loud boom. it was like we heard an explosion. oh, you did yeah. and that s what woke us up it s real cold at the moment purk said he scrambled to get everybody up and out by the time the first fire units rolled up, the purk home was a roaring bonfire. firefighters smelled gasolin as soon as they got out of their trucks so a call immediately went out to stow police detective ken mifflin. when i got there, i saw the fire department still puttin out the blaze. someone had taken probably a pipe wrench to disconnect th gas line and it was blowing out natural gas. it was a very large roarin sound. at that point, the ga hadn t ignited no. it could have possibly blown up the person who said to the fir poured gasoline all the way to the gas meter and on top of th
arson case, even for one that seems open and shut. proving a decades old suicide that might actually be homicide? well, that is more a matter of timing and look. in the case of meg purk, the stars aligned in the summer of 2011, one detective ken mifflin walked into the office of summit county ohio prosecutor sherri bevan walsh. i actually still remember when detective ken mifflin came to my office, and he was basically asking for my assistance to file a motion to exhumed the body and reopen the case. he was pretty confident it was not a suicide, and this was a murder. my guess is you guys have plenty of open cases that are, as of that moment, unsolved? you probably didn t need one in a closed file reopened right away? we have, unfortunately, a lot of homicides in summit county, ohio, and we were probably, i would estimate at that time, already working on another 50 homicide cases when the detective from stow came to
their trucks. so a call immediately went out to stow police detective ken mifflin. when i got there, i saw the fire department still putting out the blaze. someone had taken probably a pipe wrench to disconnect the gas line. and it was blowing out natural gas. it was a very large roaring sound. at that point, the gas hadn t ignited? no. it could have possibly blown up. the person who said to the fire poured gasoline all the way to the gas meter and on top of the gas meter. the idea was fire starts, the gasoline goes to the gas main, and possibly destroys the house, and everybody in it? absolutely. mifflin found the purk family sheltered at a neighbor s house, and asked the father, scott purk, to step outside. we actually went over to my unmarked detective bureau car, and we sat in my car, where it was nice and warm. the first question is, who
proving a decades old suicide that might actually be homicide? well, that is more a matter of timing and look. in the case of meg purk, the stars aligned in the summer of 2011, one detective ken mifflin walked into the office of summit county ohio prosecutor sherri bevan walsh. i actually still remember when detective ken mifflin came to my office, and he was basically asking for my assistance to file a motion to exhumed the body and reopen the case. he was pretty confident it was not a suicide, and this was a murder. my guess is you guys have plenty of open cases that are, as of that moment, unsolved? you probably didn t need one in a closed file reopened right away? we have, unfortunately, a lot of homicides in summit county, ohio, and we were probably, i would estimate at that time, already working on
their trucks. so a call immediately went out to stow police detective ken mifflin. when i got there, i saw the fire department still putting out the blaze. someone had taken probably a pipe wrench to disconnect the gas line. and it was blowing out natural gas. it was a very large roaring sound. at that point, the gas hadn t ignited? no. it could have possibly blown up. the person who said to the fire poured gasoline all the way to the gas meter and on top of the gas meter. the idea was fire starts, the gasoline goes to the gas main, and possibly destroys the house, and everybody in it? absolutely. mifflin found the purk family sheltered at a neighbor s house, and asked the father, scott purk, to step outside. we actually went over to my unmarked detective bureau car, and we sat in my car, where it was nice and warm. the first question is, who