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Published: Friday, March 12, 2010
In March of 2009, Raymond Lee Oyler became the first person to get the death penalty for setting a wildland fire which resulted in the deaths of firefighters. Oyler, a former auto mechanic, set the infamous Esperanza Fire on October 26, 2006, killing five US Forest Service firefighters, who died battling the wildfire. After a two month trial, Oyler was found guilty of five counts of murder and multiple counts of arson for the Esperanza Fire and 23 other wildfires and was sentenced to death, setting a significant judicial precedent. Join FDNNTV.com's Deanne Goodman as she sits down with author and expert John Maclean to learn more about the historical and judicial importance of this arson-murder trial.
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