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By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post A string of fires near Polo on Tuesday classified as arson are still under investigation by the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office. One of them claimed the life of a 96-year-old woman. The body of Lorene Fickess was found in the first house fire. Caldwell County Sheriff Mitch Allen says the suspect's vehicle was spotted in front of all three house fires near Polo. "Plus, the fact when you have three fires on the same road within a four-mile distance, and there's signs of arson in at least one of the houses, it's pretty obvious that they're all connected," Allen tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post The vehicle in question spotted at the scene is a black SUV with dark tinted windows driven by a black male. Allen says his department will continue to question people in the area who had cameras at their homes or may have seen something. "A lot of times people see something or they know something, they don't know they know ....