Esperanza arsonist Raymond Lee Oyler sentenced to death [View All]

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Source: LAT

Raymond Lee Oyler, the Beaumont mechanic convicted of setting the 2006 Esperanza fire that killed five firefighters, was sentenced to death Friday by a judge who said the serial arsonist had set out to "create havoc ...

Outside the courthouse, his daughter Heather Oyler, 22, said that her father felt remorse and his laughing was mere comic relief.

"It has been very emotional," she said. "It touched me to hear that <the firefighters' families> think about us. We feel just as bad for them as they do for us. If Ray could talk to them, I think he would tell them he didn't do it. He feels bad for them."

She said she still believes her father is innocent ...

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