It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.

Serial arson in rural Virginia: a love story.

The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.

After flames engulfed an Atlanta highway last year, police arrested Basil Eleby for arson. The fire could have destroyed his life. Instead, it may have saved it.

Thomas Sweatt torched D.C. for decades and was finally jailed for killing one person. During a year-long correspondence from prison with a reporter, he confessed there were more.

A murder, a missing deer head, and a Mr. Big sting.

A rash of building fires in San Francisco has many speculating that the fault lies with landlords hoping to oust their poor tenants. One anonymous landlord describes his failed plan to do exactly that.

Ira Tobolowsky, a prominent lawyer, was burned alive in his North Dallas garage. A strong suspect quickly emerged. So why can’t the cops solve the case?

A small town upstate, a Queens ambulance veteran, and a murder

An Italian town plagued by mysterious fires turns to science, the church, and the law in a search for answers.

On Lucille Miller, who in San Bernadino in 1964 was convicted of burning her husband to death in his Volkswagen.

The tale of the first conviction overturned on faulty arson science.

The flawed science that helped convict a Tennessee man of murder.

In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for starting a fire that killed his three daughters. The case hinged on the testimony of a jailhouse informant named Johnny E. Webb. Today, Webb says he lied.

From prison, a member of the Earth Liberation Front tells her story.

For 18 months, Coatesville, Penn., was besieged with an improbable number of arsons.  But who started the fires – and why?

Early last year, 10 churches were torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.