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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. e. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. â...

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? ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ...

Window. >> the entire room becomes engulfed in flames because there's so much burning and so much hot gas that it's completely uninhabitable. >> but the police witnessed the window breaking five or six minutes after paul called the fire department. to roby, this meant that gasoline couldn't have been used to start the fire. >> he would have had a tough time actually getting to the front door without being engulfed in flames. that's one of the things our model showed. so we look at the arson scenario and there is inconsistency after inconsistency. >> next, roby tested paul camiolo's story. paul...

Outweigh logic and science. and luckily logic and science prevailed in this case. >> paul spent ten months in jail, facing a possible death sentence for a crime that never happened. >> there are days i can't bear to look at pictures of my mother and father. because i -- i just remember the fire. >> he spent ten months in jail. that was liberty that was taken away from him that he'll never get back. it was a time he should have been grieving for the loss of his parents, and instead he was fighting for his own life. >> when asked how it felt to be right all along, not surprisingly, steve avato h...

>> 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 retested the samples of hardwood floor using atomic absorption spectroscopy. >> it's a way to measure the concentration of metals in a solution. >> the wood f...