WTF Really Happened To 'The Burning'?

Urban legends are mostly just that, the stuff of legends. They can inspire some people to do horrifying things and create urban legends of their own. Very often, these stories get the movie or show treatment whether they hue close to anything factual or not. Cropsey was a Staten Island folk tale that made the rounds scaring kids and a camping variation of it inspired a 5-page treatment that would become the cult classic 1981 film The Burning. While it was inspired by folklore, how much did it end up mirroring a real convicted criminal? Don’t look in any abandoned rafts as we find out what REALLY happened to The Burning!