leidel: he would dress up in dark clothing and then break into women's homes, single women.lly, he would take, you know, car keys, things like that, but he would take their underwear, typically, as his trophies, i guess, for lack of a better term. narrator: this string of burglaries, for which scott served seven years in prison, happened just months after the suicide of his first wife, margaret. there was probably no connection to be made, but detective mifflin couldn't get over an unusual exchange he had with scott the night of the fire. mifflin: scott and i are having this conversation about his house literally burning down right in front of us, and scott says to me, just out of the blue, you know, that he was married back in the early '80s and his wife, his first wife, who was nine months pregnant, had hung herself, thereby killing her and her baby, their first child together. so, he just brought that up out of the blue. no reason for the conversation. i had no idea. nothing -- i didn't even know scott purk prior to first coming to the scene. narrator: detective mifflin d