(03-12-2018, 03:22 PM)syscrash Wrote: It is not illegal to destroy your own property. Take a house. as long as the bank does not own it you can bull doze it or do what ever you want. To burn it, the crime is not arson unless you are trying to claim the insurance. The crime would be endangering the properties next to the house. Because the trailer fire was in the forest. There could be a crime of endangering the forest because of the uncontrolled fire.
It could be considered arson, even if not claiming the insurance. That determination would need to be made by a trained professional, not Nick. Even then I think it would probably be difficult based on the fact that there was no electricity available to light the trailer. It was in a remote and hard to access location.
Marie may have rigged the trailer to take electricity, but she no doubt would have had lights that worked directly from the propane tanks when electricity was not available. If Marie kept the old Airstream fixtures in it, the fixtures would have required a match to light them, just as a match would be required to light the hot water heater and furnace. Juliette did not use accelerant and was careful enough to make sure the fire only destroyed the trailer and not the surrounding woods. She made the evidence seem more plausible that it was an accident, and not arson that destroyed the trailer.
I don't think a claim could be made on the trailer anyway. It wouldn't have been worth anything, and I think you're probably correct when you state that the registration was never transferred over to Nick's name.
The funny thing about all of this was Nick's reaction. I think he was shocked, but he certainly didn't show devastation at the loss of the trailer. For all of the hoopla over the diaries, I don't recall him referring to them all that often after the loss of the trailer.
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