Danielle Sink
Appearances
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
We had takeout from this wonderful little place called Chino Bandito.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
Mm-hmm. Chino Bandito Tiki Audi. Ha ha.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
It's delicious, but we always remember just the meal we had the night of the fire.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
And Jamaican, too, is a little hodgepodge.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
We lived in a house that had gotten a little too small for our family, but we absolutely loved the neighborhood. So we bought some empty land a couple blocks away and spent a few years designing a house and saving up money to be able to build our dream house and then started building it in 1999.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
I can walk out my front door and I can get onto the mountain and have a view across all the city and imagine all the people's lives going on in the twinkling lights you see.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
It was, I think, a symbol of success. I was successful in my job. My husband was successful in his. We were building this big house that was going to be something we were really proud of. And we were excited to raise our children in it.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
The story about the fires was pretty much everywhere. Everyone at work was talking about it, and people would be saying, what happened? There was another fire. There was a lot of fear because these were big fires going up with huge amounts of flame. Houses nearby them were almost set on fire, and everyone was really concerned that someone was going to be injured or killed.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
Burn injuries are just kind of a horrifying thing, and so people who have very serious burns spend years getting multiple surgeries to recover from. It's just foolish and dangerous and cruel to put somebody through that.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
Did we need extra insurance? Did we need to hire security? Did we need dogs to guard our properties?
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
Protecting the environment is a very good thought, but going about it in a way that is damaging, it doesn't help the cause and it doesn't help the earth. I just thought they were being complete idiots.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
The kids wanted to make sure that Santa knew how to come to the new house in addition to the old house. They were worried that, you know, if we moved, there might be a problem there.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
The boys are having fun, and we're talking, and then suddenly my husband's like, there's helicopters. There were multiple helicopters that you could hear flying over.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
The entire sky over the mountain was glowing. It was nighttime and you could see helicopters and flashing lights from fire trucks.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
There was a line of cars going all through the neighborhood.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
He looked at me and said, our house is burning down. The fire and the glow were so big that we knew that the house was gone. There's no way the firefighters could have saved it.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
You can see the flames going towards Tom's house from the wind, and I was very fearful that his house was going to burn, and if that burned, then the mountain would go up.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
The mountain looked pristine, and my lot was just a burned-out black apocalypse in the middle of this beautiful neighborhood.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
Everything else was charred and black and on the ground.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
And said, bam, this is yours. And he held out his hand and there was a little ceramic Santa Claus. He found it in the rubble, pulled it out of the rubble and gave it to me. Just the night before it had been bright red with rosy cheeks. And now he had baked in the fire back to just a plain white ceramic fireplace.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
Santa survived. Santa's still going to come.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
The Arsonist Next Door | 2: Smoke and Mirrors
There was nothing. There was nothing at all.