him like, what i couldn t believe it. was he watching me that fire was set very calculating years before his wife kille herself. yes he claimed she committed suicide days before she was du to give birth to her first child. she was extremely excited for that baby. she wanted to be a mom this wasn t somebod thinking about suicide exactly it made me wonder was he a murderer you are trying to prove a murderer with pretty much no evidence correct is he kind of gloating he got away with it he is thinking, well, catch me if you can. we are going to do her and her family justice we are going to solve this murder hello, and welcome to dateline meg purk was a young mom to be over the moon to be having her first child. then, just days before her due date, she died of an apparen suicide. her family struggled t understand why, but in a strange twist, a house fire se decades later would point to a possible answer and pu investigators on a trail towards the tru
gas meter. the idea was fire starts, the gasoline goes to the gas main, and possibly destroys th house, and everybody in it absolutely. mifflin found the pur family sheltered at a neighbor s house, and asked the father scott purk, to step outside. we actually went over to my unmarked detective bureau car, and we sat in my car, where it was nice and warm. the first question is, wh would want to burn down your house? who are your enemies exactly, right. scott said he really didn have any there was no one he knew tha was so angry at him that would want to try to harm him or his family so, the investigation basicall took off from there. perhaps it was the warm car on such a cold night, or maybe it was mifflin s warm manner either way, scott purk was feeling chatty he lost his job about eight or nine days prior to this