Ross Compton woke up one morning to find his house on fire. The Ohio man tossed a large load of possessions outside, then climbed out of his bedroom window as the flames engulfed his home.

Or so he said.

Creative investigators subpoenaed data from his pacemaker. Someone in Compton's condition couldn't possibly have clambered around the way he claimed, the downloaded data allegedly shows. Prosecutors say he torched the house for the insurance money.

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