The Hartford circus fire occured on July 6, 1944 in Hartford
Connecticut and it was one of the worse fire disasters in the
United States history. The fire started during an afternoon
performance at Ringling Bros and Barnum & Baily circus that was
attended by 6,000 to 8,00 people. Some had claimed the cause to be
a careless accident. But there were some people (mostly family
members of the victims) who believed the fire was a murder crime-it
was caused by an arson. Robert Segee who was an employee said in
1950 he was seeing an Indian riding a flaming horse telling him to
set the fire. He was sentenced 40 of imprisonment. Hartford
investigators had doubts of his confession. Segee had a history of
mental illness-it can be proven he was somewhere in Connecticut
when the fire happened. In 1994 Segee denied causing the fire then
died in 1997. Many historians, investigators and family members of
the victims believed the fire to be cause by an arson-if it was
caused by an arson, that would be a big mystery.