😎🤘 You can now WATCH MrBallen Podcast videos the same day they drop on all podcast platforms on my main channel 👉 ⁨ @MrBallen In 1984, a 19 year old hardware store employee named Jim, was walking from one end of the store to the other, when he noticed something odd in one of the aisles. He stared at it for a second, not really sure what to make of it, before turning around and walking back where he came from, to start telling staff and customers to evacuate. Little did Jim know, in a matter of seconds, that building was going to turn into a living hell. For 100s more stories like this one, check out our main YouTube channel just called @MrBallen -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallen If you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @MrBallen . . . . Note about content: We do not do any original reporting. The stories we tell are based on events that we research and describe using existing source material. While we make every effort to use the best quality sources we can access within our production deadlines, and while we make every effort to verify facts through multiple sources, we do make occasional mistakes, and we cannot verify the accuracy of the source material we use. Please note that creative liberties have been taken in the creation and presentation of the material on which we have based this podcast. HIGH QUALITY: Official records (including court records, inmate records, obituaries, police reports) United States of America, Plaintiff-appellant, v. John Leonard Orr (1992) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/977/593/304654/ United States of America, Plaintiff-appellant, v. John Leonard Orr (1994) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/29/636/480471/ BOOKS Wambaugh, Joseph. Fire Lover. New York: Harper Collins, 2002. MAGAZINES NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON WEB Firefighters searched the rubble of a gutted hardware store (1984) https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/10/11/Firefighters-searched-the-rubble-of-a-gutted-hardware-store/3539466315200/ Ex-fire investigator gets life term in fatal arson (1998) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-18-me-23939-story.html SUBSCRIPTION NEWSPAPER ARTICLES 10/12/84- 4 bodies are found in store ashes https://www.newspapers.com/image/401147911/?terms=jim%20obdam&match=1 10/13/84- Four victims of Pasadena store fire identified https://www.newspapers.com/image/401153770/?terms=%22cetina%22&match=1 10/13/84- South Pasadena fire victims identified https://www.newspapers.com/image/119446404/?terms=%22cetina%22&match=1 10/17/84- Ole’s patron’s didn’t recognize alarms in city’s worst catastrophe https://www.newspapers.com/image/607451249/ (page 1) https://www.newspapers.com/image/607451275/?terms=jim%20obdam&match=1 (continued) 5/7/98- Trial begins for ex-Glendale firefighter accused of 4 deaths in South Pasadena https://www.newspapers.com/image/160402288/?terms=john%20orr&match=1 7/1/98= Prosecutor pushes for execution in Orr penalty phase https://www.newspapers.com/image/159084669/?terms=john%20orr&match=1 OBITUARIES AND DEATH RECORDS Ada Deal & Matthew Troidl https://www.newspapers.com/image/401537010/?terms=ada%20deal&match=1 Carolyn Furiani Kraus https://www.sphsaa.org/class_profile.cfm?member_id=1574426 DOCUMENTARIES Season 9, episode 21- Forensic Files (Points of Origin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMhjMIJYJeM Hunt for the serial arsonist, John Orr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsKdWiQUUTg INTERNET ARTICLES My firefighter father John Orr got sexual thrills from his murderous arson https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/john-orr-arsonist-father-firefighter-murderer-family-lori-orr-kovach Murderpedia: https://murderpedia.org/male.O/o/orr-john-leonard.htm