Arsonist, The [electronic resource] : A Mind on Fire

Chloe Hooper2018

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Summary

The Arsonist takes listeners inside the hunt for a fire-lighter. After Black Saturday, a February 2009 day marked by 47 degree heat and firestorms, arson squad detectives arrived at a plantation on the edge of a 26,000-hectare burn site. Eleven people had just been killed and hundreds made homeless. Here, in the Latrobe Valley, where Victoria's electricity is generated, and the rates of unemployment, crime and domestic abuse are the highest in the state, more than 30 people were known to police as firebugs. But the detectives soon found themselves on the trail of a man they didn't know. The Arsonist tells a remarkable detective story, as the police close in on someone they believe to be a cunning offender, and a puzzling psychological story, as defence lawyers seek to understand the motives of a man who, they claimed, was a naif that had accidentally dropped a cigarette. It is the story not only of this fire - how it happened, the people who died, the aftermath for the...