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More on Texas Arson Cases From Dave Mann

By Steve Hall

The Texas Observer journalist writes, "Fire and Innocence," for the November 27th issue.  It's an extensive article and a must-read.  Here's the beginning:Gerald Hurst is one of the nation?s foremost authorities on fire and explosives. At age 72, he?s tall and lean, with graying hair combed back on his head and a white beard?think Santa Claus after a Nutrisystem diet. Within minutes of welcoming me into his West Austin home in the fall of 2008, he had me hooked, recounting vivid, head-scratching stories of person after person who?d been wrongly convicted of arson. That was what I?d come to hear. I had developed a fascination with arson cases?specifically, with the methods fire investigators used to distinguish intentionally set fires from accidental ones...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).