Secrets from the Grave

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True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1985, Scott Purk calls 911 to report that his pregnant wife, Meg Purk, has died by suicide. The case is closed until a suspicious house fire 24 years later leads police to question what really happened that day. Josh Mankiewicz reports.

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0:00.0	I got a call saying that the house was on fire.
0:04.0	The first thing they asked me was,
0:06.0	who would want to kill you?
0:08.0	Who would want to murder you?
0:10.0	And I just kind of looked at him like, what?
0:15.0	That fire was set to throw us off.
0:17.0	He was very calculating.
0:19.0	I couldn't believe it.
0:20.0	Was he watching me?
0:23.0	Years before, his wife killed herself.
0:25.0	Yes.
0:26.0	He claimed that she committed suicide just days before
0:29.0	she was due to get birth to their first child.
0:31.0	She was extremely excited for that baby.
0:33.0	She just wanted to be a mom.
0:35.0	This wasn't somebody who was thinking about suicide.
0:37.0	Exactly.
0:38.0	It made me wonder, okay, was he a murderer?
0:42.0	So now you're trying to prove a very old murder
0:44.0	with premed no evidence.
0:46.0	Correct.
0:47.0	Is he kind of gloating that he got away with it?
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