Tag: ARSON

Thirty-year-old Yoshifumi Takabe did what any emotionally repressed nerd might do when his mother, with whom he lived, threw out some of his robot action figures. He burned down the house. Takabe, who says he became suicidal after losing the Gundam 'bots that he considered his life partners, just plead guilty in Kobe District Court for setting the blaze in 2009. ...

A pregnant Los Angeles teen was arrested earlier this week after allegedly starting seven fires within two blocks of her house. 19-year-old Amanda Gessner was caught after convenience store cameras caught her chanting, "The fire company is gonna be mad at me!" She was certainly right about that! According to police, Gessner exhibited "pyromaniac tendencies" and had been following firefighters ...

We've reported on plenty of tools and services designed to help you locate nearby sex offenders, all designed with the hopes of enabling parents to keep their children safe. Critics of these tools often say that they can make those sex offenders targets of retribution crimes by would-be vigilantes, and that seems to be just what was attempted in a case of arson in Evansville, Indiana. There, a ...