East Texas, affectionately referred to by locals as \u201cthe Buckle of the Bible Belt,\u201d is home to over 1,400 churches. Life is centered around these congregations, which provide a backbone for communities to gather, worship, and practice fellowship with one another.<\/p>\n
On New Year\u2019s Day 2010, Little Hope Baptist Church, on the outskirts of Canton, Texas, burned to the ground. Officials concluded the fire was caused by an electrical problem in the century-old church\u2019s wiring. But when nine more churches went up in flames over the span of just a few weeks, the rural communities of East Texas feared for the worst.<\/p>\n
With the clues beginning to point towards arson, hundreds of local law enforcement, Texas Rangers, and investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives scoured the area in what became the largest criminal investigation in East Texas history. No stone is left unturned, and even Satan himself is considered a suspect in this investigation of a community terrorized from the inside out.<\/p>\n
Unfolding as a tense real-life whodunit, Little Hope Was Arson<\/i><\/b> details the manhunt for the mysterious arsonist intent on dismantling the faith of these small towns with every burned church, as the truth becomes as damaging as the fires themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A plague of arson in East Texas that saw 10 churches burn to the ground in 2010 ignited the largest criminal investigation in the area’s history, involving local law enforcement, Texas Rangers, and the ATF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"topic":[1225],"class_list":["post-318","films","type-films","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-politics-and-government"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n