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Arsonist finds crime doesn’t pay, receives 23 years to life

Murder plot doesnt result in expected pay day for fraudster.

By Dennis Jay | Updated on September 14, 2017

A head injury slowed David O’Dell mentally, though it never affected his kind and trusting nature. He lived alone in an old wooden house in upstate Wayland, N.Y., employed by his best friend, Joseph Meyers.

Little did O’Dell realize that Meyers would betray him. He torched the rickety old home, burning O’Dell alive in an insurance plot so Meyers and his wife could live the good life.

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