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>> reporter: so good, he trains many of the nation's wildfire investigators. >> watch how it comes out low and goes out high. >> reporter: hours after she called for help he flew to colorado at the same time the driver of that van spotted leaving the scene was found but had an alibi and was cleared. investigators had no other leads so they returned to the scene and began a pain staking forensic investigation. he mapped the path of the flame with colored flags. >> we were going to use the physical marks a fire leaves, which is basically the fire's footprints. >> reporter: and sifted through the...

Could a person have smelled smoke from a 20 x 20 fire and they said no, there is no way you could have. >> reporter: at that moment the mystery would shift once again. >> the more we talked to her, the clearer it became to us that she moved from a witness to a person of interest. >> reporter: it changed from who done it to a more perplexing question, would a forest worker, a mother of two set off what became the worst fire in colorado history? >> up next, part two of thelma's story. the investigators close in on the suspected arsonist, then offers an alibi that just doesn't add up to seasoned ...

I tried to cover it up because of fear. >> we had an admission. she was admitting to being responsible for this fire, and that was the goal. >> reporter: but jones said the evidence never pointed to any letter. >> i never found any remnants of paper. >> reporter: to an untrained eye it would seem plausible that the paper along with the unburned matches would burn in the campfire and that's the end of that. >> well, i mean i still had the matches, and they didn't blow away. >> you know, i was pretty confident that if there had been paper there, you know, we would have found it. >> reporter: jon...

Their initial conclusion, a no-brainer, careless campers started the fire. in fact, a witness did report seeing a van leaving the area. >> i'm thinking why am i going to a campfire, you know? >> reporter: jones remembers thinking it was a waste of time trekking six hours through the smoky haze to find and question a negligent camper? what is it like being back to the scene of the crime? >> it's -- it's a little strange to be back because it doesn't look anything like it did then. >> reporter: when jones first arrived here, the very place where the fire began, her instincts immediately took ove...

And said bulger was directly involved in some and said in bulger's gang, death was a way of life. shelley murphy joins us with more. shelley, help us understand this very significant day in court. this was the first time, right, a trial witness in this case a confessed killer john testified whitey bulger himself committed murder, right? >> that's right. he says that whitey was the triggerman in a bar owner back in '70s. they drove to the scene, they got out, walked down the hill. he heard a burst of fire, and he came back and said he is gone. >> eddy coners, the bar owner. that's the old hood....