The Arsonist Is a Woman

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Tanya Bundick was born and raised in Acha-Mac County, New Jersey. The sheriff's office spent four months trying to track down the arsonist. Eventually they found an image of a person standing by an abandoned house. They thought it might be a woman but could not make out what she looked like.

On November 12th, 2012, the Accomack County volunteer fire departments got a call. An abandoned house had suddenly gone up in flames. And then, just hours later, a second fire was reported. Then a third. Over the next few months, there would be a lot more fires—nearly 90 in all. It was all anyone could talk about in Accomack. Someone was burning down the entire county.

Monica Hesse's book is American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land.

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