4. John Leonard Orr
John Leonard Orr was a fire marshal and arson investigator. Noble career choices, right? Maybe for someone other than John Leonard Orr. Orr was also a serial arsonist! He set more than 2,000 fires throughout Southern California during the 80s and 90s. The damages caused by Orr’s fires cost the state over hundreds of millions of dollars. The fires also claimed the lives of 4 people, including a toddler.
Orr would set fires in crowded stores after he started small brush fires. The brush fires would draw the fire department out of town so that his fires would be able to spread and inflict maximum damage. He is known as the worst serial arsonist in history. He’s currently serving a life sentence plus an extra 20 years without the possibility of parole. Orr wrote an autobiography detailing his innocence, which he still maintains to this day
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