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And several of us visited him on a regular basis. we all believed that he was innocent. >> as the trial approached, paul camiolo and his defense team looked for some way to prove that the fire was an accident. >> i couldnt imagine how the gasoline got in there. >> there had to be another explanation as to why gasoline was in that floor. e. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff,...

And gas levels in the room would be fatal. at 5 1/2 minutes the fire reaches flashover and the window blows out. this was consistent with paul camiolos version of events. >> matches up with everything that paul camiolo was saying and with other objective evidence that he has nothing to do with. >> but important questions remained. if the fire was an accident, why was gasoline found on the living room floor? ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and theres n...

Window. >> the entire room becomes engulfed in flames because theres so much burning and so much hot gas that its completely uninhabitable. >> but the police witnessed the window breaking five or six minutes after paul called the fire department. to roby, this meant that gasoline couldnt have been used to start the fire. >> he would have had a tough time actually getting to the front door without being engulfed in flames. thats one of the things our model showed. so we look at the arson scenario...

Outweigh logic and science. and luckily logic and science prevailed in this case. >> paul spent ten months in jail, facing a possible death sentence for a crime that never happened. >> there are days i cant bear to look at pictures of my mother and father. because i -- i just remember the fire. >> he spent ten months in jail. that was liberty that was taken away from him that hell never get back. it was a time he should have been grieving for the loss of his parents, and instead he was fighting ...

>> they took samples of the carpeting, the carpet padding, and some newspaper, and there was no gasoline in any of those samples. it was only in the hardwood floor. and it was just inconceivable, how can you pour gasoline in a family room and not get the gas on those other items if that was going to be the cause of the fire? >> so the defense team hired john lentini, a nationally recognized fire expert, to find out what happened. lentini retested the samples of hardwood floor using atomic absorp...

motive. well bring you that briefing that we expect to get any minute as it is going to be getting under way shortly. i think were showing you liver pictur live pictures there. details trickled out, among them, the shooters id. sources familiar with the investigation say that the bald white man who entered the temple yesterday with a 9/11 tattoo was 40-year-old wade michael page. he is said to be an army vet, a psychological operations specialist discharged in 1998 for patterns of misc...

the best that i could describe was a ski rope type. the woven type and it was my guess about 24 inches long. >> no. >> williams denies there was any such cord. >> because if that rope had been in the station wagon that night, im sure they would have taken it. >> the fact that i didnt confiscate it didnt make it go away. >> the nylon cord would never be seen again. >> could have been the murder weapon as far as i know. >> fbi supervisors decided to let wayne williams go that night. >>...

Major highway amid smoke from a suspected arson fire tops our news from around the world in 80 seconds. germany, police say more than 20 vehicles were in the wreck. it killed at least one person. cops say they suspect somebody set fire to plastic pipes beneath a bridge and the smoke made it difficult for the drivers to see. local reports inicate the fire damage to the bridge is so severe, workers might need to tear it down. madagascar. an intense probable cyclone hit the indian ocean island. str...

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Did nothing to offend the person? >> reporter: in his native germany, burkhart is also under investigation for an arson fire there in october that gutted a house owned by his family. in vancouver, british columbia the "province" newspaper reports that harry burkhart suffers from severe anxiety, autism and several other medical conditions. according to a letter submitted by a doctor in a court case there. cnn has tried to reach the doctor without success. back in los angeles investigators found f...