GRACE CHAPEL, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina fire marshal says an arson suspect is charged with intentionally setting multiple fires at family homes, with six blazes reported in less than 11 years.
News outlets report 48-year-old Grecia Leann Barlowe was indicted Monday on first and second-degree arson charges, insurance fraud and two counts of attempted murder.
Fire Marshal Kevin Brown said state investigators had been looking into fires at homes Barlowe had lived in since 2007. Firefighters responded to the first one in November 2007, a second fire started in a dryer a week later and a third fire burned the house down that month. In 2012, 2018 and 2019 crews responded to additional fires at two homes that the Caldwell County Sherriff’s Department thinks were intentionally set.
Barlowe’s parents told WSOC she’s innocent.
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