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Issa was soon suspected of doing something worse: burning down the factory. The initial notion that an electrical socket had caused the fire was challenged. The science of determining whether a fire was caused by arson can be flawed. But a fire-analysis report commissioned by the St. Paul insurance company, and dated October 19, 1982, a month after the incident, concluded that the fire was incendiary. The report cited suspicious burn patterns, such as two separate major areas of origin, and it said, No accidental source of heating power was located at either of these two major areas of origin. The manner in which stacks of cardboard boxes burned was inconsistent with an accidental fire. A flammable liquid appeared to have been poured over the boxes. The blue flames seen emanating from the roof were evidence, according to the investigators, of burning carbon monoxide that is produced when an accelerant like gasoline ignites. The black smoke was also a clue. Such black smoke normally occurs in a fire only when a hydrocarbon is burning, the report said. When investigators tested burn damage from inside the factory, they found the same identical mixture of flammable hydrocarbons in four samples taken from diverse locations.
St. Paul sought out background information on Issa and his companies. Investigators interviewed family members, bank officials, and former employees. They looked into Issas court and credit records, mortgage documents, and other personal information.
Joey Adkins, the former owner of Steal Stopper, provided the main evidence against Issa. On the afternoon of September 20, 1982, in a lengthy recorded interview with an insurance investigator, he described a series of suspicious actions by Issa before the fire. Adkins, who still worked for Steal Stopper, said that Issa removed the companys Apple II computer from the building, including all hardware, all software, all the instruction books, and also the discs for accounts payable, accounts receivable, customer list, everything. According to Adkins, Issa also transferred a copy of every design used by Steal Stopper from a filing cabinet to a fireproof box. He also said that Issa put in the box some important silk screens used in the production of circuit boards. Insurance officials noted that, less than three weeks before the fire, Issa had increased his insurance from a hundred thousand dollars to four hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars. Quite frankly, Adkins told the investigator, I feel the man set the fire.
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