A hefty insurance payout is a common motive for arson, as claims investigators well know. But sometimes other factors are at play. In fact, a serious compulsion may have led to a suspicious fire at a Florida gas station on Jan. 26.
That day, a local fire department responded to a commercial structure fire at Gate Fuel in Lake Wales, Florida. The Florida Division of the State Fire Marshal's Bureau of Fire and Arson Investigations joined the case to determine the cause and origin of the blaze.
Their work quickly confirmed the fire was started in a trash can inside the men's bathroom. Later, surveillance video helped authorities identify the potential arsonist as David Glenn Giles.
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