Thomas Sweatt

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Thomas Anthony Sweatt is a convicted serial arsonist. He set over 350 fires in and around Washington, D.C. most of which occurred in 2003 and 2004, making him one of the most prolific serial arsonists in American history. Following his arrest in April 2005, Sweatt admitted to setting fires for more than 30 years. As of May 2023, he was serving his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg Medium in Hopewell, Virginia. Two of his fires killed two elderly women, Annie Brown in 2002 and Lou Edna Jones in 2003, while a third, set in 1985, killed a man named Roy Picott and his wife, Bessie Mae Duncan.

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