Throughout the mid-1980s and early-1990s, Los Angeles was plagued by a series of fires that claimed the lives of four people and cost the state millions of dollars in damages. Investigators concluded that the arsonist, nicknamed the Pillow Pyro, started the fires. For years the Pillow Pyro evaded the police. That was until new fingerprint technology emerged revealing the suspect’s identity, shocking even veteran police investigators. For more visit lightsonpod.com and be sure to subscribe.

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