Starting Fires - March 6 2021 - Daily True Crime
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Morning Cup of Murder
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🗓️ 6 March 2021
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| 0:00.0 | There were two more murders 15 miles away. |
| 0:02.6 | When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
| 0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
| 0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
| 0:12.9 | A cop of murder. |
| 0:14.8 | Revenge can be a scary thing. |
| 0:17.2 | It can turn the most mild-mannered man into a monster and take over the lives of those with mental illness. |
| 0:23.8 | On March 6, 1999, a man hell-bent on revenge took out four generations of the day family. |
| 0:32.0 | So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. |
| 0:41.9 | On March 6th, 1999 at around 1 a.m., neighbors of the Day family in Chingford, London, woke |
| 0:49.1 | the sounds of screams and looked out of their window to see flames rising from the windows of the multi-story home. |
| 0:56.8 | An elderly woman made her escape through one of the first floor windows with the help of some |
| 1:00.7 | neighborhood men and a building ladder, while another, a man, was taken to a local hospital |
| 1:06.2 | to receive treatment for his burnt hands. A neighbor would later say that as she ran downstairs to call |
| 1:12.8 | 999, she heard the children she knew were inside, coughing, and crying. But as she made |
| 1:19.7 | attempts to gather supplies to help, the crying and screaming abruptly stopped. According to her |
| 1:25.4 | story, all that could be heard then was 21-year-old Kelly |
| 1:28.9 | Hemphin screaming for someone to get my babies before collapsing and being rushed to the hospital. |
| 1:36.2 | Some sources claimed she would arrive hours later but was no less devastated by the news |
| 1:40.8 | that her children had perished inside of the home. |
| 1:50.1 | Also inside, when it was set alight, was 22-year-old Lee Day, his 17-year-old girlfriend, |
| 1:56.0 | Yvonne Colverhouse, his twin daughters, three-year-old Madison and Riannon, his two-year-old son, Reese, his 50-year-old mother, Sandra, and the woman who escaped through the window, was 76-year-old Kathleen, |
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