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You and find out what exactly you know. you probably know more than me at this point. >> no. >> so together he and police talked about the hours before the fire. where she had been, what thhad e and paul been doing? >> yesterday was my birthday. went out. everything was fine. >> who's we? >> me and her and all the friends. >> who's her? >> jennifer. >> that's your girlfriend? >> yeah. >> paul explained to police that he spent the afternoon at an appointment in san jose, got back to palo alto in time for his cafe to open for the evening. >> there was traffic. i got to the cafe because that's wh...

Chose to basically lie to us three times. and we were able to prove that he lied to us by the hard evidence that 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 -- i don't think i could have convicted him. >> at his sentencing, an angry paul zumot again protested his innocence but he was sent away 25 to life for murder, plus eight years for arson. after the fire, the palo alto cottage was repaired. perhaps new love growing in there. young people were still c...

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 an emergency restraining order on me in august because she said paul threatened me, blah, blah, blah. i said, no, she came to the cafe and broke the door. in my cafe. we always had problems like this, me and her. i never touched a girl in my life. you can see the police reports. >> suspicious? sure. but as they asked around among ...

Whether it be physically, verbally, emotionally. >> 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 policemen, 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 the 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 ...

Were in the clear, cops do what they always do in cases like this. it's practically police work 101. 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 repo...