you seen one, you seen both of them. they went everywhere together. and jean had no financial motive. jim s life insurance amounted to less than $40,000. but local prosecutors were convinced this was an open-and-shut case. the theory was she saw the opportunity to get rid of him and poured him and lit it, and then made it seem or tried to tell everyone that it was an accident. the defense asked john lentini, a nationally known fire investigator, for his opinion. with respect to the quality of the fire investigation, it ranks up there with the worst that i ve ever seen. and i ve seen a lot of fire investigations, bad fire investigations in my day. this was over the top. local investigators suspected accelerants had been used to start the fire.
the year. but in january of 2003, there was an unusual cold snap with temperatures below freezing. . citrus growers used kerosene heaters to save their orange crop. and jean and jim long used a kerosene heater in the workshop of their home so the pipes wouldn t freeze. but something went terribly wrong. when firemen arrived, the house was totally ablaze. jean long had escaped the fire, but her husband, jim, was trapped inside. my father-in-law came to the door to wake us. he said that he said there s a fire at your dad s house, and it s bad. it was engulfed in flames. a very shocking moment.
but lentini discovered that the workshop housed containers of fuel for jim s tree-trimming equipment. in the shop, we had vehicles and we had tanks of acetylene. we had tanks of propane. we had containers of liquid fuels. he had chainsaws in there, lots of papers, clothing, lots of combustibles. and when it went up, it just really went up. and lentini disputed police claims that there were pour patterns around jim s body. he said the heat of the fire made such a determination impossible. once you get to full-room involvement, you re going to get all kinds of patterns that are easily misinterpreted. it happens all of the time. i ve created them by mistake. i ve created them on purpose. the homicide investigator thought that the position of jim s body was suspicious. we felt like, from the very beginning, based on the way he
around jim s body, the type of patterns which result from the use of an accelerant. to him, it suggested that james long had been lying on the floor and gasoline or an accelerant had been poured over him intentionally, and he had been set afire. and jim s autopsy revealed even more evidence. that he was unconscious before the fire started.
circumstantial case. felt like we had eliminated any other reasonable hypothesis for this death. the day after her husband s funeral, jean long was charged with arson and murder. jean told her lawyers there was an explosion in that workshop and that there must be evidence in the ashes to prove it. where you also find her. a romantic fumble at this romantic chateau . leads to these fine humans. who you take to this eco-lodge . to get seriously close to nature. then you check in with her at this tropical paradise. before soaring over this castle resort with your father-in-law. who finally seems to like you. life can be like that when you get it booking right. booking.com booking.yeah! i am rich.