Gangrey
Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Eddie Houston's Bad Day

Sometimes you just want to read about a dude gone nuts. Here's John Doherty: There are two parts of Eddie Houston's story police think they believe.

Number one: Police think Houston's telling the truth when he says he set the fire at 222 Broadway that left 11 people homeless Sunday night.

And two: They believe he smoked a good deal of crack before lighting the fire and jumping out a third-story window — just like Houston says he did.

All the other stuff Houston claims — that he was being held prisoner, that a mysterious device on his phone intercepted his calls to 911, and that someone was shooting at him — well, not so much.

Police found Houston, 42, standing in a doorway wearing a bloody…

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