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On a fellow forest worker, one of their own, terry barton spent nearly two decades preventing fires in colorado's national forests. the married mother of two raised her daughters here. this was barton's backyard. she was praised for trying to put the fire out and jones was closing in on her because her previous statements didn't make sense so jones confronted her. >> we don't know what happened, terry, but there is no way anyone else started this fire. you started the fire. i'm not an arsonist. she's like i'm not an arsonist, i'm a firefighter. >> reporter: what she was about to reveal to agen...

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Evidence just in case arson is the cause. colorado fire officials know all too well how important protecting that crime scene is. the investigation into the giant hayman wildfire in denver in 2002 initially thought to be caused by careless campers and became a hunt for an arsonist. how investigators came to that conclusion is a fascinating piece of detective work. here's thelma gutierrez. >> there's flames leaping 30, 40 feet into the air. >> reporter: this was a fast-moving giant of a fire. >> they have never seen a fire burn this hot, this fast. >> reporter: how to slow it, let alone stop it...

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: jones and her mentor senior special agent paul steensland sent this ash from the campfire to a federal lab to screen for trace evidence of paper. >> of course, they found not a shred of paper material. we don't believe there was a love letter in this case, and her motivation was to start a small fire, certainly not the biggest fire in colorado history but start a sma...

>> what about the irs itself? any response? >> not to black's case citing federal law that prohibits them about speaking out about individual taxpayer's cases, however, we got a spokesperson from the irs that said audits in general, i'll read, the irs stresses audits are based on information contained on the tax return and the underlying tax law. nothing else. john, i believe that is somewhat of a defense from the irs about this story but again, it's the inspector general from the treasury department conducting this investigation. >> we'll sure you'll stay on top of it. we'll follow this one a...