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Hartford circus fire - Wikipedia
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The Hartford circus fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States.[1] The fire occurred during an afternoon performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that was attended by 6,000 to 8,000 people. The fire killed 167 people[2] and more than 700 were injured.... Several years later, while being investigated on other arson charges, Robert Dale Segee (1929–1997), who was an adolescent at the time, ...
Death(s): 167–169
Non-fatal injuries: 700+
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Date: July 6, 1944
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Robert Dale Segee | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
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Characteristics: Arsonist - Confesses to setting Circus fire ... Robert Dale Segee grew up in New Hampshire and Maine, a nervous boy taunted by siblings and schoolmates and ...
he year before the Hartford circus fire, school records show, Segee flunked all his sixth-grade subjects. His IQ that year was judged to be 78.
Segee joined the circus on June 30, 1944, in Portland. On that day a minor fire on the circus tent ropes was extinguished without damage or injury. The circus went on to Providence, R.I., where a tent flap mysteriously caught fire. That fire, too, was extinguished without loss. What caused those fires was never determined. Segee confessed to setting both of them in 1950.
The next stop for the circus was Hartford.
Segee told police and psychiatrists who questioned him in Ohio in June, 1950, that he often set a fire after a frustrating sexual encounter, and that he "wanted to burn out a lot of bad memories."
Although he almost always could recall striking the match, Segee said, he often "blacked out" afterward. He would be awakened by a nightmare "red man" with fangs, claws, fiery-red chest hair and flames coming out of the top of his head. The vision is a classic one for a chronic fire-setter, experts say.
Segee told Ohio authorities he had met and had "unsatisfactory" relations with a girl near the Hartford circus grounds just before the fire. He recalled, in his confession of June 26, 1950, that he returned to the circus grounds just after the 2 p.m. performance began. Fire engulfed the tent about 2:20 p.m.
"I was still nervous and upset, and as far as I know, I thought I laid down and went to sleep and then there was the strike of the match again, and then the red man came," Segee recalled.
In 1950, a Circleville, Ohio, man named Robert D. Segee claimed he was responsible for setting the Hartford Circus Fire. He said he had a nightmare in which an Indian riding on a "flaming horse" told him to set fires.
He further claimed that after this nightmare his mind went blank, and that he did not come out of this state until the circus fire had already been set. It was said Segee fit the description of a serial arsonist right out of a psychiatrist's textbook.
Segee also knew intimate details of the incident, which some believed only the real arsonist could have known. For instance, it was never made public that the circus had two smaller fires of undetermined origin prior to the tragedy. Segee admitted setting both of them as well. These statements, Segee added, were in response to a later dream he'd had of a woman standing in flames urging him to confess.
In November 1950, Segee was convicted in Ohio of unrelated arson charges and sentenced to more than 40 years of prison time. However, Hartford investigators raised doubts over this man's confession, as he had a history of mental illness, and it could not be proven he was anywhere within the state of Connecticut when the fire occurred.
Hartford Circus Fire: A 67-Year-Old Mystery | HuffPost
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/hartford-circus-fire_n_1117392.html
Nov 29, 2011 - Segee admitted to setting the Ringling Bros. circus fire in Hartford and confessed ...Arson, however, was just one aspect of his alleged crimes.
Cause and Origin Study - The Hartford Circus Fire ~ July 6, 1944
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Jul 1, 2015 - An admitted arsonist, Robert Segee, somewhat confessed in 1950 to deliberately starting the circus fire, though he soon recanted his ...
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