Commonwealth v. Carney

Flames burst from the Bell family barn in Duxbury on the evening of April 28, 1988. The barn was behind Bruce and Daphne Bell’s residence where they lived with their daughter, Andrea, and other family members. Daphne Bell, first to notice an orange-yellow light emanating from a window, ran into the barn where she observed two men pouring liquid onto bales of hay. She shouted, prompting both to flee. After returning to her house to sound a telephone alarm and alert her husband and daughter, she returned to the conflagration to save the animals trapped inside (a donkey and fourteen greyhounds…