John Leonard Orr

For instance, in 1984, a Los Angeles police officer named Danny Lee Bridges had planted a fake bomb at the Olympics, only to discover it later and gain recognition.

And in 1988, a California volunteer firefighter named John Orr had secretly set fires across the state just so he could later extinguish them and be hailed as a savior.

Jewell suddenly looked a lot less like a hero and more like a prime suspect.

By Monday morning on July 29th, the Bureau launched a preliminary investigation into Richard's background.

Oh, I'm basking in it.

We have another wild case for you today that has a surprising amount of similarities to our John Orr tale, which is something I completely forgot until we started digging back into this case.

This is an oldie.

Yeah, I don't think, I'm not super familiar with this case.

But thanks to our genealogist, Shannon, we are going to get some insight into the lives of our victims who before now had basically been reduced to a statistic.

Yeah, that's really one thing that I really love about doing this show and these cases to get things out there about people.

And I had an issue with the John Orr case, the two-parter, because there was so little information about the victims, but yet there's books and books and documentaries on him.

Right, on John.

People lose their jobs due to the stores closing, and a lot of them didn't rebuild.

It's really bad, and This prompts the formation of the Pillow Pyro Task Force.

And that name was given because so many of the fires were being set at like linen stores, fabric stores and places that sold items with polyurethane bedding and pillows.

It's a great name.