Burned Alive
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Dressed like an amateaur exterminator and outfitted with a tank of fuel and a lighter, Brooklyn resident Jerome Issac set 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie aflame while she was standing in the elevator of her apartment complex. After Issac was certain Gillespie was fully engulfed by the flames, he fled down a nearby staircase before turning himself in to law enforcement the next morning. According to Issac, Gillespie was behind in payment for a number of odd jobs he had completed for her, and the immolation was a result of her refusal to cough up the cash.