More than thirty years after a late-night fire tore through an Essex apartment building, Baltimore County police are making a fresh push for answers in an arson that killed a mother and her 8-year-old daughter.
The blaze broke out just after midnight on May 24, 1992, in the 1400 block of Hadwick Drive, ripping through the building and killing 30-year-old Mary Lee Gericke and her daughter Victoria, investigators say. The case has stayed open ever since, and detectives are again asking anyone who knows something to come forward in hopes that a new tip finally breaks the stalemate…