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It was written by two journalists who believed that a man named Roy McCullough started the fire on purpose after a poker game, with the goal of killing a man who had testified against him in prison.
they very squarely placed the whole thing on Roy McCullough's shoulders
— Episode: Why There Aren't So Many Hotel Fires Any...
Episode: Why There Aren't So Many Hotel Fires Anymore
It was written by two journalists who believed that a man named Roy McCullough started the fire on purpose after a poker game, with the goal of killing a man who had testified against him in prison.
they very squarely placed the whole thing on Roy McCullough's shoulders
who had allegedly seen a guy who ratted him out in prison and that he'd set the fire after he left the poker game because he was trying to kill the guy and ended up killing 119 people.
Episode: Why There Aren't So Many Hotel Fires Anymore
It was written by a pair of journalists who attributed the cause of the fire to an ex-con named Roy McCullough, who allegedly set a mattress on fire to kill someone he saw in prison, though fire experts suspected an accelerant was used instead.
they very squarely placed the whole thing on Roy McCullough's shoulders
they thought that there was an accelerant and it was in another part of the hotel, it wasn't near the mattress at all
that somebody had carelessly tossed a cigarette somewhere around the fourth floor stairwell and it had gone up