Lester Holt

So when she did get pregnant, she was so over the moon.

You call your mom, like, even at that young age, your best friend?

Now John Michael would never see his mother again.

That evening, just hours after the fire, Delbert shared Patricia Lee's wishes for her son.

Delbert had came to my mom shortly after that.

and told my mom that he and Lee had had a conversation, that if anything happened to either one of them, that my mom would get John.

Your mom agreed to take John in?

She did.

So you ended up getting taken in by your mom's sister, your aunt?

Yes, ma'am.

Did you feel loved by your aunt and your family?

As John Michael and Patricia Lee's family struggled with their grief, fire marshals finished their investigation.

They concluded the blaze had started in the living room, where they found three kerosene lanterns in a pile near a coffee table.

But the report described them as decorative only and not in use.

The fire department does come to you with a conclusion.

That it was inconclusive.

that they couldn't determine a cause of the fire.

So the conclusion was no conclusion?

No conclusion.

Patricia Lee's family knew the report was wrong about one thing.