Turned the gas on thinking it would only destroy the one house.
Someone who would do that probably wouldn't much care about collateral damage.
Turned the gas on thinking it would only destroy the one house.
I think people here locally are thinking that scenario but few have dared to speculate about it. For sale by owner and the owner was a nurse with a live-in boyfriend (according to local news). They were out of town when this occurred.
Just a guess, but sounds like the owner couldn’t sell the house so wanted to collect insurance.
Turned the gas on thinking it would only destroy the one house.
Owner was gone for a few days and figured it would just be a fire. The leak would need to be before the furnace and the furnace shut down (to prevent the electric pilot from igniting the gas). The gas built up until it ignited from another source on a higher floor. Just speculation, but I agree with the insurance angle