Next door, Arsonist explores the story of Mark Warren Sands, a serial arsonist convicted of fire in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2000 and 2001.
From a partnership with Novel from Sony Music, The Podcast is hosted by reporter Sam Anderson, who enters among the reasons behind Sands' shocking crime and complex investigations.
Throughout the season, Anderson immerses in the mystery behind a group of environmental terrorists who are allegedly burning their mansions for political and environmental reasons.
While the media piled up into the ecoterrorist narrative, the real culprit was Mark Sands. A friendly neighbour and a successful marketing executive lived a perfect life for the painting until everything known about him came into flames. literally.
While detectives searched for radical activists to set fire to local homes, their investigations forced friends and neighbors to oppose each other, and in the aftermath they had great consequences that changed the world.
The series features first-time interviews with people closest to the sand, including his longtime best friend, and I have never heard of a recording from a high stakes undercover investigation.
Sam Anderson said:
“The arsonist next door explores chapters in American history when so-called “ecoterrorism” was a major priority for the FBI. But at what cost?
“What really shocked me about this incident was the real motivation of a perpetrator I had never come to, and the behavior of one man spill over to potentially life-changing outcomes for thousands of Americans.”
Arsonist Next Door is available on The Binge and all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
