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for that baby. she wanted to be a mom. >> this wasn't somebody thinking about suicide. >> exactly. it made me wonder was he a murderer? >> you are trying to prove a murderer with pretty much no evidence. >> correct. >> is he kind of gloating he got away with it? >> he is thinking, well, catch me if you can. we are going to do her and her family justice. we are going to solve this murder. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, and welcome to "dateline". meg purk was a young mom to be, over the moon to be having her first child. then, just days before her due date, she died of an apparent suicide. her ...

Who would want to murder you . And i just kind of looked at him like, what . I couldnt believe it. Was he watching me . That fire was set. Very calculating. Years before his wife killed herself. Yes. He claimed she committed suicide days before she was due to give birth to her first child. She was extremely excited for that baby. She wanted to be a mom. This wasnt somebody thinking about suicide. Exactly. It made me wonder was he a murderer . You are trying to prove a very old murder with pretty much no evidence. Correct. Is he kind of gloating he got away with it . He is thinking, well, catch...

>> you think to yourself, we're getting close to the finish line here? >> yes, we are. yes, we are building this case. i think is going to lead to justice for the victim. >> the summit county prosecutor agreed. >> we wanted to make sure that justice was done and we also we're working with a family that never believed that meg purk killed herself. and we wanted to make sure that they got justice. >> all that would have to wait. there was still the matter of the two are since. scott pleaded guilty in both cases. and the judge sentenced him to the maximum, 28 years in prison. in november 2015, sc...

Investigators then went to a vacant apartment a few doors down and hung a dummy, roughly the same size and weight as meg from the banister for a few minutes, before cutting it down. [noise] >> well, just that action alone created several indentations in the soft pine wood that we were tied off to. >> and the first time around, when meg actually died, there were no indentations? >> correct. correct. >> later, investigators use modeling clay and groups of varying sizes to try and recreate the marks they'd seen on meg's body. >> and we could not recreate that ligature mark with rope. >> only a be...