Daily Casefile · Verdict

The Burning Ledger

≈ 9 min

On the night of March 14, 2024, a fire broke out in the third-floor records room at Harwick & Associates Insurance, destroying paper ledgers covering fiscal years 2021–2023. The prosecution contends that Raymond Voss, facing an imminent internal audit scheduled for March 18, set the blaze deliberately to hide a multi-year embezzlement scheme. Voss claims he was at a charity dinner across town all evening and had nothing to do with the fire. The question before you is whether the evidence and witness testimony prove beyond reasonable doubt that Voss intentionally set the fire, or whether the prosecution's case collapses under scrutiny.