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The city of Chicago closed this case without saying how the fire that killed Summer Day and her three children
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started. So we hired our own expert. His name is Dale Ryson. He has investigated
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over,200 fires. And when he looked at the photos from the house, one thing jumped out to him immediately. This pot
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on the stove. It's still upright on the back burner set to high. And Dale says based on his experience, it shows signs
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of a greasy substance or like oil. And he believes it's possible that there was oil in that pan and that it heated up,
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boiled over, reached a flash point, and then ignited the ceiling and like spread
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into the attic from there. But here's the thing. Summer wasn't known to deep fry. Her mom told us that she cooked
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healthy and even gave her an air fryer once. And photos from the bedroom where she was show that it looks like she had
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a freshlymade sandwich on the nightstand. Also, based on what we know about the timeline and where everyone
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was positioned when they died, it seemed like everybody was like in their room ready for bed or like already sleeping
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when the fire broke out. So, cooking dinner doesn't even make sense. So, if she wasn't cooking, is there another
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reason oil was on the stove? Could it have been put there by someone else to make it look like the fire was
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accidental?