We Would Be Dead

Bringing The Heat (Thomas Sweatt)


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WWBD is heating up this week! Leslie takes the reins and tells a story about America’s most prolific serial arsonist. In 2005, arson investigators arrested Thomas Sweatt, a 50 year old KFC Fry Cook, for a slew of arsons in and around the Washington, DC area. They were arresting him for only a handful of recent arsons, but he would go on to confess to 353 fires dating back almost 30 years and killing at least 4 people.

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Read the book my research was based on:

Thomas Sweat: Inside the Mind of DC's Most Notorious Arsonist by Jonathan Riffe

Washington City Paper: Letters From an Arsonist 

 

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