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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. >> the scene had all the earmarks of a fire at...
There. to which he could offer no explanation about why those or even in the van. >> it was a few days after the fire at's house that stow's chief arson investigation called detected skin mifflin. >> and he says, you've got to hear this. so, he played me the 9-1-1 tape. >> there's a fire. >> had mifflin heard something on that initial 9-1-1 call from 's daughter. something he wanted light delta here to. during a lull, can scott purk be heard calmly whispering to someone. >> oh, god, you forgot the ferry. >> he's talking about a pet ferret and his tone seem to be more rueful oversight van angui...
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 their fires. >> it had to be scott. we took that was also another scott was trying to show us that there...
>> it's essentially sing hinting i'm not gonna find anything hide anything. you're gonna find out monday. >> right. >> arson for insurance money? too early to say, but a real possibility. >> he videotaped everything in his house. in case there was ever a fire. and he just did it recently and when i asked him how recent, he said, very. recent >> and he was doing almost everything he can to make himself sound like a suspect? >> yes. exactly. >> what was mr. purk up to? a detective couldn't guess. parked down the driveway, well away from the burning home sat the purk family van. cleaned up and re...