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First Posted: Apr 29, 2021 08:43 PM EDT Photo : David McNew/Getty Images A California wildfire in 2020 that ravaged Northern California was intentionally set, according to officials. Officials believed that the California wildfire was started to cover up a murder. The fire additionally killed two people. Solano County sheriff's office and Vacaville police said that the burned body of Priscilla Castro was found near a dam in Solano County, according to an NBC News report. Meanwhile, two more people were found dead from the same fire in their homes. Douglas Mai, 82, and Leon "James" Bone, 64 ...

5 hrs ago The suspect is accused of starting the Markley Fire in Vacaville last August that merged with fires in five other counties, including Napa, to become the LNU Lightning Complex. 

Josef Federman Associated Press VACAVILLE, Calif. — A man charged with killing a woman in Northern California was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of setting a fire to cover up the crime that spread and killed two other people, authorities said. Victor Serriteno, 29, of Vacaville was booked after an eight-month-long criminal investigation, the Solano County Sheriff’s Office said. County District Attorney Krishna Abrams said he will be charged with additional counts of murder and arson and was scheduled to be arraigned Friday. Serriteno was already jailed without bail after being arrested l...

'This should have never happened' | Fire survivors learn their homes were lost due to suspected arson 8 months later Lena Howland © Provided by KXTV-TV Sacramento The Markley Fire, part of the LNU Lightning Complex Fire last August is now being investigated as arson.  The Solano County Sheriff’s Office believes 29-year-old Victor Serriteno out of Vacaville started the fire while trying to cover up the death of 32-year-old Priscilla Castro of Vallejo. Serriteno was already charged in her death shortly after her body was found in mid-September, but he’s now facing arson c...

It was a first date out of a horror movie. Priscilla Castro, a 32-year-old from Vallejo, was headed to Vacaville on a Wednesday evening in August to meet Victor Serriteno, a 28-year-old she'd met through an online dating app. But instead of romance, the interlude ended in multiple deaths and hundreds of thousands of fire-scorched acres, prosecutors say. The suspect is accused of starting the Markley Fire in Vacaville last August that merged with fires in five other counties, including Napa, to become the LNU Lightning Complex.  The person behind all the crimes, authorities say, is Serriten...