- Tim Arson
Timothy Calkins (born December 29, 1975) better known by his ring name Tim Arson is a professional wrestler best known for his appearance in ECW as The Zombie on June 13, 2006. Largely considered a spoof of Sci-Fi Channel programming, The Zombie was quickly squashed by The Sandman with his trademark cane. He would also work the June 16, 2006 edition of Heat as Tim Arson, losing to Matt Striker. - Tre Arrow
Tre Arrow, (born Michael James Scarpitti in 1974), a Florida native, is an environmental activist and politician who gained prominence in the U.S. state of Oregon in the late 1990s. Arrow is currently imprisoned in Canada, pending extradition by the United States Government to face charges of arson and conspiracy. - Jeff Luers
Jeff "Free" Luers is an environmental activist from Los Angeles, California, currently serving a twenty-two year prison sentence for arson. Recently, on February 14, 2007, The Court of Appeals ruled that Jeff Luers' sentence will be revisited, with a possible 15 years taken off the original sentencing. In 2000 he set fire to three SUVs at Romania Chevrolet dealership in Eugene, Oregon as a protest against excessive consumption and global warming along with Craig Marshall, … - Rod Coronado
Rodney Adam Coronado is an American eco-anarchist and animal rights activist who has been convicted of arson, conspiracy and other crimes in connection with his activism but now advocates non-violent action. He is an advocate and former activist for the Animal Liberation Front and a spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front. - Josh Wolf
*Catch me on the Colbert Report this Tuesday June 12th*. - Varg Vikernes
Varg Vikernes, born Kristian Vikernes on February 11, 1973, outside of Bergen, Norway, is a black metal musician currently imprisoned for the 1993 murder of Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth of Mayhem. Formerly known by the pen name "Count Grishnackh" (a reference to an Orc chieftain in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"), during the early days of black metal in Norway, Vikernes had a one-man music project Burzum, … - Chelsea Dawn Gerlach
Chelsea Dawn Gerlach (born in 1977) is a radical environmentalist associated with the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front. She was arrested in Portland, Oregon on December 7, 2005, and on July 21, 2006, she pleaded guilty to three counts of arson. The fires were at Childer's Meat Company, Boise Cascade, and an EPD substation. She was also charged with one count of destruction of an energy facility, … - Peter Braunstein
Peter Braunstein (born 1964) is a New York City, USA-based journalist, writer, and playwright who became infamous for committing a October 31 2005 sexual assault, leading police on a multi-state manhunt until his capture and self-injury in Memphis, Tennessee on December 16 2005. Dubbed the "Halloween rapist", the "fake firefighter", "fire fiend", and other names by the media, Braunstein became an unlikely criminal mastermind and the most wanted man in New York City, … - William C. Rodgers
Bill Rodgers a.k.a. Avalon, co-proprietor of the Catalyst Infoshop in Prescott, Arizona, USA, was one of six environmental activists arrested December 7, 2005 as part of the FBI's Operation Backfire. He was charged with one count of arson for a June, 1998 fire set by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) at the National Wildlife Research Center in Olympia, Washington. He was found dead in his jail cell on December 21, 2005. - Michael Scarpitti
Michael Scarpitti (a.k.a. "Tre Arrow"), is an alleged eco-terrorist wanted by the FBI for arson attacks against various targets in the Pacific Northwest including the firebombing of a logging truck and cement trucks in 2001 and 2002. - Mike Watson
Michael Goodall Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie, known as Mike Watson, (born 1 May, 1949) is a former Scottish Labour Party politician. He has sat in three legislatures in the United Kingdom and served as Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport in the [[Scottish Executive Cabinet. He was expelled from his party on 22 September 2005 following his conviction and imprisonment for fire-raising. - Herostratus
Herostratus was a young man who set fire to the temple of Artemis at Ephesus (currently Turkey) in his quest for fame on July 21, 356 BC. That temple was built of marble and was considered the most beautiful of some thirty shrines built by the Greeks to honor her goddess of the hunt and the wild; the temple was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Far from attempting to evade responsibility for this act of arson, … - Sylvia Pankhurst
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (May 5, 1882 - September 27, 1960) was a campaigner in the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom, and a prominent left communist. She was born in Manchester, a daughter of Dr. Richard Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst, members of the Independent Labour Party and much concerned with women's rights. Her sister, Christabel, would also become an activist. - Fred Hampton Jr.
Fred Hampton, Jr. (b. 1970) is the son of Fred Hampton, Sr., a Black Panther who was killed by the Chicago Police in 1969. Hampton, Jr., was still in utero when his father was killed. He followed his father into black nationalist politics. In 1990, he became the president of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement. - Sante Kimes
Sante Kimes (born July 24 1934) is an American woman infamous for the murder of Irene Silverman, an 82-year-old New York City socialite. She also was convicted of killing David Kazdin in early 1998, a business associate of her husband, in California. Born Sante Louise Singhrs in Oklahoma City, possibly to a Dutch mother and East Indian father (she reinvented herself so often even her children were unsure of the facts), … - Vernon Dahmer
Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer (born March 10, 1908, in Forrest County, Mississippi - died January 11, 1966, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, burns suffered from an arson fire) was a civil rights leader and president of the Forrest County, Mississippi, chapter of the NAACP. - Joseph Massino
Joseph C. "Big Joey" Massino (January 10, 1943) known in the media as "The Last Don", was a Queens, New York restaurateur and former head of the Bonanno crime family. He was convicted in July 2004 of racketeering, seven murders, arson, extortion, loan sharking, illegal gambling, conspiracy, and money laundering. - Jack van Tongeren
Jack van Tongeren (legal name Peter Joseph Van Tongeren) (born 1947) has been described as a white supremacist and extreme right wing Australian activist by the media. He was the leader of the neo-Nazi Australian Nationalist Movement (ANM). He served 13 years 1 month and 6 days in prison from 1989-2002 for arson, after firebombing businesses owned by Asians in Western Australia. He was tried in absentia. "Jack" is a nickname acquired during his university days. - Bruno Koschmider
Bruno Koschmider was a german entrepreneur in Hamburg, Germany. He controlled various businesses, such as the Bambi Kino, which was a porn cinema. Allan Williams booked The Beatles (in May 1960) into Koschmider's Indra club. The Beatles first played at the Indra club - sleeping in small, dirty rooms in the Bambi Kino - and then moved (after the closure of the Indra) to the larger Kaiserkeller In October 1960, they left Koschmider's club and worked at the "Top Ten Club", … - Debora Green
Dr. Debora Green (born February 28 1951) was a former oncologist living in Prairie Village, Kansas, married to Michael Farrar, a cardiologist. After previously trying to poison Michael using ricin, on October 24 1995 she murdered two of her children by setting fire to the family house at 7517 Canterbury Court. She pleaded no contest before the trial and was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 40 years before eligibility for parole. - Carmine Agnello
Carmine Agnello (b. 1960) is a New York mobster from the Gambino crime family who became rich from scrap metal companies. - Hone Harawira
Hone Pani Tamati Waka Nene Harawira is a New Zealand politician. He was elected to Parliament for the Māori Electorate of Te Tai Tokerau in the 2005 general elections as the Māori Party candidate. Harawira is a veteran activist and protestor, having participated in a large number of demonstrations supporting what he sees as Māori rights. His first major role came in the protests surrounding the 1981 Springbok Tour, … - Kenny Kimes
Kenny Kimes (born March 31, 1975) is an American con artist serving a life sentence for murder. Born Kennedy Kimes, Jr., the son of an alcoholic motel tycoon and Sante Kimes, who from childhood had a long history of shoplifting, petty theft, forgery, embezzlement, arson, and insurance fraud, Kimes was groomed for a life of crime by his mother when her son from an earlier marriage, Kent Walker, refused to continue to cooperate with her illegal schemes. - Mark Goldstraw
Mark Goldstraw (b. 1975) is an English murderer who was convicted on 1 November 2006 of murdering his ex-girlfriend Samantha Carter (aged 16), as well as her sister Patricia (aged 10), brother Marcus (aged 7) and 44-year-old step-father Roddy Hine by setting fire to their house in Cheddleton, Staffordshire in March 2006. At Goldstraw's trial, it was revealed that he had already been convicted of manslaughter in 2001 after battering his ex-girlfriend to death with a mallet. - Libero Grassi
Libero Grassi (Catania, July 19, 1924 - Palermo, August 29, 1991) was a businessman from Palermo, Sicily, who was killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their demands for extortion, known as "pizzo" in Sicilian. He ran a small store in Palermo and was married with a son and daughter. Like many shopkeepers in the city, he was soon subjected to demands to pay "pizzo" or face the consequences. - Julio González
Julio González is a Cuban-born warehouse worker and arsonist responsible for the Happy Land Fire that killed 87 people in the Bronx, New York City, on March 25, 1990. It is one of the largest mass murders in United States history. - Allan Legere
Allan Legere (1948 -) is a Canadian serial killer, also known as the Monster of the Miramichi (not "of Miramichi": at the time this nickname was first applied to him, the City of Miramichi proper did not exist, and so it referred to the region along the Miramichi River). He escaped custody in April of 1989 (while serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of a shopkeeper, John Glendenning) and remained free for seven months. - Peter Kürten
Peter Kürten May 26, 1883-July 2, 1931 was a German serial killer dubbed The Vampire of Düsseldorf by the contemporary media. He committed a series of sex crimes, assaults and murders against adults and children, most notoriously from February to November 1929 in Düsseldorf. - Howard Allen
Howard Arthur Allen (b. February 10, 1949) is a serial killer from Indianapolis, Indiana. He is believed to be responsible for the deaths of three elderly people, as well as assault, burglary, and arson. * August 1974: Beat to death Opal Cooper, age 85, in her home during a robbery. Sentenced to 2-21 years for manslaughter and paroled in January 1985. * May 18, 1987: Assaulted a 73-year-old woman in her home, who survived. * May 20, 1987: Assaulted Laverne Hale, age 87, … - Frank Stagg
Frank Stagg (Irish name: Proinsias Stagg was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker from County Mayo, Ireland who died in 1976 in Wakefield Prison, Yorkshire, England after 62 days on hunger strike. - Raymond Mason
Raymond Mason (b. 1922 in Birmingham, England) is a sculptor. He trained at the Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts under William Bloye, the Royal College of Art (for one term), and Slade School of Art. He has lived and worked in Paris since 1946. He is known for his sculptures of tightly packed people made from clay, with works in Montreal; the Tuileries, Paris; Georgetown, Washington, D.C.; and Madison Avenue, New York. - Fleur Lombard
Fleur Lombard QGM (1974 - 1996) was the first female firefighter to die on duty in peace time Britain. On 4 February 1996, when she was 21 years old, she was fighting a supermarket fire in Staple Hill, near Bristol, when she and her partner, Robert Seaman, were caught in a flashover. She was killed as a direct result of the intense heat and her body was found just a few yards from the exit. She was posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. - Herbert Baum
Herbert Baum was a German-Jewish resistance leader against National Socialism. Baum and family moved to Berlin when he was young and after he graduated secondary school there, he took on an apprenticeship as an electrician, which he carried on with as a profession. By 1926, he was an active member of different left wing and Jewish youth organizations, and from 1931, he became a member of the communist youth association of Germany (KJVD). - Amiot Métayer
Amiot Métayer was a gang leader in Haïti. His gang, based in the northern city of Gonaïves, was called the "Cannibal Army". Although he had once supported Haïtian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the government arrested him for arson on May 21, 2002. He was, however, freed from jail by members of his gang in August 2002 and proceeded to lead anti-government riots. He was found murdered in September 2003, and his supporters accused Aristide of having ordered his death. - Gregory Scott Johnson
Gregory Scott Johnson (February 18, 1965 - May 25, 2005 at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana) was legally executed for beating and stomping 82 year-old Ruby Hutslar to death in 1985. He set her house on fire in an attempt to conceal his crime. Johnson sought a reprieve, asserting that he wanted to donate a portion of his liver to his ailing sister, Deborah Otis. She was suffering from non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver and was in need of a transplant. - A. Bruce Bielaski
Alexander Bruce Bielaski (1884-February, 1964) was an American lawyer and director of the Bureau of Investigation (now the Federal Bureau of Investigation). Bielaski was born in Montgomery County, Maryland. He received a law degree from The George Washington University Law School in 1904 and joined the Department of Justice that same year. Like his predecessor Stanley Finch, Bielaski worked his way up through the Justice Department. - Phil Gawne
Philip (Phil) Gawne is the Member of the House of Keys for Rushen, a constituency in the Isle of Man. He is also the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and therefore a member of the Council of Ministers. Phil Gawne lives in the village of Cregneash in the south of the Isle of Man. He is a graduate of the University of Liverpool. He is also a fluent speaker of Manx, the ancient language of the Isle of Man. - George Klippert
Everett George Klippert (1926 - 1996) was the last person in Canada to be arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for homosexuality before its legalization in 1969; the reforms which led to Canadian legalization of homosexuality were a direct result of the Klippert case. Klippert, a mechanic in the Northwest Territories, was first investigated by police in connection with an arson in 1965. Although he was not found to have had any connection with the fire, … - David Ruggles
David Ruggles (1810 - December 16, 1849) was an anti-slavery activist who was active in the New York Committee of Vigilance and the Underground Railroad. He claimed to have led over six hundred people, including friend and fellow abolitionist Frederick Douglass, to freedom in the North. Ruggles was born in Norwich, Connecticut. At the age of sixteen, he moved to New York City where he worked as a mariner before opening a grocery store. - Frank Vickerman
Frank Vickerman was a man in the early 1800's who lived in West Yorkshire. He owned a wool processing factory at Taylor Hill, which was attacked by the Luddites on March 15, 1812. The factory was destroyed and arson was attempted. Frank Vickerman was targeted by this anti-technological growth organization partly because the machines in his factory were taking the jobs of actual people, but also, Frank Vickerman had been previously involved in an Anti-Luddite committee.
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