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>> that boy was good to his parents. >> we were all there to support 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. as a solution that's as revolutionary as its beds. introducing the sleep number dualtemp™ layer! the amazing sleep number dualtemp layer allows both of...

>> when the defense team learned about steve avato's opinion that the fire was an accident, they conducted their own investigation and hired dr. rick 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 3-d fire modeling software that actually allows yo...

Been charged with first-degree murder was the gasoline found on the wood floors in the living room. but paul's defense team was suspicious of this finding. >> they took samples of the carpeting, the carpet padding, and some newspaper, and there was no gasoline in any of those samples. it was only in the hardwood floor. and it was just inconceivable, how can you pour gasoline in a family room and not get the gas on those other items if that was going to be the cause of the fire? >> so the defense team hired john lentini, a nationally recognized fire expert, to find out what happened. lentini re...

It doesn't matter. he's a thief. he's a rapist and he's a murderer. he just got old. that's all there is to it. >> all the scientific, forensic evidence, we're going to see a lot more cold cases being solved based on the advancements in technology. in the aftermath of a fatal fire, one question remained. was it an accident or was it arson? it took the physics of a burning cigarette, the chemical composition of a flame, and a computer-simulated fire to determine how the fire started and who was responsible. for 25 years ed and rosalie camiolo lived in an affluent suburb outside of philadelphi...

Ed was a retired government worker and rosalie worked in the computer industry. 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 ...