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
Who would want to murder you . And i just kind of looked at him like, what . I couldnt believe it. Was he watching me . That fire was set. Very calculating. Years before his wife killed herself. Yes. He claimed she committed suicide days before she was due to give birth to her first child. She was extremely excited for that baby. She wanted to be a mom. This wasnt somebody thinking about suicide. Exactly. It made me wonder was he a murderer . You are trying to prove a very old murder 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 apparent suicide. Her family struggled to understand why, but in a strange twist, a house fire set decades later would point to a possible ans
at them like what? i could not believe it. was he watching me? that fire was set to throw us off. he was very calculating. years before, his wife killed herself. yes, he claimed she committed suicide days before she was due to give birth to their first child. she was extremely excited for that first baby. it made me wonder okay, is he a murderer? so, now you are trying to prove a very old mother with pretty much no evidence. is a kind of gloating that he got away with it? he is thinking well, catch me if you can. we re going to do her and her family justice. we re 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 apparent suicide. her family struggled to understand why, but in a strange twist, a house fire sat decades later would point to a possible answer and put investigators on the trail toward the truth. here is josh m
as the two of them sat in hi car watching purk s home being reduced to ashes, purk kep talking. same things he probabl shouldn t have been saying to cop who already suspected this fire was arson he was heavily in debt an he made no bones about telling us that he had actually figure out if his house actuall burned down, he would only all about $70,000 in debt. it s essentially sing hinting i m not gonna find anything hide anything you re gonna find out monday right arson for insurance money too early to say, but a real possibility. he videotaped everything in his house. in case there was ever a fire. and he just did it recently an when i asked him how recent, h said, very recent and he was doing almost everything he can to mak himself sound like a suspect yes exactly. what was mr. purk up to a detective couldn t guess parked down the driveway, well
did six years in the joint he used the time behind bars t earn a degree in crimina justice. scott fancied himself as very smart individual, wheneve i would talk to him. and i think it was part of his strategy to try and show me ho smart he was of course, it was possibl state scott purk was not a smart as he thought he was thanks to his own loose lips scott had already made himself the prime suspect in not one but two criminal investigations so, imagine the investigator surprise when, in 2010, a year after the purk s house burne down from an arson fire, the same thing happened to another house just around the corner coming up - i got a call in the middl of the night saying the hous was on fire. another house in flames