After meeting up with friends — where he bragged about having “solved the problem” — he returned home and froze. His house was on fire. Fire trucks everywhere, smoke, screams, flames bursting through the windows.

On his phone was a message from his wife:

“Since we bought this house together, we’ll lose it together too.”

He turned pale and ran to the firefighters, shouting that it was arson, that his wife was a criminal. The firefighters called the police, and a few minutes later a young female officer approached him.