ABOUT THIS EPISODE
For twelve years, Detective Maria Santos chased a serial arsonist whose fires claimed seventeen lives across three counties. The breakthrough came not from forensics or witness testimony, but from a pattern hidden in plain sight—one that revealed the killer had been attending every victim's funeral, signing every condolence book.
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