for that baby. she wanted to be a mom. this wasn t somebody 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 apparent suicide. her family struggled to understand why, but in a strange twist, a house fire set decades later would point to a possible answer and put investigators on a trail towards the truth. here is josh mankiewicz with secrets from the grave . wander through any graveyard, and you will find them, mysteries etched in stone. lives cut tragically short by war, disease, misfortune, and sometimes murder. many who arrested in
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
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
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
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