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Criminal

527 Lime Street

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Just before midnight on October 15, 1990, police arrived at 527 Lime Street in Jacksonville, Florida to find the small wood-frame house on fire. A man named Gerald Lewis was standing in the front yard. He said there were people inside the house. What happened next was so unusual that it changed the way we think about arson. We speak with attorney Frank Ashton and fire investigator John Lentini about the Lime Street case and why it was so important. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:25.0

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0:30.0

Just before midnight on October 15th, 1990, police arrived at 527 Lyme Street in Jacksonville, Florida, to find a small two-story wood-frame house on fire.

0:45.0

An officer later described smoke and flames coming out of the windows and front door

0:52.0

and a 35-year-old African-American man, Gerald Lewis,

0:56.4

standing in the front yard, yelling.

0:59.0

He was holding a toddler.

1:00.8

He said there were still people inside the house.

1:05.0

Gerald Lewis said he'd been asleep in a car in front of the house when the fire started.

1:10.0

He indicated that he looked toward the house when he heard a sound and he saw in the window of the living room flames coming up from a couch which was right in front of the window.

1:24.1

He indicated that he got out of the car.

1:26.4

He ran to the front door.

1:28.5

He pounded on the door, awoke the occupants of the house, at least his wife, who was sleeping downstairs.

1:36.4

This is attorney, Frank Ashton.

1:39.2

Together they attempted to extinguish the fire. He and she ran back and forth to the kitchen to get

1:46.7

pots of water to throw the pots of water on the couch. Those efforts were not successful.

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