without paul. then, in december 2008, some time in the early morning hours, somewhere in her house, a fire started. a house is totally on fire. it s on fire? when firefighters arrived, the big red house was a wall of flames. they had no idea if anyone was still inside. does anyone of there? yes, yes, the kids! are they in the house? i don t know. neighbors knew paul wasn t there. he wasn t living in an apartment three hours away with his new girlfriend. that morning he got a call from catherine s pastor. i picked it up and it was pastor phyllis she goes, where the kids, where the kids? unlike, there with me. what s going? she goes, the house is on fire. firefighters worked for hours dousing the flames. when catherine s friends sue muller arrived, the fire was still raging. she stood vigil for hours. waiting to hear news of her friend. all of a sudden, the firemen were all concentrated in one area looking down into the basement.
the novak had both going up at city kids. paul was in new york city paramedic, a job that seemed a perfect fit. i wanted to be that person that would show up, that would help my parents. would help my sister if she was in a car accident. or something like that. but he also saw the dark side of city life. a little too close to home. i would do shootings and stabbings two blocks away from my apartment. i always thought to myself, i could never raise a child in this area. so, in 2002, paul and his wife catherine went house hunting in narrowsburg, new york. a small hamlet tucked between the catskill and poconos mountains. they didn t need to look for long. it was the big red house, as she called it. and she will talk about the big red house all the time. catherine s brother michael and sister in law joanne says she worked hard to make the big red house a home. growing up, we live in apartments. you know, this was a space of her own. yeah, she was thrilled to have five acres
instead, he said with another paramedic who drove to narrowsburg. as far as i know, scott was locked in the car and pull walked down to the house. michelle said paul told her he went inside, set off the basement smoke alarm, hid behind the stairs, and when catherine came downstairs to investigate, he tried to knock her out with chloroform. this was supposed to be quick and painless and, you know, she was supposed to be passed out before she knew what happened. but i guess he put over her mouth and it didn t work. she was screaming and begging for her life. through her tears, michelle spilled out gruesome details of what she said paul said what s her final words were. he she said to think of her children. and he told me the only thing she said to her, i m doing this for the kids. and he said that she had been wearing a hoodie sweatshirt and
himself had a answer to that. are you having any financial issues at this point? at that point, i was in a better financial situation at that point suit previously. because i ended up getting a second job at a hospital in queens, for which i was high-paid. then he had his most crucial witness, paul s landlord. the defense wanted to use him to undermine a key point in the prosecution s case. he and paul drove home to paul s house. you went straight to paul s house when you came back? yes. but on the stand, pulls landlord disputed that, he said he was setting photo shoot did not lay eyes on any of them. how could the man be out there and never see scott core sherwood paul. there s only one way, it did not happen! the lawyers testimony less
they moved into what catherine dubbed the big red house. the sioux fire would ravage the couples home. and when the flames subsided one of them would be dead, leaving investigators wondering if the blaze was a tragic accident or something more sinister. here is andrea canning with secrets and lies . on a frigid december morning in 2008, in a tiny, picturesque town along the banks of the delaware, a tragedy unfolded. 9-1-1. what is your emergency? the whole house is on fire. a deadly blaze burned a small country house to the ground. and left behind in the ashes were secrets. love gone wrong. illicit affairs. friends turning against each other. it would take years to unravel the mystery of that fire. haunting this town. and those who loved the couple who once lived in that house,