The Kutis family is offering an extra $10,000 reward to try to find whoever intentionally set one of the family’s funeral homes on fire two weeks ago.
Police said someone threw two “fire-starting devices” onto the roof of the Kutis Funeral Home at 5255 Lemay Ferry Road in Oakville in the early morning hours of March 22.
A passing police officer saw the blaze and alerted the Mehlville Fire Protection District, which put out the fire. No one was injured, and a worker who was sleeping in the funeral home overnight managed to get out unharmed.
The reward is being offered through CrimeStoppers, which offers rewards for solving crimes that can be given out even if the tipster remains anonymous. The group is offering a $1,000 reward if a felony arrest is made.
CrimeStoppers is asking anyone that was in the area of the funeral home between 4 and 5 a.m. the morning of March 22 to give the organization a call.
Anyone can anonymously call in a tip to CrimeStoppers through the CrimeStoppers hotline at 1-866-371-TIPS (8477).
The group says it has no caller ID, no voicemail and not way to trace an IP address.
Tips can also be sent in through the website stlrcs.org or the app P3 Tips, and those are also eligible for the CrimeStoppers reward.
