Police find clue at arson scene

Will a fingerprint and old-fashioned gumshoe police work help solve a spree of suspicious fires?

By GIL BRADY
Star-Tribune correspondent

Filed 5.11.07

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JACKSON -- A clue found among the wreckage from a string of arsons here could shed light on the unusual early morning blazes that kept firefighters running from one torched SUV to another until just after dawn.

The fires April 26 destroyed three SUV-type vehicles and part of a rental cabin.

"We lifted a fingerprint off a car body,” Detective Cpl. Andy Pearson of the Jackson Police Department said this week, adding that the state crime lab would analyze the print against its existing database.

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Photo captions & credits: "One of three arson scenes from April. An incinerated Dodge Ram truck and maroon sports car sit behind a charred cabin overlooking Broadway Ave. in Jackson." By Andrew Wyatt -- Star-Tribune correspondent