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Later, it was discovered that Dinsdale had poured several liters of paraffin oil throughout the hasty house, and had started the fire through the mail slot. You could say that it was hastily set. Correct! You would be very, very correct in that. The light bulb moment, however, came when Sager discovered upon questioning neighbors that the Hastys were not a well-liked family.
The father, Tommy Hasty, was a career petty criminal and the eldest Hasty boy, one of the victims in the fire, 15 years old. He had also begun a life of crime. Almost worse, though, were the two youngest hasty siblings, aged 12 and 8, who were actually kind of little terrorists in the neighborhood. True agents of chaos. They'd throw rocks at old people. They'd piss through mail slots.
The father, Tommy Hasty, was a career petty criminal and the eldest Hasty boy, one of the victims in the fire, 15 years old. He had also begun a life of crime. Almost worse, though, were the two youngest hasty siblings, aged 12 and 8, who were actually kind of little terrorists in the neighborhood. True agents of chaos. They'd throw rocks at old people. They'd piss through mail slots.
The father, Tommy Hasty, was a career petty criminal and the eldest Hasty boy, one of the victims in the fire, 15 years old. He had also begun a life of crime. Almost worse, though, were the two youngest hasty siblings, aged 12 and 8, who were actually kind of little terrorists in the neighborhood. True agents of chaos. They'd throw rocks at old people. They'd piss through mail slots.
They'd shit on doorsteps. They would rob local children of their pocket money.
They'd shit on doorsteps. They would rob local children of their pocket money.
They'd shit on doorsteps. They would rob local children of their pocket money.
This is beyond larrikin. I don't know, because larrikin, that's Australian. Larrikins, to me, seem a little more, like larrikins don't throw rocks at old ladies.
This is beyond larrikin. I don't know, because larrikin, that's Australian. Larrikins, to me, seem a little more, like larrikins don't throw rocks at old ladies.
This is beyond larrikin. I don't know, because larrikin, that's Australian. Larrikins, to me, seem a little more, like larrikins don't throw rocks at old ladies.
Well, yeah, because he started to see like, oh, there's motive here. Like everyone hated the Hasty family. D.S. Sager couldn't find anyone in the neighborhood that didn't have at least like some sort of grudge against at least one member of the family. The mother had even received a threatening letter about a month before the fire written on a piece of cardboard cut from a cereal box.
Well, yeah, because he started to see like, oh, there's motive here. Like everyone hated the Hasty family. D.S. Sager couldn't find anyone in the neighborhood that didn't have at least like some sort of grudge against at least one member of the family. The mother had even received a threatening letter about a month before the fire written on a piece of cardboard cut from a cereal box.
Well, yeah, because he started to see like, oh, there's motive here. Like everyone hated the Hasty family. D.S. Sager couldn't find anyone in the neighborhood that didn't have at least like some sort of grudge against at least one member of the family. The mother had even received a threatening letter about a month before the fire written on a piece of cardboard cut from a cereal box.
But when they analyzed the handwriting in the note, it was sent by a little old lady who lived up the street.
But when they analyzed the handwriting in the note, it was sent by a little old lady who lived up the street.
But when they analyzed the handwriting in the note, it was sent by a little old lady who lived up the street.
And I know all of our Yorkshire listeners right now are just saying, yep, that's Yorkshire. It's my grandmother. This woman, like everyone else, hated the hasty family, and had shoved the letter into their mailbox herself to save the cost of a stamp.