The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/15/vacaville-man-sentenced-to-73-years-for-murder-and-arson-that-contributed-to-lnu-complex-fires-in-2020/A Vacaville man who pleaded no contest to the murder of a 32-year-old woman he'd met online, and whose body he then burned near already raging wildfires in the summer of 2020, in an attempt to hide the crime, causing a separate wildfire, has just been sentenced. The summer of 2020 was dismal already before a series of mostly lighting-caused wildfires began raging simultaneously both to the north and south of San Francisco, filling the air around the Bay with smoke for weeks on end, and claiming seven lives. Two of those lives were claimed by the Markley Fire in Solano and Napa counties, one of a group of fires that came

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