ms. haynes a $25,000 check and she signed over the deed to the house. vestigators found no evidence that haynes cashed the check and no trace of it was found in the rubble. shockingly, bryant was unwilling to issue another $25,000 check to ms. haynes' estate. >> we did have to sue him to get the $25,000. he wasn't going to pay that until we came up and did that. >> bryant denied having anything to do with the arson and murder, and he had a solid alibi. >> at the time of the fire, michael bryant did have an alibi. he was 20 miles away at a grill with his wife. then they had actually gone to a movie after that. >> bryant and his wife had the movie ticket stubs and restaurant receipts to prove it. >> his wife verified that this was true, and there was no reason that she was not being truthful to us. >> but something bothered investigators. one of bryant's co-workers called him that night after the movie to tell him about the fire. >> the call said that there was a fire at edith's house. >> oh my -- oh, my, are you serious? >> and michael started crying. >>