The woman charged with arson, murder, assault and causing a catastrophe in a blaze that killed two Kansas City firefighters admitted her guilt to a fellow detainee soon after being arrested, according to testimony given Wednesday.
Thu Hong Nguyen told Misty Levron that she set a fire that killed people by using liquid in her nail salon, Levron testified Wednesday at Nguyen’s trial.
“She said she didn’t understand why it went wrong,” Levron said, recalling their conversation on Oct. 26, 2015, two weeks after the fire that killed John Mesh and Larry Leggio. “Nobody was supposed to die.”
Levron’s credibility was questioned by defense attorney Molly Hastings, who noted that Levron told her husband in a recorded jail phone call that she had a plan to use some information she had to get a charge against her out of Florida dropped.