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A quick correction before we begin. In last week's episode, we said Victor Klesnikau had sold the Ford Mobile Home Park the year prior to being murdered.

This was incorrect.

He actually sold the park in 1996, two years prior to being killed, as this episode will explore.

Long after dawn broke on the morning of August 5th, 1998, over a dozen first responders, arson investigators, and local and state law enforcement officers still milled around the Kolesnikau property.

It was a good six or seven hours since the house had been set on fire, sometime in the middle

of the night,

but the blaze had been so intense that the authorities were still waiting for the heat from it to

subside before removing the bodies and investigating the scene. The Cookville Herald citizen ran the

story in their morning edition as the remains of the house were still smoldering and before the bodies

had even been recovered.

It read, a house fire in the Poplar Grove community east of Cookville early this morning,

which claimed two lives and completely destroyed the house, is being investigated as arson-related homicide.

Preceding the fire, which spread throughout the one-story ranch-style brick house,

a loud explosion reportedly was heard by neighbors. Although authorities would not officially release the names of the

victims, the house at 6525 Poplar Grove Road was the residence of Victor and Ala Kalisnikau,

a family source told the Herald Citizen. At mid-morning, the bodies had not been removed

while emergency service workers waited for the smoldering heat to subside.

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