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Mommy and i went to a museum. i met her friend rob. time is now 8:20 p.m. >> reporter: almost two hours pass before tony is seen again. mr. tung, is seen on video parking his car at 10:10 pm. we see him on that video walk from his car to his residence. then about 20 minutes later security cameras again catch a glimpse of tony. >> you will see him walk to his car. you will see him enter his car. you will see him spend perhaps two minutes in the car. you will see him walk to the corner. not his co...

I could, just to see if there was any activity, see if anybody was home. >> reporter: anything? >> all the lights were off, everything was quiet. when i went around to the side, the amount of smoke and the amount of flames -- the basement was fully engulfed. >> reporter: you have no gear -- >> nothing -- i also noticed that the neighbor had a spigot nearby. i was pouring water on the windowsill, but that fire inside was rolling. [ sirens ] >> reporter: once inside the burning house firefighters ...

>> reporter: according to police, tonys car never moved again that night. how do you think he got to new jersey? >> oh, he definitely got to new jersey by car. and he definitely had help in some form. >> reporter: whats your theory? >> that particular form of help took is unknown, but there are many ways for an individual to get to new jersey without having a record of that trip made. >> reporter: the prosecutor argued that tony had plenty of time to make the 13 mile trip to teaneck and return i...

Heres andrea with the fire inside. >> reporter: its been said that everyone has three lives, one public, one private. and one -- secret. but in 2011 two new york area families had all three exposed when their lives collided in a lurid tale of sex and jealousy -- fire and murder. >> its terrifying because then you think, "well, hey. it could happen to me." >> it could happen to any one of us. >> forever, those people -- forever their souls will be marred and torn by these events. >> its hard to k...

Are you thinking, ive gotta spring into action here in case someone needs to be rescued? >> i started yelling, i started pounding on the door as hard as i could, just to see if there was any activity, see if anybody was home. >> reporter: anything? >> all the lights were off, everything was quiet. when i went around to the side, the amount of smoke and the amount of flames -- the basement was fully engulfed. >> reporter: you have no gear -- >> nothing -- i also noticed that the neighbor had a sp...

>> reporter: day after day, tony tung watched the prosecution portray him as a cold blooded killer. it wasnt a pretty picture and according to tony, it wasnt a true one, either. >> theres a lot of bad things adding up here. where he was killed. you wiping your computer hours after the murder. you going to visit him. >> yeah, but -- i didnt kill him. >> did you have someone drive you over to teaneck -- >> no. no. >> reporter: for sandra milon, the prosecutions theory that tony murdered his wifes ...

On the surface, there were haunting similarities. in april of 2010, 69-year-old dolores alliotts had been found stabbed to death in her burning home. she was a woman that was known to leave her house open. she did not lock her doors. it could have been a stranger from the street. >> reporter: a few months later, 74-year-old joan davis, a well known community activist -- seen here at a teaneck city council meeting -- was found strangled and stabbed to death in her burning home. >> we had always b...

When you cannot even prove that he was in new jersey? >> reporter: in closing, kalish urged the jurors to ignore the prosecutions circumstantial theories and emotional appeals. >> what we have to do --to follow, to follow through on whats right and not what comes out of here, but what comes out of here. >> reporter: after a trial that lasted two months, the jury spent several days deliberating. for former prosecutor john molinelli, it was a tense time. >> did you worry as the jury was deliberati...

Mommy and i went to a museum. i met her friend rob. time is now 8:20 p.m. >> reporter: almost two hours pass before tony is seen again. mr. tung, is seen on video parking his car at 10:10 pm. we see him on that video walk from his car to his residence. then about 20 minutes later security cameras again catch a glimpse of tony. >> you will see him walk to his car. you will see him enter his car. you will see him spend perhaps two minutes in the car. you will see him walk to the corner. not his co...

Senator rockefeller and said, there was no evidence of a traffic study. they sat there for four months. every single new jersey commissioner i would say is in dereliction of their responsibility to the people we all represent in new jersey particularly the people i represent in my area including fort lee and engelwood and leonia and teaneck, all the surrounding towns, palisades park, that suffered through those traffic jams. this is horrendous. >> who created that false report, that suggestion t...