The police reports.
Police reports, huh? I’ll look at them but from experience, I don’t have much faith in police reports/homicide reports/arson reports/fire reports being accurate. My husband fought an 8 year battle with insurance companies and the L. A. County Sheriff’s Office after his mother died in a fire in her home in the Antelope Valley, CA in 1986. The incident reports relative to that fire and death were relevant to the insurance investigations and I can attest to the many errors found in those reports. I spent nearly as much time at our kitchen table pouring over the reports and outlining each and every one and going over them with a private investigator and later delivering a package 6” thick of each report I tore into and the inconsistencies to the Sheriff’s office and applicable departments. Nearly 30 years later, the original package takes up room in my closet.
Out of all the agencies involved, no two had the same “time of day” for the first report of the fire. The homicide detective (still remember her name) stated that she received the call BEFORE the time stated for the fire. We were told by those at the scene later that day that she showed up in the middle of the Mojave Desert in high heels to investigate a homicide. Empty paint thinner cans were strewn under my mother in law’s bedroom window. The fact was called to the attention of officials at the scene by neighbors who knew that they were always full yet arson investigators counted them as unimportant. My mother in law’s walker which she depended on was found on the opposite side of the house from her bedroom. She couldn’t have gone 2 feet without it yet her body was found on the bedsprings in her bedroom.
It didn’t take too many of those before we decided we were dealing with a bunch of incompetent fools. Have to say we never knew who or what to believe.
So I will read what you are saying is THE police report but from our experience I can’t say I’ll take it as gospel as some here seem to be doing. A word of caution for anyone unfortunate enough to be faced with something like this - question everything!