criticism), I am still booming to watch “smoke”. Lehane is one of our greatest mysteries / crimes novelists and has done a sensational job for television via her contributions to series like “The Wire” and “Boardwalk Empire”. He also wrote the thriller 2014 extremely sub-Sous-Sous-Estimo of Michaël R. Roskam, so I am forever to look at anything with his name on it. Factor in Egerton as a character based on Orr, plus a support distribution which includes Jurnee Smollett, John Leguizamo, Greg Kinnear, Rafe Spall and Anna Chlumsky and “Smoke” rings like an essential summer series.
“Smoke” is now streaming on Apple TV +.
