‘Going to kill everybody’: Kentucky woman allegedly set apartment on fire during eviction

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WKRC) – A Kentucky woman said she was “going to kill everybody” in her apartment complex after lighting the building on fire because she was facing eviction.

According to a criminal complaint affidavit and arrest citation obtained by WAVE and WDRB respectively, authorities responded to an apartment complex at around 3 a.m. on March 14 regarding a fire.

Investigators reportedly learned that one of the building’s residents, 68-year-old Elizabeth Radmacher, was heard by other residents saying, “I’m going to kill everybody” while standing outside and watching the blaze.

Radmacher later claimed that someone else made her set the apartment building on fire. The affidavit said she began the fire in her bedroom and left the unit without telling anyone. The other eight tenants in the building escaped when another resident began knocking on doors to alert people of the blaze, according to WLKY.

The fire resulted in one person going to the hospital with unknown injuries, per WDRB.

The arrest citation allegedly said that Radmacher was facing eviction at the time she set the fire.

Radmacher was arrested and charged with arson, wanton endangerment, and criminal mischief.