him like, what i couldn t believe it. was he watching me that fire was set very calculating years before his wife kille herself. yes he claimed she committed suicide days before she was du to give birth to her first child. she was extremely excited for that baby. she wanted to be a mom this wasn t somebod thinking about suicide exactly it made me wonder was he a murderer you are trying to prove a murderer with pretty much no evidence correct is he kind of gloating he got away with it he is thinking, well, catch me if you can. we are going to do her and her family justice we are going to solve this murder hello, and welcome to dateline meg purk was a young mom to be over the moon to be having her first child. then, just days before her due date, she died of an apparen suicide. her family struggled t understand why, but in a strange twist, a house fire se decades later would point to a possible answer and pu investigators on a trail towards the tru
texan, who everyone seemed t love caring, wondering compassionate. so why did she have the strange permission actually always felt like she was gonna die young. the call came on blac friday they said that ashlea apartment was on fire. when the car picked up, i m heart broke. and this fire was n accident they conducted surveillance at ashlea apartment. they re going back to the place where ashlea worked? they were going after ten of thousands of dollars. but was money they only motive or was there something else? there were a lot of rumor going around that ended up being true couldn t believe anyone did that to her. it was just pure evil. hello and welcome t dateline ashlea harris had no shortag of admirers. family, friends, coworkers even her ex son her praises. so when she was found dead after a suspicious fir consumed her apartment, police were baffled this was no accident but where the clues to who killed ashlea now up in smoke? it would t
we may never know why scot purk murdered meg, or why he mentioned her to the detective mifflin that night, as the watched his house burn we do know that if he hadn t meg s secret would likely have remained buried with her i got into this job to help people, and there s nothin better than making a famil happy with an outcome for case and in this case, it s beyon happy. it s beyond words. everybody they can finally rest in peace that this has been resolved th way it should have been. that s all for this edition of dateline . i m craig melvin thank you for watching hello, i m andrea canning and this is dateline actually was a wild and fre