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People lie on their driver's license. and so sometimes that information isn't correct. >> the medical examiner wanted to make a positive identification using scientific methods. this proved to be harder than anyone expected. >> based on the extent of the burns on the face and the hands and the arms, we couldn't do fingerprints. we couldn't do facial recognition. so our only choice was dna and dental. >> well, as it turns out, ari squire hadn't been to the dentist in almost a decade. >> at the fire scene, investigators saw something suspicious on the garage circuit panel. >> checking out all th...

Ticket halls and tunnels wasn't easy. >> there was nothing quite like seeing a fire scene firsthand to give you a full appreciation of the devastation that has taken place, and also to give you a feel for how the fire might have developed. >> they needed to answer two critical questions -- what sparked the fire? and how could it appear so suddenly and erupt into a fatal blaze that claimed 31 lives? nearly a million people relied on the underground each day. they needed to know if the system was safe. >> it was on the front pages of every newspaper, obviously, for several days, and there was en...

>> there were statements from barry bench and tammy heisner. tammy told police that barry behaved suspiciously when he got to the fire scene. >> why are we stopping here? >> look around and see if you see any evidence. >> like what? >> like, i don't know, just look. >> she claimed he wanted to search an area 100 yards from the farmhouse. >> we had parked down the street from the farm and he had mentioned to me that maybe we should go down by the car and start back up on opposite sides of the road, looking for evidence or something, you know, just to see if there was anything amiss or whatever....

From the workshop into their home to call the fire department. at the fire scene, investigators found the remnants of the kerosene heater, but the plastic fuel can was found outside the workshop door in perfect condition, inconsistent with jean's story. major mike overbee believed that the position of jim's body was inconsistent with most fire victims. >> it appeared that his legs were outstretched, his arms were above his head. it appeared to me the way someone would be positioned if they had been dragged in a particular spot or carried. that was the first thing that i noticed -- that they we...

Appreciate it. we'll be right back. i was a firefighter in philly for seven years. you get to a fire scene and the firefighters are there to put out the fire. the salvation army and the red cross assist the people once the fire is out. but there just wasn't anyone to help the other part of the family. i would see how upset the people were about their animals. where is my pet? and then where's it going to go? these are people's children. they've just lost everything. they shouldn't then be forced to lose their pets, as well. we have a dog displaced by a fire, a chihuahua. i'm headed to the sc...