Richard Gaddy

Pyromaniac convicted of the New Amsterdam Hotel fire

San Francisco, USA

About Richard

Richard was a man who was wrongly convicted for starting the fires that killed 22 people in San Francisco's New Amsterdam Hotel. Despite his protests of innocence, he was sentenced to death and spent the rest of his life behind bars. His case remains one of the most infamous in American true crime history.

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March 28, 1944

True Crime Historian•Mar 28, 2026•9:39•guest