Indiana man charged with arson after admitting to cutting off his genitals and setting them on fire
An investigation by police into an alleged stabbing in Fort Wayne, Indiana took an unexpected turn when it ended up being related to an arson investigation being conducted by the fire department at the same time.
It took an even more unexpected turn when a man eventually told investigators that he had cut off his penis and set it on fire.
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According to FOX 59, on May 6, the Fort Wayne Fire Department was investigating a fire at a detached garage while the police were busy responding to reports of a stabbing.
The owners of the garage said that a neighbor had woken them up and told them about the fire. They also said that a member of the family was missing. That family member was 36-year-old Christopher Peden.
While the fire department was looking into the cause of the fire, Peden was claiming to Fort Wayne Police that he was a stabbing victim.
On the way to the hospital, he told them that he had been stabbed in downtown Fort Wayne and that he had been threatened the day before.
Peden decided to come clean about the stabbing and what had caused the fire in the garage. According to court documents, he admitted he was "dishonest" and "wanted to be truthful."
I hope for their sake the investigators were sitting down. Peden told them, reports FOX 59, that he went to the garage and "harmed himself" by "cutting off his penis" with a kitchen knife.
He doused the freshly detached member in gasoline and "set it on fire on the floor of the garage just inside the door." He then walked away.
The court documents state that the investigators retrieved a red plastic gas container, four lighters and a kitchen knife. There was evidently no mention of the state of the severed penis.
You can imagine it didn’t fare well against the gasoline-fueled blaze. That's one hell of a Wednesday if you ask me. Peden was charged with arson.
