Summary May 15, 1995. 10 year old Cassie Kemp and her brother Eric are picked up after school by their stepfather, John Veysey. When they get home, Cassie races for the door of their Galena, IL home. As she walks into the kitchen, she sees her mother, Patricia Veysey, dead on the floor. An autopsy determines Patricia died of a heart defect. After John Veysey collects insurance money, Gerald and Betty DeBruyne, Patricia's parents, become suspicious that her death wasn't an accident and that Veysey may have caused it. But since they have no proof, the grieving parents have no where to turn. That is until January 14, 1998 2:17 a.m. It's a cold January night in the small northwest Chicago suburb of Cary when Deserie Beetle and her young son are rescued after being trapped in their burning home. John T. Veysey tells police and firefighters his harrowing tale of how he escaped the fire but couldn't rescue his wife and son. But within hours of the fire, the fire and police departments in Cary get phone calls from Jerry and Betty DeBruyne and others telling them that this is not John Veysey's first fire and that investigators should take a closer look at his past. Sgt. Ron Delelio takes up the scent and finds Veysey at the heart of a number of suspicious fires and even a death. Here is the history of what he finds. December 12, 1991 - A house fire guts John Veysey's gray raised ranch home perched atop a hill in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin.

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