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>> as police gathered evidence, bit by bit, asking around about paul, one of them noticed something a little odd. paul told a friend, also a policeman, by the way, two slightly different stories about his whereabouts the day of the fire. first conversation, day of the fire, reported the cop friend, paul said he wasn't home all day. then, second conversation, next day, paul said he stopped briefly at home en route to his hookah cafe. as we say, odd. but people's memories can be tricky. was that one little difference enough to add up to suspicion of murder? police apparently thought so, especial...

They took a closer look at the victim's boyfriend paul. and there was a curious moment in that police interview the day of the fire when paul admitted he wasn't always the best sort of boyfriend. >> me and my girlfriend were broke up, and thanks to palo alto pd, put a restraining order on me because they said paul threatened me, blah, blah, blah. i said, no, she came to the cafe and broke the door. we always have problems like this. i never touched a girl in my life. you can see the police reports. >> suspicious? sure. but as they asked around among the couple's friends, police learned a few t...

At this point, nobody had told him that jennifer was in that fire. >> i'm worried about my house. what about my girlfriend? what caused the fire, and i don't care about this. i just want to know about jennifer right now. >> i'm not sure i know anything more than you do. my job is to talk to you and find out what exactly you know because you probably know more than me at this point. >> no. no. >> so, together, police and zumot talked about the hours before the fire. where had she been? what had she and paul been doing? >> well, yesterday was my birthday. we went out, and everything was fine, yo...

>> as police gathered evidence, bit by bit, asking around about paul, one of them noticed something a little odd. paul told a friend, also a policeman, by the way, two slightly different stories about his whereabouts the day of the fire. first conversation, day of the fire, reported the cop friend, paul said he wasn't home all day. then, second conversation, next day, paul said he stopped briefly at home en route to his hookah cafe. as we say, odd. but people's memories can be tricky. was that one little difference enough to add up to suspicion of murder? police apparently thought so, especial...

Opportunity to tell us where he was and what he was doing, he chose to basically lie to us three times. and we were able to prove he lied to us by the hard evidence we had with the phone records and with the video surveillance and those items. and i just -- to me, that hurt him very badly. >> if he hadn't testified, i can't say for sure, but i don't think i could have convicted him. >> inside his jail cell, his friends say, paul zumot is trying to say strong, waiting for his sentencing, his lawyer working on a motion for a new trial. >> paul is optimistic this is all going to get resolved. and...