Scenario: Two high school sweethearts decided to get married after they finished high school because there was a baby in the oven and they felt it was the correct thing to do. Neither of the two had a decent job and financially they were not doing well. By the time the baby came, the man had gotten a job with the coroner’s office as a Preparatory Technician and the woman was working part time at the local baby shop in town. For the first two years, they were able to make ends meet, but there wasn’t any money left over after bills and general expenses. During their short marriage they had managed to afford to take out a life insurance policy on him for $250,000.00 just in case something would happen to him.

One night after they finished calculating the bills for the month, the husband came up with an idea to fake his death, get the insurance money, and move to Canada. The two developed the particulars for faking his death and set out to put the plan into action. They would dig up a body from the grave yard and put it in the man’s car, set the car on fire with kerosene, and push it over a cliff located on the north end of town to make it look like an accident. One foggy night, the couple went out and dug up a body from the grave yard and put the body in the man’s car, pored kerosene all over the car and set it on fire, and pushed it down a steep embankment. They then went home and at about 2:00am the next morning, the wife called and reported that her husband was missing because he hadn’t made it home. The husband went to a very secluded town to hide out until the funeral for him was over.

When the investigators came over to take the statement of the wife as to what she thought might have happen to her husband, they noticed that the wife was pretty exact on where she thought her husband might be. She told them that she and her husband had a very bad fight and her husband left the house about eight hours earlier and he had been drinking. She then made a statement to the investigators that she hoped that her husband hadn’t had a bad accident. About that time the investigators got a call from the dispatcher that there had been a bad wreck where a car had gone over a cliff and it was engulfed in flames.

The couple’s plans were going very good until at the autopsy, when the pathologist started to examine the charred remains of the human body, she noticed that the body was a female body and not a male body as suspected. That’s when the story began to unravel. Would the Arson Analysts be able to identify the presence of the accelerant used to set the fire even though the car was torched? Since gasoline was present and could have started the fire, could they determine the difference be kerosene and gasoline?

This audio will provide the answers to these questions. You will also learn what accelerants are and the ones that are commonly used to set arson fires. This audio will explain the differences between combustibles and flammables and what natural factors help to support the fire’s progression. Two actual criminal cases will be discussed to show how the physical evidence needed for the arson analysis is legally collected and scientifically analyzed with unique instruments.

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