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From me. and then i remember him. he's the guy that grilled me, the one that got in my face. >> how are you feeling? oh, my gosh. these people are back in my life, four years later. >> at that point i still didn't know what they wanted from me. i knew this guy was yelling at me and then i just looked at him and i said, "i would like to speak to a lawyer." >> reporter: paul had already been interviewed by police several times. he thought this was all behind him. >> you knew it had to be about catherine. >> well, yeah, obviously it had to do something with that. >> reporter: later that day the p...

And when the flames subsided, one of them would be dead leaving investigators wondering if the blaze was a tragic accident or something more sinister. here's andrea canning with "secrets & lies." >> reporter: on a frigid december morning in 2008, in a tiny picturesque town along the banks of the delaware, a tragedy unfolded. >> 911. what is your emergency? >> the whole house is on fire. >> reporter: a deadly blaze burned a small country house to the ground, and left behind in the ashes were secrets. love gone wrong, illicit affairs, friends turning against each other. it would take years to un...

Perspective, she would look for the positive side, the good things, and she would want us to move on. and you know, that's what we tried to do. we made our peace with it, and we went on living. >> reporter: but as time went by in the little town of narrowsburg, dark suspicions were whispered from neighbor to neighbor, and one name kept coming up. catherine's estranged husband, paul novak. her close friend, sue muller. >> i was angry as time went on, and i thought more and more about it and i thought that paul might somehow be involved. >> reporter: as she looked back, she was particularly haun...

But construction at the toll booth forced him to drive through the ez pass lane. >> he made some mistakes. and he couldn't have anticipated the bridge was going to be under construction with no toll takers. >> reporter: and then prosecutors presented what they thought would remove any smudge of doubt from their case. a third person who linked paul to the murder. elyse hanlon, scott sherwood's wife. on the stand she recalled a conversation with paul where he told her that he committed the murder and that he did it alone. >> scott had nothing to do with it. there's no way scott's getting into tr...

There's no winners. >> reporter: almost five years after catherine novak's murder, so many secrets, lies, and betrayals had been revealed. so many questions raised. would the jury believe paul's ex-lover and his ex-partner? was paul a ruthless killer, or had he been set up? it took the jury two full days of deliberations. on the third day they had made a decision. the verdict was in. >> we find in the case of the people of the state of new york versus paul novak as to count 1, murder in the first degree. >> guilty. >> reporter: guilty. convicted of first-degree murder. paul showed only a sligh...