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Case 98: The Pillow Pyro

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Points of Origin by John Orr

John Orr presented Points of Origin as a work of fiction, but it was impossible for the task force not to read the manuscript as a confession. By November 22, 1991, John Orr had been under surveillance for approximately seven months when a fire broke out on the set of a television show at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank. The contents of a fictional novel could not be proven as an admission of guilt or used as concrete evidence of a real-life crime. Regardless, the manuscript was picked apart for any information that could be useful to the investigation including the potential motivation behind John Orr's alleged actions. After the two investigators examined the scene, they agreed the fire was a result of

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