Raymond Lee Oyler, the Beaumont mechanic convicted of setting the 2006 Esperanza fire that killed five firefighters, was sentenced to death Friday by a judge who said the serial arsonist had set ...

RIVERSIDE – More than three years after the Esperanza Fire that killed five firefighters was set, convicted arsonist and murderer Raymond Lee Oyler was sentenced to death Friday. Wearing wrist ...

They say Raymond Lee Oyler set the Esperanza Fire, and a string of other fires earlier in 2006. He could be sentenced to death. KPCC's Steven Cuevas was in the courtroom for the verdicts.

Raymond Lee Oyler, who was given the death penalty for setting the 2006 Esperanza fire near Cabazon that killed five U.S. Forest Service firefighters, was not the “actual killer,” as defined ...

The “Esperanza Fire” set by Oyler just after 1 a.m. on Oct. 26, 2006, near the intersection of Esperanza Avenue and Almond Way amid a Santa Ana windstorm decimated the crew of U.S. Forest ...

Raymond Lee Oyler, sentenced to death for starting a 2006 Southern California blaze that killed five firefighters, didn’t shoot or stab his victims, or kill them personally with his bare hands ...

Raymond Lee Oyler is led into a Riverside courtroom in 2006 during his murder and arson trial. ... Clough said he believes he can show that Oyler did not set the Esperanza fire.

Raymond Lee Oyler, a 38-year-old serial arsonist who lit a brush fire that killed five firefighters as they fought to prevent flames from reaching a home, is sentenced to death.

Raymond Lee Oyler, who was given the death penalty for setting the 2006 Esperanza fire near Cabazon that killed five U.S. Forest Service firefighters, was not the “actual killer,” as defined ...