WEBVTT - 2. Boom 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.360 Missing Arizona contains graphic depictions of violence and may not 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:10.640 be suitable for all listeners. April tenth, two thousand and one, am. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.960 Exploded off of Hollie and a fire and a fire. 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.720 You're good, big fire, get the big fire. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:19.880 You bet I can do it. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.520 The house is exploded and ignited on fire. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:25.880 Who hi are you telling about the fire? 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:27.639 As nobody on the way. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:29.480 Okay, we have the whole on the way. 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.080 I'm just telling to make sure you're good. 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:32.320 They come in on Hollie. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.480 They get lost every damn time with the fire. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.040 They's gonna come in on Hollie. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:36.880 Okay, thank you. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:37.880 It's told a second. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:46.320 It's so many folly seventy four goodness, thank you. 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:48.919 There is still no fire equipment. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:49.840 He's okay, ma'am. 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:50.559 We're on our way. 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.920 There's nothing you can do to make a little faster. Okay, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.160 you're on our wing. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:00:59.960 Wasn't going on? 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.880 It's a big fire, really calling me. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:04.080 It's just like blow up. 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:05.240 Okay, one's on fire. 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.160 The whole house, the whole hell, whole house is burning up. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:10.800 And I want to hear them. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.240 Going three w It isn't around seventy fourth and. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.240 Oh yeah, and there it is whole house in quoting. 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:19.360 Okay, we do have. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:20.839 Police the fire on the way, where there are people 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:22.119 outside the house, Yes. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.680 There are no Probably did. 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:26.319 We have one. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.000 Cordia web cars? 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:29.199 I'll maybe one's done. 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:30.559 He could not say how many. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:31.480 Many of those. 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:31.920 They're all this. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:42.160 From iHeartRadio and Neon thirty three. I'm John Walsac, and 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.479 this is Missing in Arizona, the story of a man 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.080 who disappeared after allegedly killing his wife and kids, blowing 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.680 up their suburban home and escaping into the wilderness. Twenty 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.840 three years later, I'm hunting Robert Fisher and I need 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:04.440 your help. So we're turning for the first time onto 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.400 Robert Fisher's street, pulling up into the cul de Sac, 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.600 one hundred and eleven degrees out. You want to park 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.440 in front of the stone wall. It's always amazing the 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:18.400 simple items that survived catastrophe, the resilient relics, stubbornly dotting 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.600 desecrated landscapes, refusing to yield. At the end of North 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.160 seventy fourth place in Scottsdale, Arizona, there sits a little 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:30.320 stone wall. It's a gravestone beyond which three people died 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.760 it's a vital witness, but it cannot speak, and it's 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.040 an eternal marker of a suburban fabric. One man found 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.160 so suffocating he slashed and shot and burned his way out. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.440 Long after the family who lived twenty feet away died, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.200 long after most neighbors moved, Long after a new home 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.160 replaced the one that exploded, this little stone wall remains. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.440 You see it in a home video from nineteen eighty nine. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:03.080 Hey Babe, Hey, Robert Fisher stands in his driveway, barefoot, 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.239 cradling his one year old daughter, Brittany, as twilight takes 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.560 hold just over his right shoulder. The stone wall. You 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.280 see it too in crime scene photos from two thousand 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:17.440 and one. Blackened beams rise from charred, smoldering rubble as 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.240 investigators circle what remains of the Fisher house. Orange fire 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.600 hoses spaghetti across cul de Sac pavement under a gray 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.560 sky stamped with faded, fluffy white clouds. A silver pickup 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:32.200 truck sits burned and blistered under a half collapsed carport roof. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:38.040 And there then, as now, the stone wall. This wall, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.160 maybe two feet tall, is the line that separates the 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.440 Fishers from their next door neighbor. Around ten pm on 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.400 April ninth, two thousand and one, the neighbor hears Robert 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.440 and Mary fighting. Forty minutes later, Robert gets into Mary's 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.560 Toyota fore Runner and heads to a nearby ATM, where 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.400 a camera captures grainy, black and white footage of him 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.360 pulling out two hundred and eighty dollars, then driving away 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:05.720 poof gone forever. This is the final sighting of Robert, 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.240 the final sighting of Mary's suv until a camper finds 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:13.520 it ten days later, abandoned in a remote forest. At least, 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.560 that's what we've been told for twenty three years by 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.080 the police, media and FBI. The leading theory is that 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.720 Robert is grabbing cash and fleeing town, that he already 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.159 killed Mary and the kids. This is a critical detail. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.200 It means he has a ten hour jump on the cops. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.039 April ninth, ten forty two pm, Robert's at the ATM 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.680 April tenth, eight forty two am. His house explodes, a 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:44.279 ten hour gap. Except this timeline is wrong. I found 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.880 a new confirmed sighting. Real quick, let me take you 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.600 back to the nineteen nineties. Listen to this tiny but 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.360 important clip from a Fisher home video. Mary films Brittany 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.320 peddling a small bike down their cul. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:57.920 De Sac dip. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.440 You can turn around in that driveway. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.880 That driveway two houses down by two thousand and one. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:05.920 It belongs to a man who agreed to speak to 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.080 me on the condition I not use his real name. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.400 Let's call him Peter. He works long hours in the 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:12.599 food service industry. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:14.719 Sometimes I'd leave to the three o'clock in. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.120 The morning April tenth, two thousand and one. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.919 When I got up, he had one vehicle underneath to carport, 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:23.839 and he had her vehicle on the street. 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.840 At about three thirty in the morning's when I left, 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.480 that vehicle was still on the street. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.800 His vehicle was pulled underneath to carport. Peter sees both 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.280 Robert's truck and Mary's suv at the Fisher house at 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:42.000 three thirty am, which means we can say definitively for 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.080 the first time that Robert returned home from the ATM 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.240 the previous night. This tightens the timeline by five hours 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.640 and takes me completely by surprise. When I agree to 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.240 meet Peter, I don't expect much maybe some anecdotes about 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.440 the Fishers. Instead, three thirty in the morning and both 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.320 vehicles was still in I asked him repeatedly, if he's sure. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.640 I do know that it was zero When I last this, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.560 I'd pull out and look right at it and then 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:09.680 take off go to Ord. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.840 But Peter, are you one hundred percent certain and hositive? 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.920 Peter has never been interviewed by the media or more importantly, 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.560 law enforcement, despite living only eighty feet from the Fishers. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.240 He provides us two new clues. One a sighting of 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.600 both vehicles at the Fisherhouse at three thirty am on 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.600 April tenth, two thousand and one, and two how the 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:32.559 vehicles are parked. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.000 The truck was in the driveway. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.840 A SEV was on the street. This is abnormal. Peter 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.679 usually sees Mary's SUV in the driveway and Robert's truck 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:42.279 on the street. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.040 This day it was yapposite. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.080 A different neighbor, the one who heard Robert and Mary fighting, 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.720 tells police the same thing. Why does this tiny detail matter? 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.720 I'll tell you later. April tenth, two thousand and one, 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.080 a twenty year old Alicia Keys releases her debut single 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.720 Fallen at eight forty two two the Fisher House. Exwait, 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.760 hold up, I lied, I told you I found one 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.000 new witness, but I actually found two. I have another 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.960 one for you, and he tightens up the timeline even further. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.120 His name is Bud Wolf. Unfortunately he died in twenty 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.320 twenty one, so instead I meet with his daughter, Jenna. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.240 We're learning now that the very last person to ever 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:26.120 see Mary Fisher's SUV or any sign therefore, Robert Fisher, 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:26.760 was your dad. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.840 Wow, that's incredible. 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.160 Jenna often joins her dad as he makes repeated early 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.160 morning visits to the Fisher's cul de sac. 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.520 I know this show was pretty dark. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.240 On April tenth, two thousand and one, Jenna is not 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.120 with her dad as he delivers newspapers. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.440 He would have picked him up and then drove to Scottsdale, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.920 so I had to put him there between four and five. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.080 Bud Wolf is in Scottsdale by four or five am. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.920 But when exactly does he pass the Fisher House? What 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.000 does he see? And how do I even know this? 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.200 Last year I obtained a previously unreported memo written by 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.040 a Scotts Sale police officer. Here it is read by 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.920 a voice actor on four eleven oh one, the day 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.840 after the house explodes. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.440 At zero five zero five hours five oh five am. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.720 While working traffic control at seventy fourth Place in Holly, 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.640 monitoring the northbound entrance to seventy fourth Place, I observed 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.160 a paper carrier approach my location. I contacted the paper 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.679 carrier Arizona Republic, who identified himself verbally as Bud Wolf. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.200 Bud stated that he needed to deliver five newspapers on 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.400 seventy fourth Place north of Holly. Bud inquired if he 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.559 should simply walk in, as northbound seventy fourth Place was 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.559 taped off with yellow crime scene tape. I advised Bud 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.760 to go ahead and walk into the neighborhood. When Bud returned, 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.880 he stated that yesterday he accidentally delivered a newspaper to 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.520 the house that burned. He added that he delivered this 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:48.720 paper by mistake. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.679 At zero five thirty hours five thirty am. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.600 Bud stated that on four to ten oh one, at 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.520 zero five thirty, he noticed that the large pickup that 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.280 is now parked under the car port and burned was 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.720 parked in the driveway, but the rear of the vehicle 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.000 was sticking out blocking the sidewalk. Bud added that there 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.720 was another vehicle parked in front of the truck under 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.000 the carport. At that time, Bud described the other vehicle 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.840 as a white car possibly. Bud said that he wasn't 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.760 positive about the vehicle type. About two minutes after he 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.720 delivered the paper, he realized his mistake. Bud then went 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.760 back and retrieved the paper. Bud left the area. Bud 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.520 did not see any activity in the area on that morning. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.360 After Bud left, I noticed that I forgot to get 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.959 Bud's state of birth. I called Bud's cell phone. I 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.920 spoke to Bud and got his birth date. During the conversation, 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.240 Bud volunteered that he now remembered that the vehicle that 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.839 he saw in front of the truck was not a car, 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.920 but a white suv. Bud was not sure what type 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.559 of suv it was. Bud added that it appeared to 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.199 be an older model. Bud said that the vehicle was 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:50.600 definitely not a van. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:56.240 Signed by Officer Abernathy, Badge number seven zero four. Let's 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.679 pause for a minute and take stock of what we've learned. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.400 One hbor who hears Robert and Mary arguing at ten 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:06.360 pm on April ninth, sees their vehicles parked abnormally. Mary's 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.120 fore Runner in the driveway Robert's truck in the street. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.280 Two Peter, a different neighbor, sees the same thing when 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.320 he leaves for work at three thirty AM on April tenth. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:21.040 Three Budwolf, a newspaper delivery man, sees Robert's truck and 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.280 what appears to be Mary's four runner at five thirty AM. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.240 So for the first time in twenty three years, we've 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:31.240 narrowed down the case timeline significantly. Robert Fisher does not 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.400 immediately flee after visiting the ATM on April ninth. In fact, 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.199 he's still home seven hours later at five thirty AM. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.880 On April tenth. The house explodes at eight forty two AM, 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:47.160 so Robert flees sometime between five thirty and eight forty two. 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.120 But we can narrow it down even further because Mary 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.599 Fisher is supposed to pick up a neighbor's son for 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.160 a school carpool at seven thirty. When she doesn't show up, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.920 that neighbor looks out a window and sees Robert's truck, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.760 but not Mary's forerunner. So with two new witnesses, we've 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.199 narrowed down when Robert flees to between five thirty and 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.960 seven thirty. What else can we deduce. Well, the sun 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.400 rises in Scottsdale on April tenth at six oh three am, 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.080 but civil twilight starts at five thirty seven, meaning there's 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.440 already a good bit of light in the sky. Robert 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.080 likely wants to leave quickly now to avoid neighbors and sunlight. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.400 My best guess is that he flees shortly after Bud 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.199 Wolf sees both vehicles at the house at five thirty 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.000 Is it really creepy to think that that morning Robert 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.319 Fisher would have been home when your dad was slivering 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:36.760 the paper? 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:37.920 Extremely creepy. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.560 Extremely, There's no reason to doubt, Bud Wolf. He shares 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.199 his story with a police officer the day after the 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:49.040 Fisher house explodes, then dies, having never spoken to the media. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.320 He has no reason to lie. Would you describe your 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:53.880 dad as a trustworthy person? 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:55.480 Oh? Absolutely, yeah. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.439 What do you say he had a good memory? He 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:58.120 did at the time. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:11:58.440 Yes. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.480 Towards the end of light is when with the brain 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.240 cancer is memory started deteriorating. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.319 But during that period his memory was incredible. 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.120 Would there be any reason to doubt an account that 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:10.880 he gave the police. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:11.760 Oh not at all. 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.960 Now let's turn to what Budwolf sees not just when 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.240 Bud sees Robert's truck parks behind what he first describes 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.360 as a quote white car, possibly and shortly thereafter as 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.920 a quote white suv. Mary's fore Runner is silver, not white. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.720 Is it possible that Bud sees an entirely different vehicle 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.880 parked at the Fisher House. Yes, but that's extremely unlikely. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.640 The most plausible explanation is that Bud's memory is good 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.600 but not perfect, that he recalls a silver suv spotted 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.360 during twilight as white. So here's the new case timeline. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.280 Ten pm, a neighbor hears Robert and Mary arguing. The 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:57.240 neighbor sees their vehicles parked abnormally, Robert's truck in the driveway, 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:02.200 Mary's suv in the street. Forty two pm, Robert withdraws 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.480 two hundred and eighty dollars from a nearby atm three 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.480 thirty am, Peter, a different neighbor, also sees Robert's truck 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.080 in the driveway and Mary's fore Runner in the street. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.880 Five thirty am Budwolf, the newspaper delivery man, sees Mary's 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.040 four Runner in the driveway, parked in front of Robert's truck, 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.480 which is now jutting out into the cul de sac. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.760 Here's why this is important. It means that between three 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:31.079 thirty and five thirty, someone shuffles the vehicles Robert's truck 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.920 out of the driveway, Mary's suv into the driveway, Robert's 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:38.319 truck behind the suv. By the time the house explodes, 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.319 Robert's truck is under the car port and Mary's fore 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.160 runner is gone. Meaning after Budwolf leaves around five thirty, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.960 someone shuffles the vehicles again, pulling out the truck, pulling 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.760 out the suv, putting the truck under the car port, 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.079 and driving away in the suv. What the heck is 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.680 going on here? To recap, between three thirty and seven 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.880 thirty am, we have a game of musical cars. Someone 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.240 pulls Robert's truck out of the driveway, marries suv into 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.880 the driveway, Robert's truck behind the suv, the truck out again, 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.920 the suv out, the truck back, and then drives away 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:16.400 in the suv. This is extremely bizarre, especially because Robert's 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.200 truck is allowed diesel and the cul de sac is small. 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.920 It's also a lot for a single person to pull 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.720 off by themselves. I'll get to that in a later 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:52.200 episode Stay tuned. So your family owned the land on 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.680 which the Fisher home was built originally, and how long 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.160 has that property been in your family. 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.000 My father bought the property in twenty nine and he 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.240 moved there about nineteen thirty. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.560 On that forty acres, what was farmed. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.560 Mostly cotton, sorghum, and some citrus. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.800 Mike Wilmith now owns only two of the original forty acres, 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.480 but those two acres and his house are a extremely 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:22.160 valuable and b directly behind the Fisher property. On April tenth, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.600 two thousand and one, Mike is in bed only one 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.400 hundred and fifty feet from the Fisher house. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.240 I was just beginning to come out of sleep. That's 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.120 sort of to my laid zone. And I heard the 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.920 explosion and I went, that sounded like an explosion. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.320 And you didn't immediately hop out of bed. It sounds 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:37.560 like you stayed in bed for a minute. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.520 I stayed in bed for a few minutes until he 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.680 heard the helicopters and I'm like, Okay, now I gotta 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:43.560 go check what's going on. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.120 I don't blame you, your Dralsey, Ye're waking up. It's 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.280 not how you want to start your morning news. Helicopters 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:55.280 circle overhead, broadcasting live watching at home. One woman immediately 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.800 recognizes the burning house. Jan Howell, Robert Fisher's mom. She 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.000 calls nine one. Here's the recreation of that call. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:06.400 Rural Metro Fire Department. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.920 Yes, this is missus Howell, my son, Robert Fisher's house. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.240 I just saw blow up on television. I want to 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.040 make sure see what's happening there. 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.920 It's okay, and this is your son's house. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.160 Yes, okay, just a minute, ma'am, Yes, okay, I'm going 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:22.320 to have somebody contact you. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.040 Was there anybody? Was your son out of town or 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:25.760 was he in town? 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.040 Do you know he's supposed to I just called the hospital. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.720 He works at Mayo Hospital, Uh huh. And I called 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.720 him and they didn't hear from him. And then I 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.280 got his mother in law on the line and she 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.080 said a neighbor had called the church and said the 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.240 house exploded with gas. And okay, and on television I 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:42.960 saw his truck in the driveway. 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.280 Okay, now we're not sure. You said the person who 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.280 owns this house his last name is Fisher. Yes, okay, 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.680 we're not showing that as being his house. No, okay, 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.160 never mind, all right. All I can do is how 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.080 many people were in the family or that lived in 0:16:58.120 --> 0:16:58.480 the house. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.760 There's a boy ten years old, a girl thirteen years old, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.280 the wife Mary, and my son who's forty. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.000 Okay, so there's four people that live in the house, yes, 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:07.720 and a dog. 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.359 The explosion is violent, rattling houses for a half mile 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.960 in every direction, sending flames shooting twenty feet into the air. 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.000 The most direct witness is a man named Max Moody 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.280 working on a nearby rooftop. He's slammed by a deafening 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.120 boom as debris flies out and a column of black 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:29.000 smoke climbs into the sky. Flames flare from shattered windows. 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:33.000 The first cop to arrive is Scottsdale Police Officer Jay Hawkins. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:37.080 As he pulls up, there's a series of smaller secondary explosions, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:41.000 probably ammunition. Neighbors screamed that there are people in the house. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.679 Firefighters speed to the scene, as through reporters, including Tom Zohner. 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:46.040 So. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.080 I was working as a reporter at the Arizona Republic, 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.240 which is the statewide daily newspaper, and on the morning 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.080 of April tenth, two thousand and one, I walked out 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.200 of my house to go to my car to go 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.159 to work, and I saw a plume of smoke on 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.800 the horizon and it looked like a gigantic fire and 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.800 the smoke was black. Whatever it was was still engaged, 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.439 and so instead of going straight to work, I decided 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.240 to swing by the fire and I arrived to the 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.440 house of Robert Fisher, which was completely on fire. I 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.320 was the first reporter at the scene, and the fire 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.520 crews were already working the blaze. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.080 The scott Steel Police Department is here too. Detective TJ. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:28.040 Duran arrives to a fire blasted Norman Rockwell painting nice 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.360 little house, nice little house, nice little house, and then 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:33.399 a pile of smoldering rubble. 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.520 The damage was incredible. We were kind of like, what 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.320 the fuck caused the explosion? 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:43.280 Juranne guesses correctly, natural gas. He and other detectives, including 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.560 John Kirkham and Joe LaDuke, circle the house trying to 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:48.920 decipher this enigmatic molten mess. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.560 We went around the backyard, so the fire had started 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.800 and then it exploded. It blew out the back walls 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.640 of the house. Now you had a four feet high 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.200 brick wall where you could look in and John and 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.320 I were looking in and there were two bedrooms we 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.560 were able to look into, and we could see that 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.480 there were bodies on a bed, and John and I 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.480 looked at each other and we basically said, this is 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.679 definitely a homicide. We knew that the fire was burning 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.200 and the bodies looked small, so we knew they were kids. 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.280 Normal cases, somebody's going to wake up and move. They 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.520 were still lying there like they were sleeping. I've been 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.159 on investigations where a child died in the fire, and 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.080 when we found the child in the house, they were 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.480 in the fetal position. You tend to curl up because 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.760 of the heat. These bodies weren't like that. 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.600 To Duran's dismay, news of the bodies leaks to the media. 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.240 Soon it became apparent that it wasn't just a house 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.000 fire but a triple homicide. 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:51.159 Detectives fight to keep gory details private, and they're successful 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:55.320 for now, but they're already feeling intense pressure. This will 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.640 clearly be a high profile case, and their crime scene 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.920 is burning on live teev as someone leaks secrets and 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.600 family and friends of the victims descend on the cul 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:05.000 de Sac. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.879 Someone called me and said I think Mary's house blew up. 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:12.240 Mary's friend Kim Davidson. 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:12.679 So, what do you mean? 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:14.720 And they said, I just heard there's a house and 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:16.760 scuffs of the blew up. We think it's Mary's. So 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:18.920 I went to the house and there was police in 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.200 front of it. Her sister, mRNA was sitting in the 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.240 police cart and there was an ambulance there and the 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.920 house was in shambles. The next thing I knew, I 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.240 overheard the police officers say there's three bodies and their 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.720 two children. I just kind of went into shock. 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.840 At SUPERI Middle School, principal Diane Wells calls an emergency 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.080 meeting of Britney Fisher's teachers, including Miss Honey, who we 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:41.800 heard from in episode one, and. 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.119 Then the police come in and they're like, there's been 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.960 a fire. House has been on fire, and we're like, oh, 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.879 whose house? And then I realized she's not in class today. 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.680 Brittany is missing, her house is on fire, Rumors fly, 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:59.280