Natasha Marie O’Dell pleaded guilty to three charges after officials said the arson caused $3.2 million in damages
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- Natasha Marie O’Dell set fire to Seattle Laestadian Lutheran Church, burning it “beyond repair,” on Aug. 25, 2023
- Two years later, O’Dell was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to three charges: arson, damage to religious property and obstruction of persons in the free exercise of religious beliefs
- O’Dell took an Uber to the church to set it on fire, and surveillance footage showed her pouring gasoline on the building
A Texas native will spend six years behind bars for burning down a church in an act of arson that a judge described as “devastating and dangerous.”
In August 2024, Natasha Marie O’Dell was arrested for setting fire to Seattle Laestadian Lutheran Church — a church in Maltby, a suburb of Seattle — 12 months earlier.
On Thursday, Sept. 4, about two years after the devastating blaze, O’Dell, 38, was sentenced to six years in prison for three federal felonies, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington…