Daily Casefile · Forensic
The Belfort Mill Arson
≈ 9 min
The Belfort Mill burned to the ground on a Tuesday night in August 1923, killing the night watchman, Henri Voss. The mill owner, Edouard Renart, filed an insurance claim the following morning, but the insurer suspects the fire was deliberately set to collect on a recently doubled policy. You are presented with six events from the night and the hours surrounding it, listed in jumbled order. Using the four forensic clues recovered from the scene, place all six events in their correct chronological sequence to determine whether arson preceded — or followed — the watchman's death.
The scene
A textile mill and surrounding village in rural northern France, 1923
The events
- Voss is struck on the back of the head and rendered unconscious
- Voss's body is found by arriving firefighters
- An accelerant is poured along the ground-floor loom aisle
- Renart doubles the mill's fire insurance policy
- The mill is set alight and the fire spreads rapidly
- Henri Voss completes his first patrol round
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