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>> forensic tests also revealed how the fire started. a cigarette dropped on to a polyurethane sofa will simply smolder. but when a match is dropped on the same material, it's almost like an explosion. and tests revealed that another aspect of paul's story was correct, that when he poured water on the fire, it got worse. >> the average person wouldn't know that polyurethane melts and then when you throw water on it, it actually flares up like a grease fire. >> when prosecutors heard about this, to their credit, they conducted their own test. they secured from the manufacturer the same fabric t...

Roby, an expert on the science of fires. >> what makes it difficult is, fires burn up a lot of the evidence. >> roby studies fires while they're burning. to do this, he sets fires like this one in model rooms. fires progress differently depending on how they're set, the size of the room, airflow and hundreds of other considerations. all of this data is then entered into a computer. >> it's a fully 3d fire modeling software that actually allows you to model the development and growth of a fire in a building. >> for this assignment, roby and his staff built a virtual reality replica of the camio...

Him, and we all went to the hearings, and several of us visited him on a regular basis. we all believed that he was innocent. >> as the trial approached, paul camiolo and his defense team looked for some way to prove that the fire was an accident. >> i couldn't imagine how the gasoline got in there. >> there had to be another explanation as to why gasoline was in that floor. they get re-heated. re-nuked. and re-baked. and when leftovers are done... there's always stuff left over. new dawn platinum power clean calls dibs on those. it powers through tough, dried-on messes in seconds. even 48 hou...

81-year-old husband, ed. firefighters later found him inside. he had been unable to escape. >> the victim that was located was in a rear bathroom, and he was in cardiac arrest at that time. >> ed camiolo was pronounced dead at the hospital. rosalie died, too, a result of smoke inhalation. >> how horrible it must have been for my uncle, what he went through to be burned, and my aunt, how horrible it must have been for her. >> the firemen at the scene didn't see anything suspicious. >> there was a general consensus that the fire was accidental in nature and most probably the result of the carele...

Their only child, paul, a 31-year-old computer programmer, lived upstairs. he took care of his parents, since they had difficulty getting around. >> it's not that they were bedridden or complete invalids, but they certainly weren't athletic and able to respond, in my opinion, to an emergency situation. >> just before dawn in september of 1996, paul made an emergency call to the fire department. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> we have a fire in our living room. it's getting really bad. >> get out of the house. we have the fire department coming out. [ sirens ] >> when police arrived, they fo...