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Watching young children pedaling their bikes through the sparkling new subdivision of Island Estates, you'd never guess that four of these suburban dream homes were torched by arsonists in the predawn chill on December 30. Nor can you tell which cheery white house on Casey Lane had threatening graffiti sprayed across its exterior in red paint. “`Burn the Rich,' or something like that,” recalls a neighbor (who, like everyone else in the area, requested anonymity). “Everybody was really very scared. My daughter is eight years old, and when we were driving by she actually saw the scrawl.” Full Story