Confessed and Convicted Church Burners Turn on Each Other

One of the two men who've confessed to burning nearly a dozen churches around east Texas is finally speaking up, and revealing what was going on in his mind when he and his former friend set the fires.

A dream state -- mixed with doses of a clouded reality -- is how Jason Robert Bourque described his state of mind during the two months he and Daniel George McAllister torched 10 East Texas churches in early 2010.

However, Bourque, who said he had been getting high on marijuana and taking prescribed medications including Chantix and Prozac, would learn the dreams were in fact a reality that eventually would cost him his freedom.

Bourque and McAllister each have been sentenced to multiple counts of arson and have been given 10 and five life sentences, respectively. Bourque also was given an additional 20-year sentence for an attempted arson, meaning he must serve 20 years before being eligible for parole. McAllister must serve 15 before he is eligible for release.

via Bourque Speaks: McAllister Was Full Participant.

In all, the two men burned 10 churches in three counties.  All the fires were set late at night when no one was in the churches, and no injuries were reported in any of the fires.