Information from WYSH Radio in Clinton
Anderson County investigators are probing the cause of a suspicious Monday night fire that destroyed the house of a man currently serving time in prison on child abuse charges.
The fire at the home on Half Moon Road was reported at around 8 p.m. Monday and extinguished by the Marlow Volunteer Fire Department, which told Anderson County Sheriff’s Department deputies that the house was a total loss.
The house belongs to Daniel Ray Copeland, who pleaded guilty in 2011 to charges that he burned a four-year-old boy on his feet, ankles, and neck with a cigarette.
Copeland is currently serving time in the Tennessee Department of Corrections, and his mother has been watching his house. She told deputies that she had checked the house earlier in the day and that nothing appeared to be out of place.
The house did not have electricity running to it, and the case has been turned over to detectives for follow-up.
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