but that's what you told me, ms. jean. -- i'm trying to put together what you said -- i'm trying to make it make sense, and it don't. >> it doesn't make sense to me. >> no, it doesn't. so how can you expect it to make sense to me? >> but the defense attorneys use the same tape to show something else. major overbey employed a standard police technique when he ended the interrogation and left the room with the tape machine still running. in this situation, a suspect will often say something incriminating. [ sobbing ] >> in this case, she said something else. [ sobbing ] >> oh, god, help me. help me to explain to him. you know i didn't do it. >> what major overbey had hoped to happen i think worked against him. i think he was in hopes that he would say something to hurt herself -- incriminate herself, and what she did, she reached out to god and started begging for help to give her the strength to endure that hostile interview. >> the defense claimed that the fire was accidental, that jim long mistakenly filled the hot kerose