Bringing The Heat (Thomas Sweatt)

Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 5:12 p.m.

b"WWBD is heating up this week! Leslie takes the reins and tells a story about America\\u2019s most prolific serial arsonist. In 2005, arson investigators arrested Thomas Sweatt, a 50 year old KFC Fry Cook, for a slew of arsons in and around the Washington, DC area. They were arresting him for only a handful of recent arsons, but he would go on to confess to 353 fires dating back almost 30 years and killing at least 4 people.\\nClick to Learn More\\nRead the book my research was based on:\\nThomas Sweat: Inside the Mind of DC's Most Notorious Arsonist by Jonathan Riffe\\nWashington City Paper: Letters From an Arsonist\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nWWBD Merch\\nBuy your WWBD swag here!\\xa0\\nJoin the Conversation"