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Clothes and he was going to head out. purk was read his rights, and at that point, the man who would literally talk himself into serious trouble suddenly refused to say anything to investigators. after being processed, detective mifflin paid him a visit and delivered a message scott purk probably never saw coming. i let him know, you know, we are looking into his first wife s death. he looks at me, and you could tell all the color in his face strained right out, and that s not what he expected. he looked like he d seen a ghost. scott purk was done talking, but the long very body of his first wife, meg, had an astonishing tale to tell. more than two decades after her death. coming up the bruises on her neck or going their own way? yes, and they re not from a rope. bombshell new evidence emerges from the grave. ....
But, you know, after that, she came out, she had not cut herself or anything like that. dawn kracker said something similar happened, once went she and meg shared an apartment. i came home, and i saw on the floor, and there was a note on the coffee table, and it said she had tried to hang herself using the court from the mini blinds. did that note explain why meg wanted to take her own life? there wasn t an explanation other than she felt that everybody would be happier if she was gone. to underscore his claim that meg had hung herself, mifflin says, scott gave one of her poems to the akron detective investigated her death. at the very end of the poem, it says and that she killed herself. and, what? maybe that is the equivalent of a suicide note, or reflective of the way meg purk was thinking. exactly. except, according to family members, that is something meg had written back in high school, and in no way represented her mood in the days before she ....
There. to which he could offer no explanation about why those or even in the van. it was a few days after the fire at s house that stow s chief arson investigation called detected skin mifflin. and he says, you ve got to hear this. so, he played me the 9-1-1 tape. there s a fire. had mifflin heard something on that initial 9-1-1 call from s daughter. something he wanted light delta here to. during a lull, can scott purk be heard calmly whispering to someone. oh, god, you forgot the ferry. he s talking about a pet ferret and his tone seem to be more rueful oversight van anguished alarm. that was a bit of a flag. leading us to believe that there had been a plan anyways, all along. and add in s money woes and ....
One block away. and almost exactly a year before? at almost the same time in the morning. for the past year, jim had lidel analyze the evidence from the blaze at scott purk s home. he was convinced that fire had been an inside job. and based on what he knew about arsonists, this fire was likely set by the same person. it s unusual for them to switch method once they have a pattern that works for them. find something that works. the will do something very, very similar on each of their fires. it had to be scott. we took that was also another scott was trying to show us that there is a serial arsonists in the neighborhood, but it wasn t him. because he left on the other side of town now. investigators were not fooled. mifflin and went lidel to the apartment complex where the purks had been living says their house burned down. the family car parked outside and still warm on that freezing night reeked of gasoline. and then in the apartment, we find a gas can sitting right ....
Would want to burn down your house? who are your enemies? exactly, right. scott said he really didn t have any. there was no one he knew that was so angry at him that would want to try to harm him or his family. so, the investigation basically took off from there. perhaps it was the warm car on such a cold night, or maybe it was mifflin s warm manner. either way, scott purk was feeling chatty. he lost his job about eight or nine days prior to this. things were not going well in his life. when asked how he and his wife tammy had spent the evening prior to the fire, purk responded with this little shocker. scott and tammy are swingers. and they spent the evening basically apart because scott was at home, but tammy was out with a friend of hers. another man? another man. ....