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Chapter Six | The Novelist

Firebug

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1991. Investigators finally make an arrest in the largest arson investigation in history. Host Kary Antholis sits down with the author of “Points Of Origin.” Is his book a confession? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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December 4th, 1991, I left my house here as I usually do it 7, 7, 10 in the morning.

0:43.9

For Glendale Arson Investigator John Orr, December 4th, 1991, began like just another

0:49.9

Wednesday.

0:51.8

As I was blocking the trunk of my car, I looked towards my neighbor's house, and here's

0:56.6

a guy standing in the driveway behind a cypress bush, he had a gun in his hand, of course

1:03.0

I got my attention right away, and I also was carrying my duty gun on my left ankle,

1:10.3

and so my first thought was to analyze what's going on here and then go for my gun.

1:18.2

At that time I then heard a car pull into my driveway, about 25, 30 feet away, and saw

1:24.5

that was a black and white LAPD unit with two uniform guys getting out of it.

1:29.1

So I started to back off a little bit, feeling that, okay, they're here in response to the

1:34.0

man with a gun call next door at my neighbor's house, I remember looking up, seeing about

1:41.5

18 or 20 guys converging on my car and my front porch, and my wife just kind of stand

1:46.0

in there.

1:47.0

You know, three seconds into this scenario, I heard a voice yelling, my name, John, don't

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