they did, and i ve never seen it before in my life. not somebody crossed paths with in your personal life, hospital, anywhere? 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
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
kill you? who would want to murder you? and i just kind of looked at him like, what? what are you talking about? and then they asked me, don t you smell the gasoline? and that s when i stopped and i realized that that s all you could smell, was the strong odor of gasoline. you involved in anything illegal? no. anything extramarital? no. anything that s going to make somebody angry enough to make you make them want to do away with you? nothing that i could think of at all. investigators heard the seam story from the older woman who lived in the other half of the complex. jim lidel was there that night. he says even the landlady was checked out to see if she might have had her own building torched for the insurance money. obviously we had to go look at that, at her. she lived nearby, but she was fine. financially, she was stable and
one block away. and almost exactly a year before? at almost the same time in the morning. for the past year, jim had lidel analyze the evidence from the blaze at scott purk s home. he was convinced that fire had been an inside job. and based on what he knew about arsonists, this fire was likely set by the same person. it s unusual for them to switch method once they have a pattern that works for them. find something that works. the will do something very, very similar on each of their fires. it had to be scott. we took that was also another scott was trying to show us 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 not fooled. mifflin and went lidel to the apartment complex where the purks had been living says their house burned down. the family car parked outside and still warm on that freezing night reeked of gasoline.
[laughs] i realized that the modus operandi, or the emerald, was the same. one broccoli? correct. one block away. and almost exactly a year before? at almost the same time in the morning. for the past year, jim had lidel analyze the evidence from the blaze at scott purk s home. he was convinced that fire had been an inside job. and based on what he knew about arsonists, this fire was likely set by the same person. it s unusual for them to switch method once they have a pattern that works for them. find something that works. the will do something very, very similar on each of their fires. it had to be scott. we took that was also another scott was trying to show us 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 not fooled. mifflin and went lidel to the