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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 night from a neighbor saying that the house was on fire. we were only about two minutes away, so dr...

Emergency? >> it's union they'll 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 don't really understand. it -- the entire front of our house is just engulfed. >> okay. i'm 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 heard a loud boom. >> it was like we heard an explosion. >> oh, you did? >> yeah. and that's what...

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 purk's 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 just hanging by the inlet fitting. >> so, the gas is escaping into the air? >> correct. >> was anothe...

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. >> nothing about that looks like an accident and it doesn't even look particularly subtle. >> no. not at all....

[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 purk's 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. >> it's unusual for them to switch method once they have a pattern that works for them. find something that works. the will do something very, very similar on each of ...