A string of rural Ohio church fires has left both parishioners and investigators with many questions and few answers.
“We haven’t had…a graffiti situation, we haven’t had anything left at the scene that would say that there’s hatred toward the Church, or hatred towards God. We don’t have any of those factors,” said Josh Hobbs, Chief of the Ohio Fire Marshal’s Fire and Explosion Investigation Bureau.
Hobbs tells CBN News they are now confident these are all acts of arson and were likely committed by the same person or group of people.
“So a couple of these churches, perhaps, were unoccupied at the time of the fire and had no electric service…so we knew there was a human act involved. And then when you have other fires in that area, you know, you start putting two and two together…you have a pattern,” Hobbs explained.
The first fire happened at Kokeen Enterprise Baptist in April of 2022. Then nothing for two years, until May, July, and August of this year, when three more churches were set on fire, all in close proximity to the first.
“The timing and geography of these fires, the type of churches, all those things, they’re all very
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