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SERIAL KILLER: Bruce George Lee (The 12 Year Old Arsonist)
This week Sophie take us back to Hull in the 1970's to tell us about Bruce George Lee, an arsonist whose pyromaniac tendencies led to the deaths of at least 15 people, including men, women and children.
Born the son of a sex worker, his mother would routinely call her son a 'freak' due to his epileptic fits and his deformed right arm, he was raised in various care homes. At the age of just nine years old, he committed his first crime of renown. He caused a fire at a shopping centre that caused £17,000 worth of damage. (That's nearly £250,000 in today's money!)
He would go on to commit a total of 30 fires, but most of these were initially ruled as accidents until a fire on Selby Street, where whilst being interviewed by police about this case, he confessed to starting that fire and many others.
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By Sophie Hardbattle, Craig Gilchrist, Shaun RussellThis week Sophie take us back to Hull in the 1970's to tell us about Bruce George Lee, an arsonist whose pyromaniac tendencies led to the deaths of at least 15 people, including men, women and children.
Born the son of a sex worker, his mother would routinely call her son a 'freak' due to his epileptic fits and his deformed right arm, he was raised in various care homes. At the age of just nine years old, he committed his first crime of renown. He caused a fire at a shopping centre that caused £17,000 worth of damage. (That's nearly £250,000 in today's money!)
He would go on to commit a total of 30 fires, but most of these were initially ruled as accidents until a fire on Selby Street, where whilst being interviewed by police about this case, he confessed to starting that fire and many others.
You can find us on: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/textmepod/
and Twitter - https://twitter.com/TextMePod
and Discord - https://discord.gg/qNhWuHYW