A house in Southern Alabama that was the site where authorities say five people were killed by a Mississippi man has mysteriously burned down.
Sheriff's officials say they received a tip that the home in Citronelle, would be burned - and then it went up in flames Sunday morning.
Citronelle Mayor John McDonald says no one knows how the blaze started. He says it's unclear whether it was arson.
Authorities say 27-year-old Derrick Dearman of Leakesville, Mississippi is accused of killing five people in the home on Aug. 20.
Mobile County sheriff's spokeswoman Lori Myles says investigators had already finished collecting evidence of the killings at the home before it burned.