Daughter of South Dakota Fire Investigator Pleads Guilty to Arson

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- The daughter of a state fire investigator in Nebraska has admitted she started her Yankton mobile home on fire in order to collect insurance money.

Amanda Pfifer, 24, could get up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree arson.

The Fairmont, Neb., native also might have to pay back money taken in an unrelated bad check writing case.

She is to be sentenced Feb. 15. Pfifer remains in jail on $10,000 bond.

Police were tipped by a former boyfriend a few days after the November fire that Pfifer tried to make it look like an accident.

Investigators initially called the fire an accident.