Dumb Killer Denies Video Evidence Of Her, Thinks Cops Believe Her - Part ONE

In the early morning hours of a late October day in Tacoma, Washington, detectives sat down with a woman named Sarah to talk about a string of arsons that had been terrorizing the city. She had been picked up at her ex-boyfriend’s parents’ house, where she said she was cleaning out their garage. Her boyfriend had died of a heart attack months earlier, and she was about to be evicted from the home they had shared. She was cooperative at first, signing a waiver and answering questions. But within minutes, the detectives began laying out evidence that placed her at multiple fire scenes—and she started to unravel.

The Interrogation and the Alibi

Detective Conklin opened the conversation by making it clear he already knew the answers to his questions. “A lot of times before we'll ask you questions, we already know the answers to it,” he told Sarah. He asked where she had been on the night of October 25 into the early morning of October 26. Sarah gave a detailed timeline: she had been at her deceased boyfriend’s parents’ house until around 9 or 10 p.m., then went to a friend named Dean Tompkins’ house on Sixth Avenue for sex, stayed most of the night, left around 4 a.m. to meet another friend named Shy Lefty, and was home by about 5 a.m. She insisted she had done nothing wrong.