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
Like an accident and it doesn even look particularly subtle. no. not at all the scene had all the earmarks of a fire at s house year earlier the disconnecting gas lines. gasoline poured around the foundation everything seemed to match i m not the brightest bul in the box you know but all of a sudden, the lik did come on. [laughs] i realized that the modu operandi, or the emerald, wa the same one block away? correct one block away and almost exactly a year before at almost the same time i the morning. for the past year, jim ha lidel analyze the evidence fro the blaze at scott purk s home he was convinced that fire had been an inside job and based on what he knew abou arsonists, this fire was likel set by the same person it s unusual for them t switch method once they have a pattern that works for them. find something that works.
you could still see the bel marks that go across her nec and then down towards her back so the bruises on her nec are going the wrong way? yes and they re not from a rope, the belt market is going dow back towards her lower back, which indicates someone behind you and they re pulling the rope they re pulling the belt towards them in a downward direction, to strangle you how was dismissed back in 1985 i don t know. that second autopsy als revealed other things that wer missed the first time, but wer no less damning for scott purk they found a bruise in th lower back, which was amazing. all those years later yes, and that was scott pur probably using his need to hol his wife down while he i strangling her with the belt to test their theory,
The will do something very very similar on each of thei fires. it had to be scott. we took that was also anothe scott was trying to show u that there is a serial arsonists in the neighborhood, but it wasn t him. because he left on the other side of town now investigators were no fooled mifflin and went lidel to th apartment complex where th purks had been living says their house burned down. the family car parked outsid and still warm on that freezin night reeked of gasoline and then in the apartment we find a gas can sitting righ inside the apartment and a pai of boots that had fresh bloo on them. that is just screaming to us we have found our guy. of course, had scott purk always been their guy. that said, the lawmen were still no closer to actuall
Gas meter. the idea was fire starts, the gasoline goes to the gas main, and possibly destroys th house, and everybody in it absolutely. mifflin found the pur family sheltered at a neighbor s house, and asked the father scott purk, to step outside. we actually went over to my unmarked detective bureau car, and we sat in my car, where it was nice and warm. the first question is, wh would want to burn down your house? who are your enemies exactly, right. scott said he really didn have any there was no one he knew tha was so angry at him that would want to try to harm him or his family so, the investigation basicall took off from there. perhaps it was the warm car on such a cold night, or maybe it was mifflin s warm manner either way, scott purk was feeling chatty he lost his job about eight or nine days prior to this