Speaker 1: No one in Los Angeles does just one thing. She's
Speaker 1: a model actress, he's a singer, songwriter, and almost everyone
Speaker 1: is a writer director. In l A lingo, they call
Speaker 1: these fancy titles multi hyphen its, and of course they're
Speaker 1: mostly just talk. Few of these wild eyed dreamers ever
Speaker 1: make their mark in any of the things they claim
Speaker 1: to do, but not in this case. This is the
Speaker 1: story of one of l A's most intriguing and original
Speaker 1: multi hyphen its, a writer who in the nineties wrote
Speaker 1: a memorable novel about a sad loner who sets fires
Speaker 1: around Los Angeles because it turns him on sexually. Chapter
Speaker 1: one is about a fire, Chapter two is about a
Speaker 1: different fire, Chapter three, Chapter four, Chapter five, Fire Fire Fire.
Speaker 1: This book was not a great work of fiction, But
Speaker 1: if you looked closer at the details of the different
Speaker 1: fires described in each chapter as investigators and prosecutors, eventually
Speaker 1: did you discovered that this might not be a work
Speaker 1: of fiction at all. This book starts to look a
Speaker 1: lot like the real confessions of one of the most
Speaker 1: elusive and prolific arsonists in American history. A brush Fire
Speaker 1: burned twenty nine other fires, left an eighteen million dollar
Speaker 1: trail of ashes. Southern California was being deep to death
Speaker 1: with fires. Governor George Duke Major offered a fifty dollar
Speaker 1: reward or the arrest of the arsonists. This Firebug left
Speaker 1: investigators so stumped that they started to wonder. I told
Speaker 1: him it's one of us. Everybody kind of just looks
Speaker 1: at me. This is the incendiary true story of the
Speaker 1: man who spent years lighting up Los Angeles more than anyone.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get this guy, a master fire starter, the
Speaker 1: Mostlympic arsonist of the twentieth century, turned writer. I'm going
Speaker 1: to confess in a book what I've been doing for
Speaker 1: the past seven years, who inevitably became the worst was
Speaker 1: in a home improvement store where four people died, including
Speaker 1: a child. A murderer too. I'm carry Antholis and this
Speaker 1: is Firebug, a new audio series coming soon to Apple
Speaker 1: Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. This guy's not
Speaker 1: gonna stop, you know, if firebugs don't stop,