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Oct 25, 2022 MrBallen Podcast
In 1984, a 19 year old hardware store employee named Jim, was walking from one end of the store to the other, when he noticed something odd in one of the aisles. He stared at it for a second, not really sure what to make of it, before turning around and walking back where he came from, to start telling staff and customers to evacuate. Little did Jim know, in a matter of seconds, that building was going to turn into a living hell.
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Official records (including court records, inmate records, obituaries, police reports)
United States of America, Plaintiff-appellant, v. John Leonard Orr (1992)
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/...
United States of America, Plaintiff-appellant, v. John Leonard Orr (1994)
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/...
BOOKS
Wambaugh, Joseph. Fire Lover. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
MAGAZINES
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON WEB
Firefighters searched the rubble of a gutted hardware store (1984)
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/10/...
Ex-fire investigator gets life term in fatal arson (1998)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...
SUBSCRIPTION NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
10/12/84- 4 bodies are found in store ashes
https://www.newspapers.com/image/4011...
10/13/84- Four victims of Pasadena store fire identified
https://www.newspapers.com/image/4011...
10/13/84- South Pasadena fire victims identified
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1194...
10/17/84- Ole’s patron’s didn’t recognize alarms in city’s worst catastrophe
https://www.newspapers.com/image/6074... (page 1)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/6074... (continued)
5/7/98- Trial begins for ex-Glendale firefighter accused of 4 deaths in South Pasadena
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1604...
7/1/98= Prosecutor pushes for execution in Orr penalty phase
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1590...
OBITUARIES AND DEATH RECORDS
Ada Deal & Matthew Troidl
https://www.newspapers.com/image/4015...
Carolyn Furiani Kraus
https://www.sphsaa.org/class_profile....
DOCUMENTARIES
Season 9, episode 21- Forensic Files (Points of Origin)
• Forensic Files - Season 9, Episode 21...
Hunt for the serial arsonist, John Orr
• Video
INTERNET ARTICLES
My firefighter father John Orr got sexual thrills from his murderous arson
https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/john-...
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