again was the right thing to do. exactly. it was a tough conversation to have with i went and spoke with mixed mom. she believed with the rest of the family it wasn t a suicide. exactly. and they were very supportive of all of us to do an examination. with meg s family on board, the prosecutor asked a court to order her examination. we definitely needed the body of meg purk to be exhumed for the medical examiner. if the body is not in good shape, could this go forward? if it had been too decomposed, it s unlikely this case would ever have been prosecuted. while the detective pressed forward, that summer, lidl report up the murder investigations in august 2011 scott purk was indicted for two arson s. the fire in his home, and the one at amy salvage eo s duplex. can we show you of photo of
the original autopsy photos. what did you see? what stood out in my mind from the autopsy photos was on meg s neck there were lines on her neck that looked like a belt mark was on her neck, not a rope mark. the detective figured the only way to find out what had actually happened in that apartment in 1985, was to learn all he could about scott and meg purk. coming up something disturbing about meg s past. there was an on the coffee table and it said that she had i tried to hang herself. and something dark from scott s. he was an inter burglar. then in your burglar? he would actually commit burglary dress up as a ninja. how many burglaries are we talking about? at least ten burglaries. he would come into your bedroom and what you sleep and then take your wallet or purse off your night stand. when dateline continues.
so, dawn was stunned when on march 19th, 1985, she heard meg had been rushed to the hospital. and then i get the phone call, and . kind of like the four 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. they don t know if she is going to make it. she did not. as for suicide, well, there had been times before she married scott, when meg had spoken of taking her own life. there was an incident one time where she locked herself in a bathroom, and said she was going to cut her wrists. this was over at a friends
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 at 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 months pregnant on the day she died. scott stated that the morning of march 18th, 1985, had meg woken up sick. scott had made a doctor s appointment for her to go see her doctor. later that morning, scott said he was taking a bath when he saw meg walk past the bathroom door. he gets out of the bathtub, about for five minutes later, and low and behold he sees meg hanging from a rope in the stairwell of their apartment. the story is that he cuts meg down and tries to do some cpr? yes, once he saw meg hanging, then he grabbed a steak knife from one of the tables nearby and cut the rope, and then he
detective can mifflin. he and his partner quickly suspected scott words not only the arsonists, but a murderer. who killed his pregnant first wife, meg. now, a stunning new development was about to add fuel to the fire. back to josh mankiewicz with secrets from the grave . amy remembers well the night her duplex apartment in stow, ohio, caught fire. it was march 27th, 2010. a rare night off for the 24 year old intensive care nurse. i was at my boyfriends. i got a call in the middle of the night from a neighbor saying that the house was on fire. we were only about two minutes away, so drove over very fast. amy says she jumped out and ran toward the firefighters who were working her half of the duplex. where the worst damage was.