More information we found out last night...4 people that he had dealings with in the past with the organized crime have been convicted in the past of arson. 

I spoke to an attorney yesterday and he advised that I hire a lawyer now during prefile to counter anything they try to come at me with and to avoid the possibility of them even coming after me. As I said, they dont even have the lab results back yet to determine what, if any, accelerant was used to start the fire. Our mortgage company has sent us, the fire marshal's office and the insurance company documentation to support our claims of trying to buy the house.

Twoblock wrote on Mar 10^th, 2006 at 5:02pm:

I'm sure there is a lot to investigate on this case.  In most cases there is more than a single person doing a single thing which could be considered illegal.  Part of the problem police routinely encounter is when invesigating one thing that happened you encounter people who lie because they want to conceal information about a totally separate thing that happened.

A common example would be investigating John Doe because he works at an office that had a burglary last night which looks to be an inside job.  When you talk to him he feeds you a line of fiction about where he was the previous night, which sets off your BS-detector.  After following up for a while you find out he’s sleeping with the lady who runs the day care center his two kids attend and he doesn’t want his wife to know, so he lied about his whereabouts even though he is not even remotely connected to the burglary.

The written statement submitted by "scaredandinnocent" would set off alarm bells for any police investigator.  Does that mean he started the fire?  No.  Does it mean that the investigator is going to follow up hard until he figures out what happened?  Almost certainly.