re: #66 Walter L. Newton

The defendant had tried to get the state to stop the burn, claiming it would destroy exculpatory evidence, but the state, feds, and explosives experts all were saying that the place was just too dangerous to collect and remove the explosives any other way. There were all kinds of chemicals used in bombmaking and even the robots couldn’t operate in that environment. So, the fire was the safest method of rendering the threat inert.

Scary stuff.