dawn kracker said something similar happened, once went she and meg shared an apartment. i came home, and i saw on the floor, and there was a note on the coffee table, and it said she had tried to hang herself using the court from the mini blinds. did that note explain why meg wanted to take her own life? there wasn t an explanation other than she felt that everybody would be happier if she was gone. to underscore his claim that meg had hung herself, mifflin says, scott gave one of her investigated her death. at the very end of the poem, it says and that she killed herself. and, what? maybe that is the equivalent of a suicide note, or reflective of the way meg purk was thinking.
i don t remember seeing him at all. the day after the indictment was handed out, jim and another officer staked out scott s apartment. and we weren t there maybe 15, 20 minutes at the most and here comes scott s been pulling in. he pulls in front of his apartment. we pull in and block him from leaving. two and a half years after the fire at his home, 18 months since the fire at amy s duplex, scott purk was in custody, and based on what he saw inside the van, they feel the arrest was made in the nick of time. he s got a cooler full of pop, and on the front passenger seat of his vehicle was his cell phone that had the battery removed so no one could track him. suggesting he s about to hit the road? we were certain he came back to the apartment to grab a few clothes and he was going to
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 scott purk i d ask if you ever knew him? they did, and i ve never seen it before in my life. not somebody crossed paths with in your personal life, hospital, anywhere?
burglar. the ninja burglar. that was a thing in stow? i think in stow and surrounding cities, because he burglarized homes and businesses, and broke into cars, and stole things from cars. how many burglaries are we talking about? at least ten burglaries, four b and es. he d come into your bedroom and what you sleep and take your wallet or purse off your night stand. once arrested, scott confessed and starting in 1986, did six years in the joint. he used the time behind bars to earn a degree in criminal justice. scott fancied himself as a very smart individual, whenever i would talk to him. and i think it was part of his strategy to try and show me how smart he was. of course, it was possible state scott purk was not as smart as he thought he was. thanks to his own loose lips, scott had already made himself the prime suspect in not one,
his wife and child back in the eighties had been hit by a drunken driver. remember, purk told the detective his first wife took her own life. now, it seems he told at least one of his former lovers an entirely different story. he had told my girlfriend that he went over there and killed the guy, cut him up, and buried him. and she s like, oh , you know? they had sex, you know what i mean? and then he s confessing. the detective, of course, knew better. scott purk s first wife meg and their son died in akron, in 1985. her death was suicide by hanging, according to the coroner s report. 35 years later, meg s memory is still fresh for dawn kracker. dawn and meg were best buds in high school. she was quiet. people say she d remind them of janice joplin, in her hippie kind of bohemian attitude, but she was very much more reserved.