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About $70,000 in debt. >> it's essentially sing hinting i'm not gonna find anything hide anything. you're gonna find out monday. >> right. >> arson for insurance money? too early to say, but a real possibility. >> he videotaped everything in his house. in case there was ever a fire. and he just did it recently and when i asked him how recent, he said, very. recent >> and he was doing almost everything he can to make himself sound like a suspect? >> yes. exactly. >> what was mr. purk up to? a detective couldn't guess. parked down the driveway, well away from the burning home sat the purk family...

Recipes for generations in there. to which he could offer no explanation about why those or even in the van. >> it was a few days after the fire at's house that stow's chief arson investigation called detected skin mifflin. >> and he says, you've got to hear this. so, he played me the 9-1-1 tape. >> there's a fire. >> had mifflin heard something on that initial 9-1-1 call from 's daughter. something he wanted light delta here to. during a lull, can scott purk be heard calmly whispering to someone. >> oh, god, you forgot the ferry. >> he's talking about a pet ferret and his tone seem to be more...

>> wander through any graveyard, and you will find them, mysteries etched in stone. lives cut tragically short by war, disease, misfortune, and sometimes murder. many who arrested in these peaceful places took secrets to their graves. but some here are mainly awaiting. waiting for someone to take interest and ask questions. as you are about to see, the dead can be exceedingly patient. our story begins on a frigid march night in 2009, with a house fire in stow, ohio. that fire was important. not for what it destroyed, but for what it illuminated. >> 9-1-1, where's your

>> i'm craig melvin and this is dateline.aig melvin and this is >> i got a call saying the house was on fire. the first thing they asked me was who would want to kill you? who would want to murder you? and i just kind of looked at him like, what? i couldn't believe it. was he watching me? >> that fire was set. very calculating. >> years before his wife killed herself. >> yes. he claimed she committed suicide days before she was due to give birth to her first child. >> she was extremely excited for that baby. she wanted to be a mom. >> this wasn't somebody thinking about suicide. >> exactly.