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>> any time you seen jim, you seen jean. seen one, you seen both of them. they went everywhere together. >> and jean had no financial motive. jim's life insurance amounted to less than $40,000. local prosecutors were convinced this was an open and shut case. >> the theory of show saw the opportunity to get rid of him and poured it and lit it and then made it seem or tried to tell everyone that it was an accident. >> the defense asked john lantini, a nationally known fire investigator, investigator, for his opinion. >> with respect to the quality of the investigation, it ranks up there with the...

Fire department from a phone in the house but investigators found the outside door was locked. if gene locked it on her way out, police saw this as evidence that she was in no hurry to save her husband. >> her husband is on fire burning in this building. she runs outside but she locks the door behind her. see, to me, that's very important. >> you think the jury is going to buy this? i can tell you right now, they won't. >> major overbee was asked to take a polygraph test and she agreed. >> she was asked point blank if she poured her husband in gasoline and set him on fire. >> she failed that q...

That jim long mistakenly filled the hot heater with gasoline, causing the explosion. gene frantically tried to put it out and when she couldn't, she ran to call for help. at some point, jim struck his head on the work bench, which fractured his skull and caused his death. the defense offered no explanation for why gene locked the door on her way out of the house accept that it was force of habit, something she did every time she left the house. gene long herself took the stand in her own defense. >> she came across as completely genuine. terrified about the prospect of what she was going throu...

From the workshop into their home to call the fire department. at the fire scene, investigators found the remnants of the kerosene heater, but the plastic fuel can was found outside the workshop door in perfect condition, inconsistent with jean's story. major mike overbee believed that the position of jim's body was inconsistent with most fire victims. >> it appeared that his legs were outstretched, his arms were above his head. it appeared to me the way someone would be positioned if they had been dragged in a particular spot or carried. that was the first thing that i noticed -- that they we...