Will foreclosures spark an arson boom?
As homeowners get more desperate,  the insurance industry is bracing for an increase in arson.
By Jon Birger, senior writer
NEW YORK (Fortune)—Faced with foreclosure on her Russellville, Indiana home, Christina Snyder allegedly concocted the kind of plan that now has insurance executives on edge.
According to the county prosecutor,  the 31-year-old Snyder allegedly offered to pay a neighbor $5,000 to help her burn down her house and make it look like a botched rape attempt - all in order to claim $80,000 in insurance money. Snyder wanted the neighbor to bind her hands in duct tape, write "whore" on her shirt, and then help her escape once the blaze was set, the prosecutor says. The neighbor demurred, instead reporting Snyder to police.

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If bankrupcy isn’t an option, maybe a little Jewish Lightning instead, eh?

Snyder wanted the neighbor to bind her hands in duct tape, write "whore" on her shirt, and then help her escape once the blaze was set
It sounded like a fun evening of harmless debauchery up ‘til the blaze part.