the city of stanford, connecticut denies liability for a deadly christmas day fire. the father of the victims disagreed and he wants justice. take a look. it was a christmas morning tragedy. nine-year-old lily, 7-year-old twins sarah and grace and their brandparents loemer and pauline johnson all killed in a quick moving fire engulfing their connecticut home. the girl s mother madonna badger and her boyfriend michael borcina managed to escape. the blaze ignited after he discarded fire place ashes near are an entryway close to the trash. at the time was house was undergoing renovations led by borcina, a contractor. now, matthew badger the girl s father plans to sue. he put the city of stanford on notice saying they are are to
sisters deep in the woods until a temperature from the public led investigators right to them. but instead of surrendering mayes took his own life. listen. officers immediately issued commands to adam mayes to show his hands. mayes pulled a semi automatic pistol from his waist it is band and shot himself in the head and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. other agents moved in to rescue the girls who were lying on the ground nearby. reporter: police say that the little girls witnessed the suicide. can you imagine? adam mayes cording to police shot and killed the little girl s mother jo ann bain and their older sister at their tennessee home on april 27 and then he and his wife drove the bodies to mississippi where they were buried in his backyard.
if we have a scenario where the mother s boyfriend who is a contractor moves the embers in a dangerous wea situation how s the city of stamford to blame? i understand your point as far as causation. there are contributing factors. you don t have to demonstrate that the city is 100% at fault here. judge jeanine: contributory negligence? exactly. what about causation. you have to prove there was a cause-and-effect. there is a major causal connection between the manner of the fire and the lack of the city doing their job issuing permits allowing them to move in there. and i hear are you, a good argument. it was broken the minute they spent the night in there without the proper smoke detectors and without the proper things being done. what jumps out at me is that the father doesn t see a deep pocket. the boyfriend doesn t have any money and there is nobody else to sue and now he is looking to the city and i think that is inappropriate.
filing the charges and very agress investigators in the voyeurism charges and child pornography charge. why weren t they, you know what, ann, you you didn t have to be creative to file charges against josh. you have the blood on the floor. the fan going. they know it is her house. and then the lies about my phone wasn t working. why couldn t they get creative in filing charge is against josh? i don t get it. i don t get it. you are so right, judge. and they had her blood and her will seaing if i die he killed me. in her safe deposit box. everything else, in fact, he took out $3.5 million in insurance. like the old double indemnity. they could have arrested and said they were going to. and the boys would have been alive. look at chuck and judy standing by with all the hope and faith all this time and got nothing but tragedy. judge jeanine: i couldn t
agree with you more, ann. my final question to chuck and judy, how do you move forward from here? we are not in control of anything. we are sitting back watching what happens as basically the cleanup happens now and it kind of seems pointless. we have other children and we have other things to do. we know that in susan is gone and we believe she is that the boys are with her. we just go on day after day. judge jeanine: so to chuck and judy our hearts go out to you 86 think the whole country followed this tragedy with you. and but that the ending were different. three men are claiming that john travolta made unwanted sexual advances. why their claims face an uphill battle. then, the christmas tree fire that killed three young girls and their grandparents. was is a freak accident or was the city of stamford,