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at them like what? i could not believe it. was he watching me? >> that fire was set to throw us off. he was very calculating. >> years before, his wife killed herself. >> yes, he claimed she committed suicide days before she was due to give birth to their first child. >> she was extremely excited for that first baby. >> it made me wonder okay, is he a murderer? >> so, now you are trying to prove a very old mother with pretty much no evidence. >> is a kind of gloating that he got away with it? >> he is thinking well, catch me if you can. we're going to do her and her family justice. w...

Going to be this case on dateline, and so he told me to watch it, just to see the lawyer. >> that dateline program from august 2011 told the story of ryan ferguson, a young man sitting in prison for a murder that he said he did not commit. attorney kathleen villeneuve was determined to get him out. >> when the trial has been lost, everything has been lost, and you've got somebody innocent, it is like the ultimate challenge i think. >> that is the woman that is going to get stephen out of prison. >> eleanor specializes in wrongful conviction cases, and says that she is freed many defendants, in...

Whether or not digging her up again was the right thing to do. >> exactly. it was a tough conversation to have with -- i went and spoke with mixed mom. >> she believed with the rest of the family it wasn't a suicide. >> exactly. and they were very supportive of all of us to do an examination. >> with meg's family on board, the prosecutor asked a court to order her examination. >> we definitely needed the body of meg purk to be exhumed for the medical examiner. >> if the body is not in good shape, could this go forward? >> if it had been too decomposed, it's unlikely this case would ever have b...

Mom. >> she believed with the rest of the family it wasn't a suicide. >> exactly. and they were very supportive of all of us to do an examination. >> with meg's family on board, the prosecutor asked a court to order her examination. >> we definitely needed the body of meg purk to be exhumed for the medical examiner. >> if the body is not in good shape, could this go forward? >> if it had been too decomposed, it's unlikely this case would ever have been prosecuted. >> while the detective pressed forward, that summer, lidl report up the murder investigations in august 2011 scott purk was indicte...

Supporters have been hoping for good news and they couldn't know it, yet but help was just around the corner. >> he's very gentle and very loving. >> sandy is avery's longtime friend and one-time fiancé. convinced of his innocence, she said she searched for years to find the right attorney to take on his complicated case. during a call from prison, a re-told her to watch dateline. >> he heard there was going to be this right in ferguson case on dateline, and he told me to watch it just to see the lawyer. >> that dateline program, from august 2011, told a story of ryan ferguson, a young man si...