Burn, Baby..Burn
If you are going to commit at crime at least make sure your own camera’s don’t catch you doing it…
An apparent feud between two Oklahoma homeowners led to an alleged arsonist setting fire to her neighbor’s home, and the alleged crime was caught on cameras that she owned.
“She caught herself on camera setting the fire,” said Chief Brandon Pursell, with the Del City Fire Department.
Once the flames were out, officials said fire investigators took a closer look. Del City investigators learned there was a feud between the burnt home’s owner and the lady living next door.
“Things started adding up, being suspicious,” Pursell said.
Investigators noticed the woman had cameras in the area next to her neighbor. She gave consent for investigators to look at the password-protected recorded footage.
Thanks to help from the Oklahoma City Police Department, Del City fire officials found pictures of 59-year-old Annie Durham allegedly throwing something on fire over her fence into the neighbor’s open side door.
Fire officials said fighting the fire could have been a disaster. When they finally entered the house, they found a flooded basement with eight feet of standing water.
“It placed our firefighters at great harm. We could easily be talking about a firefighter fatality,” Pursell said. “We understand the neighborhood dispute, but you definitely don’t resort to fire as a means of conflict resolution.”
