Reply #2: SoCal Arsonist Raymond Lee Oyler Sentenced to Death (NBC)

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Serial arsonist lit fire that killed 5 firefighters
By PAUL YOUNG
Updated 12:29 PM PDT, Fri, Jun 5, 2009

... Witnesses described seeing a man of Oyler's description or a weather-beaten Ford Taurus the defendant owned leaving the scene of a number of fires. Forensic evidence collected from cigarettes used to ignite two June 2006 fires near Banning matched Oyler's DNA, according to testimony.

On the morning of the Esperanza blaze, a trucker recalled chatting with Oyler at a Cabazon gas station where the flames were clearly visible. The witness said Oyler told him the fire was behaving "just how I thought it would."

Oyler denied setting any of the fires. He told a sheriff's investigator that on the night of the Esperanza blaze, he split his time gambling at an Indian casino near Cabazon and taking care of his then-infant daughter at the family's Beaumont apartment ...

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Raymond-Lee-Oyl...