I'm hopeful that everyone here would consider burning a church down for political reasons despicable.
However, sometimes the first information we receive through the news media raises suspicions.
This case is like that, and we won't know what really happened until the investigation is complete. Or not -- arson cases are notoriously difficult to track down to the actual perpetrators. Determining that a fire was arson is pretty straightforward. Identifying who did it, and proving they did it, not so much.
We had another one of those "Huh?" cases the last two days, actually not far from our house.
A woman was run off the road and forced to stop, and then two men tried to rob her of drugs. She didn't have any drugs, so they kidnapped her 9 year old autistic son. Amber alert was issued, but the next day police found his body in a lake at a nearby golf course. Pretty straightforward, right? Not so fast.
She was "forced off the road" in a gigantic Home Depot parking lot that holds 300-500 cars and is constantly crowded with people, including dozens of casual workers sitting around waiting for someone to offer them work. But nobody saw anything, and nobody called the police. Further investigation revealed a surveillance video that showed her driving into the parking lot -- alone in the car, with no other car confronting her -- where she sat for 20 minutes before calling the police and giving them the above story.
Following a lengthy interview yesterday, she was arrested for murdering her son.