About the Shadow (spoilers)

[Sessika]

I never thought the arsonist actually set anyone on fire. I remember a flashback, I think it was in the prison, where he was wailing about it being ridiculous for someone to go back into a burning building. It seemed to me that he only set a house or such alight and someone who ran back in to save something/someone then perished. So though he may have ultimately caused the death, it seems Alexander would certainly be lying about just how involved the man was; changing his crime from arson/property damage to "he set a man on fire". There's still a crime but the severity is completely different.
Or at least that's how I interpreted it at the time. It has been a while.