just think, any day now, yo are going to be a grea grandmother, and i m going t be a mother. a mother it s even hard for me to believe, but i am lookin forward to it those did not sound like the words of someone thinking of suicide. she was extremely excited for that baby. and that was one of the things she always wanted. she wanted to be a mom she wanted a family. so, dawn was stunned when on march 19th, 1985, she heard meg had been rushed to the hospital and then i get the phon call, and. kind of like th floor drops out from under you it was a shock who was on the phone? scott do you remember anything he said it was, dawn, i ve got bad news meg tried to kill herself. she s in the hospital.
akron police and say hey, i from a much smaller department but i think you ve got thi case wrong back in the mid 1980s? you had to approach it very carefully, but we have a goo working relationship with th police department in akron and you have to make the phone call instead of waving off thi small town detective, the akro cops were willing to help. i talked to a detective who have dealt with in the past. he said, it s not a cold case, it s a closed case if you want to have use your eyes to take a look a it, we ll send you a copy of the report and he did according to the original police report, meg purk was 24 years old and nine month pregnant on the day she died scott stated that the morning of march 18th, 1985, meg had woken up sick. scott had made a doctor appointment for her to go se her doctor later that morning, scott
to underscore his claim tha meg had hung herself, miffli says, scott gave one of he poems to the akron detective investigated her death at the very end of the poem it says and that she kille herself. and, what maybe that is the equivalent o a suicide note, or reflectiv of the way meg purk wa thinking exactly except, according to family members, that is something meg had written back in high school, and in no way represented he mood in the days before sh died scott, they felt, was usin that poem to promote his own theory, and her family wasn buying honestly, my first though is what did he do? right off the bat absolutely. you know, the investigators were getting information fro the family members that nobody could believe that meg had killed herself scott said he couldn believe it either, and was a shocked as anyone.
indictment of former president donald trump a decision from the manhatta district attorney s office it is expected for hush mone payments to porn star. now back to dateline welcome back to dateline . i m craig melvin as his house sat ravaged b flames, scott purk made series of startling claims t detective can mifflin. he and his partner quickly suspected scott words not only the arsonists, but a murderer. who killed his pregnant firs wife, meg. now, a stunning new developmen was about to add fuel to the fire back to josh mankiewicz with secrets from the grave amy remembers well the nigh her duplex apartment in stow ohio, caught fire. it was march 27th, 2010. a rare night off for the 2
based on what he saw inside th van, they feel the arrest wa made in the nick of time he s got a cooler full of pop, and on the front passenge seat of his vehicle was hi cell phone that had the batter removed so no one could trac him. suggesting he s about to hi the road we were certain he came bac to the apartment to grab a few clothes and he was going t head out purk was read his rights, and at that point, the man who would literally talk himself into serious trouble suddenl refused to say anything to investigators. after being processed, detective mifflin paid him a visit and delivered a messag scott purk probably never sa coming i let him know, you know, w are looking into his first wife s death he looks at me, and you coul tell all the color in his face drained right out, and that not what he expected he looked like he d seen a ghost.