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A brush fire just off the southbound lane. a volunteer firefighter was first on the scene. >> climbed down the embankment which was a steep embankment and walked his way toward the fire. when he got there at first he thought it was a mannequin. but as he got closer, he realized it was a human being. >> after the fire was extinction wished, the victim was unable to be identified other than to say he was a black male. >> there was no wallet, there was nothing on his person to immediately identify ...

>> we think he may have been upset with her. you know, shes part of the problem because shes not promoting her race. shes a sellout, if thats the term that he would use. >> when police went to question him, he was gone. neighbors said he hadnt been around since olamide went missing. >> he did not have a vehicle. and the fact that olamides vehicle was missing, that pointed even more directly towards wallace. >> nationwide alerts were issued for wallace and for olamides car. >> when we say that ye...

Filter would have held. then used a more flammable accelerant to propel the fire. he wanted to make it look like the truck broke the fluorescent light, creating the spark that ignited the fire, but thats not what caused the fire. the circuit breakers were off. so there was no power going to the light. he most likely used a match. and the amount of fuel on the body was inconsistent in amount and makeup from the fuel held by a trucks fuel filter. ari clearly didnt realize that fire doesnt destroy ...

Diesel truck fuel filter. but tests showed there was an accelerant on aris clothing more flammable than diesel fuel. >> some red flags were going off i think for our detective bureau certainly. >> it was consistent with like a gasoline type which would have been more of a lighter petroleum product. >> when investigators looked into aris personal life, friends said there was no love lost in the squires childless 14-year marriage. >> they did not sleep in the same bed. when i did get to the house,...

I just have a gut feeling that theres something about this one that, you know, theres more to it than just the typical missing person. >> just a few hours later, a motorist ten miles away spotted a fire in the parking lot of an abandoned building. when he got closer, he was horrified to see what looked like a human body. >> the upper portion of the body was engulfed in flames. an accelerant was believed to have been used, like gasoline. >> the victim, wrapped in a blue tarp and a blanket, was cl...

>> climbed down the embankment which was a steep embankment and walked his way toward the fire. when he got there at first he thought it was a mannequin. but as he got closer, he realized it was a human being. >> after the fire was extinction wished, the victim was unable to be identified other than to say he was a black male. >> there was no wallet, there was nothing on his person to immediately identify who this body was. >> the scent of accelerant was unmistakable. >> we had found a can that ...

The thresholds. much of the furniture, including a large dining room table, has been reduced to piles of ashes. >> they thought that any fire intense enough to make a large heavy dining room table go away was more intense than a normal fire. >> after days of sifting through the homes remains, the investigators reach a conclusion. this fire was no accident. on top of the forensic evidence theyve gathered, police believe that survivor ernest willis is lying about what really happened the night of ...

A liquid accelerant does. >> people have said, oh, the whole house caught fire from one end to the other in under five minutes. somebody must have poured gasoline. its not true. you flash over one room and very quickly your house is involved. >> flashover could also explain the furniture being consumed. >> following a post flashover fire, what you expect to see is tables, chairs, couches, all of it reduced to charcoal. it is very common for fire investigators to work on the premise that the fire...

Something to do with setting the fire. >> there was money there in the form of insurance money. and that in and of itself is a powerful motive. >> he seved about $200,000 in insurance benefits. >> the second motive that some of the investigators believed existed was that paul camiolo was tired of caring for his infirm 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 h...

Even though brambletts jeans had been submerged in water, simpson discovered the stains were diesel fuel, the same accelerant used to start the hodges fire. the blacked-out entry on brambletts time card presented another challenge. forensic documents examiner gordon menses used a video spectral comparator with various light sources in order to attempt to see underneath the black ink. slowly, the information came into view. >> i was able to come up with an original entry that was 5:08 m, which wo...