http://www.kfdm.com/news/fertitta-41584-fire-beaumont.html
another mitsubishi SUV death
anony Wrote:
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> I bet more people die here in mysterious car fires
> than anywhere else in the country. Just take this
> example:
>
> Police: Woman found in burning car may have been a
> suicide
>
> By Tom Jackman
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Monday, November 23, 2009 4:52 PM
>
>
>
> Fairfax County investigators think that a woman
> who was found dead inside a burning sport-utility
> vehicle Saturday night might have killed herself
> by igniting and then sitting inside the burning
> SUV, police and fire officials said Monday.
>
> The woman was identified as Verena T. Stutts, 43,
> of the 7100 block of Wayne Road in Annandale. She
> was found in the driver's seat of a Mitsubishi SUV
> after witnesses spotted the vehicle on fire about
> 8:10 p.m. in a parking lot of the Willow Oaks
> Corporate Center office complex, near Gallows Road
> and Route 50 in the Merrifield area, Fairfax
> Officer Bud Walker said.
>
> The fire was intentionally set, Fairfax fire
> spokesman Dan Schmidt said, although he declined
> to reveal details about the fire's cause. Police
> did not release the cause of death pending the
> outcome of toxicology reports, but Walker said,
> "based on her personal history as well as the
> state of the scene, the detectives do not believe
> there was foul play." Walker said there was no
> evidence that anyone else was present.
>
> Fairfax fire marshals and homicide detectives are
> investigating the case, both agencies said.