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Detective can mifflin. he and his partner quickly suspected scott words not only the arsonists, but a murderer. who killed his pregnant first wife, meg. now, a stunning new development was about to add fuel to the fire. back to josh mankiewicz with "secrets from the grave". >> amy remembers well the night her duplex apartment in stow, ohio, caught fire. it was march 27th, 2010. a rare night off for the 24 year old intensive care nurse. >> i was at my boyfriends. i got a call in the middle of the...

Emergency? >> its union theyll drive. there is a fire. >> the house, or what? >> the house. >> the caller was a 16-year-old girl who told the 9-1-1 operator that she, her parents, and her younger brother had all escaped, but barely. and her father took the phone. >> i dont really understand. it -- the entire front of our house is just engulfed. >> okay. im glad everybody got out. >> that dad was scott purk. you will be hearing a lot about him. purk said his family had been sound asleep when he h...

Smart as he thought he was. thanks to his own loose lips, scott had already made himself the prime suspect in not one, but two criminal investigations. so, imagine the investigators surprise when, in 2010, a year after the purks house burned down from an arson fire, the same thing happened to another house just around the corner. >> coming up -- >> i got a call in the middle of the night saying the house was on fire. >> another house in flames. >> the gas meter itself was disconnected and was ju...

At that, at her. she lived nearby, but she was fine. financially, she was stable and was successful with her rentals. so, she had absolutely no motive for burning it. >> one thing was obvious, this fire was no accident. >> the gas beater itself was disconnected and was just hanging by the inlet fitting. the responding fire crews had a difficult time extinguishing this fire until they were able to shut the gas off. to the meters. >> so, the gas is just escaping into the air? >> correct. >> nothin...

[laughs] i realized that the modus operandi, or the emerald, was the same. >> one broccoli? >> correct. one block away. >> and almost exactly a year before? >> at almost the same time in the morning. >> for the past year, jim had lidel analyze the evidence from the blaze at scott purks home. he was convinced that fire had been an inside job. and based on what he knew about arsonists, this fire was likely set by the same person. >> its unusual for them to switch method once they have a pattern th...

Apartment complex where the purk -- secrets from the grave 1--s had been living says their house burned down. the family car parked outside and still warm on that freezing night reeked of gasoline. >> and then in the apartment, we find a gas can sitting right inside the apartment and a pair of boots that had fresh blood on them. that is just screaming to us, we have found our guy. >> of course, had scott purk always been their guy. that said, the lawmen were still no closer to actually making an...

Was nice and warm. >> the first question is, who would want to burn down your house? who are your enemies? >> exactly, right. scott said he really didnt have any. there was no one he knew that was so angry at him that would want to try to harm him or his family. so, the investigation basically took off from there. >> perhaps it was the warm car on such a cold night, or maybe it was mifflins warm manner. either way, scott purk was feeling chatty. >> he lost his job about eight or nine days prior ...

Firefighters smelled gasoline as soon as they got out of their trucks. so a call immediately went out to stow police detective ken mifflin. >> when i got there, i saw the fire department still putting out the blaze. someone had taken probably a pipe wrench to disconnect the gas line. and it was blowing out natural gas. it was a very large roaring sound. >> at that point, the gas hadnt ignited? >> no. it could have possibly blown up. the person who said to the fire poured gasoline all the way to ...

Scott purk id ask if you ever knew him? >> they did, and ive never seen it before in my life. >> not somebody crossed paths with in your personal life, hospital, anywhere? >> i dont remember seeing him at all. >> the day after the indictment was handed out, jim and another officer staked out scotts apartment. >> and we werent there maybe 15, 20 minutes at the most and here comes scotts been pulling in. he pulls in front of his apartment. we pull in and block him from leaving. >> two and a half y...

He bragged about his crimes on Facebook Live.