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At two minutes it would be moving across the ceiling. at four minutes, temperatures and gas levels in the room would be fatal. at 5 1/2 minutes the fire reaches flashover and the window blows out. this was consistent with paul camiolo's version of events. >> matches up with everything that paul camiolo was saying and with other objective evidence that he has nothing to do with. >> but important questions remained. if the fire was an accident, why was gasoline found on the living room floor?

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 ...

Fire on the sofa which his mother was trying to put out. he ran to the kitchen, got a pitcher of water and threw it on the sofa but it made the fire worse. he told his parents to go out the back door, he called 911. then he went out the front door to his car. >> he was in his underwear i believe at the time. had his car parked out in front. and had a gym bag in his car and he felt he could get shorts or clothes to put on. >> what doesn't make sense to me was paul's story. to this day i have problems with what he says happened. >> this incident raised eyebrows among investigators. >> he went in...

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 careless handling of smoking materials, either a cigarette o...

>> and the alleged pour pattern on the living room floor? many now believe it was simply the result of normal wear and tear. >> you would expect that people walking back and forth on the carpet would thin the carpet and therefore any heat that's imparted on that would pass through that carpet area more quickly than in other areas. >> when all of this overwhelming body of evidence came to light, all charges against paul camiolo were dropped. >> in this business you have people that for a certain amount of money will tell you anything you want to hear. these experts were not of that ilk. and no,...