Uncovering the Mystery: The Van, The Arson Investigator, and The Missing Person

I want to show you the van. So these are the six color pictures I was able to get and to my knowledge are the only pictures that remain out of possibly over 100 that were shot. I found the three or four page report from Brian Spatoski, the arson investigator. So I decided to give him a visit. And he looked at me and he said, I’ve been waiting 10 years for someone to come and ask questions about this. My name is Brian Spetalski. I’ve been a fire investigator for almost 30 years. In 2002, I was a fire investigator for Modesto City Fire Department. December 25th, the fire came in for a vehicle fire in an alleyway. As I did my walk around, I noticed there was a mattress in the back of the van that was mostly consumed by the fire. And they put this round gas can over the mattress. I’m sure thinking that the gas can would destroy the mattress. But the metal gas can actually protected this foot and a half circle of mattress. It was a little bit discolored, but it wasn’t burned at all. Kind of a grayish off white fabric with rust colored stains in it. It looked like blood to me. And I cut away a piece of that fabric so we could understand was this just a rust color or was this truly blood? When we cut it away and we stuck it into the container that had the Luminol in it. It went blue. There’s human blood in on that item. Between Christmas and New Years, the news started to come out about Lacey missing. When I heard that, that’s when I got on the phone and called up my detective and said, look now, you know, we’ve got this van, we’ve got a mattress in the back of it. It’s similar in description of what everybody’s saying. I think you need to take a look at that.