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The crime of Raymond

Lee

Oyler

Presentation By Angelena Schexnider.

The Esperanza Fire

About 1 a.m. on Oct. 26, 2006 Oyler used a combination of matches and cigarettes to start a fire in Cabazon at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains.

Because it was windy, the fire spread very quickly reaching speeds of 40 mph and temperatures of 1,500 degrees.

The fire spread rapidly in moderate Santa Ana winds and flammable brush due to the fire's proximity to the Chaparral biome, charring 24,000 acres in 18 hours.

Location: Riverside County, California, USA

Date Started: October 26, 2006

Date Ended: October 29, 2006

Damage: Burned an estimated 40,200 acres, and destroyed 34 houses and 20 outbuildings, as well as damaging the pavement of State Route 243.

Death: Five firefighters by the names of Mark Loutzenhiser, Jess "Gus" McLean, Jason McKay, Pablo Cerda, and Daniel Hoover Najera.

Cost: The damage the fire caused is estimated at more than $9 million, and was the worst wildfire since 1994.

Evidence

Oyler's girlfriend reported oyler and told police that he had bragged about setting fires and had complained that they weren't big enough.

They did a search and inside his car, authorities found a myriad of evidence including: wig, latex gloves, cigarettes, black spray paint and a partially burned slingshot that was used to launch incendiary devices into the brush.

His DNA was found on two cigarette butts used in other nearby wildfires

The Riverside County Sheriff Department's Central Homicide Unit arrested Raymond Lee Oyler after the evidence was found.

Trial

Oyler was was charged with almost two dozen counts of arson and 17 counts of setting fires with an incendiary device.

The defense conceded that Oyler set 11 fires, just not the 2006 Esperanza fire that killed five firefighters.

After a week of deliberation, a Riverside jury on March 6, 2009 returned a verdict of first-degree murder against Oyler for the deaths of the five firefighters killed in the fire.

On June 5, 2009, Oyler was sentenced to death for starting the 2006 Esperanza fire.

Riverside County established a fund to help the families of the firefighters who were killed fighting the fire.

Outcome

A public memorial was held on November 5, 2006 at the San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore, CA for the five fallen firefighters.

The community donated over $1.3 Million to the Central County United Way and nearly $400,000 to the Wildland Firefighter Foundation in support of the families of the fallen firefighters.

The United States Congress and the California Legislature both passed laws to ensure the funds would go to the families without taxation of the receiving families, as well as those giving donations being able to consider their donations as tax deductible.

I think this man is an idiot.

Opinion

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