“Bet ya can’t just burn one?”

Three former college students were charged with a string of church fires. Matthew Cloyd, 21, and Benjamin Moseley, 20, were sentenced to eight years in a federal prison while Russell Lee DeBusk Jr., 20, was sentenced to seven on account of him not setting at many fires. In total, nine churches were set on fire. DeBusk had this to say:

A snowball effect happened as we proceeded to set four more churches on fire.

Well when you set one church on fire, you might as well set two, three, etc. According to the three, Cloyd and Moseley set four more churches on fire to get the agents off their trail. As the defendant’s family tried:

In letters of support to the judge, relatives and friends described the defendants as bright young men who were led astray by alcohol and their peers.

After one accidental church burning, being led astray would be the term. After nine, being led into hell is probably a little more fitting.  God wasn’t available for comment.

I burn when I walk into: churches