Neighborhood watch groups were also set during the entire period. Keller barely avoided identification when a task force member called his father to ask if his advertising agency had rented a car with temporary plates and a window card. Paul was even stopped for driving under the influence while on his way to a fire site, but was let go.
Eventually, Sno-King managed to obtain a partial license plate number and a hypnotically-enhanced composite sketch of the arsonist from the recollection of witness Bonnie Spurrier. On January 27, , the drawing was released to the public along with a behavioral profile.
At that point, the task force put Paul under round-the-clock surveillance. In the end, on the morning of February 6, soon after he had manifested his intention to leave the Seattle area, they decided to arrest him at his home.
In order to make him feel important and obtain a confession, task force members escorted Keller to their headquarters in a police convoy with sirens blaring. He would later admit more. Later that same year, he also confessed to one more fire for which he was not tried, as well as to the September 22, fire at the Four Freedoms Retirement Home. After he pleaded guilty to two first-degree murder charges and entered an Alford plea to the third, in March he was sentenced to ninety-nine years of imprisonment to be served concurrently with his first seventy-five years sentence.
He would not be released before Keller targeted both unoccupied and occupied buildings stationed along his sales routes, and set them on fire with a cigarette lighter. He would light whatever flammable material he could find e.
He would sometimes build a tepee out of combustible material he found at the scene. Paul coordinated with fire brigades through an emergency scanner he brought with himself. He would have a long-standing interest in fires, going back to early childhood, where he set small fires close to home. He is a police or fire department buff who would have applied for volunteer or tried to become a professional as a means to obtain identity and authority , but would have failed one way or another, compounding his frustration with his life.
The arsonist would be an emotional loner, whose relationships with women have not worked out. This would also be reflected in his school years, where he had few friends, was considered an oddball by his classmates, was an underachiever who never lived up to his full potential, and had a disruptive influence.
As a compensation for his low self-esteem, he would be obsessed with his appearance, always wanting to put up a good front. Those with whom he works or socialize would notice him going into a rage with little provocation, all the while being also incapable of admitting fault.
His pornographic interests would be something related to bondage and other forms of control. He was described as wearing nice clothes and driving a new car, so he would have a good job and is not a pathetic loser, the problem being his own self-perception: he only feels in control when he is marshaling the resources of an entire region and capturing the public fear.
The organization and efficiency of the arsons suggest he probably scouts out the sites during the day, returning to set the fires later at night. This means he has a salesman-like job which would render him unaccountable for his daytime.
A salesman job would also allow him to drive long distances on his own, which is typical of serial offenders. Kotulak, R. Curry, C. Marcus, A. Pyromania—The Evaluation of a Symptom Pattern. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Univ. Levin, B. Lubrano, A. Murphy, D. Murphy; Dvorchak, R. Jayaprakash, J. Jung, D. Bolger, D. Connelly, M.
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Mydans, S. Orr, J. She has published in a number of fields. Sign in. Forgot your password? Some do it for financial gain. Some are seeking revenge. Some want to be heroes. Types of arson motives identified are 1 pyromania, What happens when you burn down your property during a property settlement to avoid transferring it to your former partner? It is an offence under the New South Wales Crimes Act which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment. Mass: Three or more fires set at the same time in the same location.
Spree: Three or more fires set at different locations, but with no cooling off period between. Serial: Three or more fires set at different locations, with a period of time passing between them. First, there has been a burning of property. Second, the burning is incendiary in origin, and finally, the burning was started with the intent of destroying the property. A few others are institutionalized for psychiatric treatment as an alter- native to conviction.
Female fire-setters in a recent study were more often diagnosed with depression, substance abuse, and personality disorder than male arsonists. Fire-setters appear to be a discrete group of criminal offenders with a distinguishing constellation of psychological characteristics. Why is arson not included in crime statistics? Because of this unevenness of reporting, arson offenses are excluded from Tables , all of which contain offense estimations. In addition, Metropolitan Statistical Area, state, and national offense rates per , inhabitants found in Tables 1, 2, and do not include arson data.
What was the average cost of an arson in ? Arson offenses decreased 7. Where can I find a list of arsons? The number of arsons reported by individual law enforcement agencies is available in Tables , arson trend data indicating a year-to-year change are in Tables , and arson clearance data crimes solved can be found in Arson Table 2 and Tables Table of Contents.
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