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Sign that jim had escaped. >> i just thought my dad would come walking out but no. >> the long's home was attached to a workshop jim used to store the equipment for his tree trimming business. it too was on fire. after the fire was put out, the foo fire fighters cut through the metal sighting, they found the body of 53-year-old jim long. gene was taken to the hospital where she was treated for minor scrapes and bruises. one of the scrapes was on her chin. she told police that her husband tried to fill the kerosene lamp with fuel. >> everything was covered with flames. she tried to put it out w...

Unusual cold snap with temperatures below freezing. citrus growers used kerosene heaters to save their orange crop. jim and gene lawn used a kerosene heater in their home so the pipes wouldn't freeze. something went terribly wrong. when fire man arrived, the hours was totally ablaze. gene long had escaped the fire but her husband jim was trapped inside. >> my father-in-law came to the door to wake us, he said that there is a fire at your dad's house and it's bad. >> it was engulfed in flames. a very shocking moment. >> fireman searched the area around the home but there was no

Husband on fire. she failed that question and failed whether she was present when he was murdered. >> investigators found jim was angry with his wife for spending so much time in kansas each year visiting relatives. there were also rumor that jim may have been planning to leave jean. major overbey believes on the night of the fire the couple may have been discussing a divorce which prompted an argument. >> it's our theory that there was a domestic situation between mr. long and his wife. i believe that the abrasion on her chin came from him possibly slapping her. and his skull fractures, i bel...

The year. in january of 2003, there was an unusual cold snap with temperatures below freezing. citrus growers used kerosene heat force save their orange -- heaters to save their orange crop. jean and jim long used a kerosene heater in the workshop of their home so the pipes wouldn't freeze. something went terribly wrong. when firemen arrived, the house of totally ablaze. jean long had escaped the fire, but her husband, jim, was trapped inside. >> my father-in-law came to the door to wake us. he said that -- he said there's a fire at your dad's house, and it's bad. >> it was engulfed in flames....

But lentini discovered that the workshop housed containers of fuel for jim's tree-trimming equipment. >> in the shop we had vehicles, we it tanks of acetylene, pro-tan, containers of liquid fuels. >> we had chainsaws in there. lots of papers, clothing, lots of kpuftibles. and whether it went -- combustibles. and when it went up, it really went up. >> and lentini disputed police claims that there were pour patterns around jim's body. he said the heat of the fire made such a determination impossible. >> once you get to full room involvement, you're going to get all kinds of patterns that are eas...