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>> clearly this is where the fire started. philips bedroom where his body was found. why do you think they started the fire there, which could easily be seen on the street. >> i think this is a mistake of a killer who is not particularly organized, a killer who thought that the use of an accelerant, gasoline presumably would burn faster, hotter and more completely. >> but the killers assumptions were wrong. >> this resulted in the potential discovery of much physical evidence that could be prese...

Brought you last night. it was breaking at 11:00. two people had to jump to safety to make it out of their burning home alive. >> detroit firefighter michael joiner is one of the first responders at the scene. >> we got a call to a dwelling fire. it was on helen street. which is on the east side of detroit. it appeared someone fire bombed the structure. >> from the outside it looks like the fire is raging out of control. its actually contained to the front of the house, but the two clearly terri...

Seen since 2008 and thats because of the underlying economic problems. youve heard from the former head of the new york stock exchange the scaling back of chinas growth from 8% to 5%. thats a huge change. its not just the change itself thats going to matter. the problem is when the chinese government tries to mitigate the effects of that change, which we saw here and basically was an accelerant on the preexisting problems. that, i think, is cause for great concern. its hard to see if things do c...

Everything right. but we did not set the fire, we did not murder anybody. >> infrared photography taken by helicopters above the building shows the fire igniting in three different places inside the compound. >> all of the indications are that the fire was set from within, presumably by some of david koreshs follower. >> nine branch davidians exited that compound that last day. >> theres a person jumping, hanging from that window. >> seven of the nine had accelerants on their clothing. >> whethe...

You seen one, you seen both of them. they went everywhere together. >> and jean had no financial motive. jims life insurance amounted to less than $40,000. but local prosecutors were convinced this was an open-and-shut case. >> the theory was she saw the opportunity to get rid of him and poured him and lit it, and then made it seem or tried to tell everyone that it was an accident. the defense asked john lentini, a nationally known fire investigator, for his opinion. >> with respect to the quali...

Around jims body, the type of patterns which result from the use of an accelerant. >> to him, it suggested that james long had been lying on the floor and gasoline or an accelerant had been poured over him intentionally, and he had been set afire. >> and jims autopsy revealed even more evidence. that he was unconscious before the fire started.

Fire. >> there was money there in the form of insurance money. and that in and of itself is a powerful motive. >> i believe he received about $200,000 in insurance benefits. >> a second motive that some of the investigators believed existed was that paul camiolo was tired of caring for his infirmed parents. >> fire investigators searched through the rubble and found something very suspicious. >> in the center of the room there was a pattern that looked like perhaps it might have been associated ...

The molecular components of the samples, and the results showed there was evidence of gasoline on the wood floor. >> and the single biggest piece of evidence for them to conclude this was an arson fire was the finding of gasoline in the hardwood floor, because how else would you explain gasoline in a living room? >> when the test results come back, it changes from i dont know to, wow, we have an accelerant here. this must be an arson, and that changes peoples opinions. >> to prosecutors, the pre...

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Massacre at a black church in charleston brian todd joining us now from greeleyville in south carolina an hour from charleston. whats the latest over there, brian. >> reporter: wolf see whats left of the mount zion ame church. outside the brick structure still there. atf investigators told us not long ago they sent in canine team to look for accelerants to. night federal investigators believe this fire might have been started by of a lightning strike. that according to senior officials in the fb...