Slow Burn

Season 2026 · Episode 20 · First aired July 17, 2026

When a fire breaks out at a mansion in an affluent New Jersey suburb, authorities find all four members of a successful and respected family deceased.

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After detectives learn of a second fire in a neighboring community just hours earlier, they uncover a shocking connection between the two blazes, launching an investigation that reveals a web of deception within the family. INTERVIEWS WITH: Former Colts Neck Mayor JP Bartolomeo, Colts Neck resident and on-air reporter Monica Guy, detectives Richard Zarrillo and Lt. Christopher Brady, volunteer firefighters Carmelo LaMarca and Mike Whitehill, childhood friends of victims Jesse and Sophia Caneiro Asher and Ripley Burgess, assistant prosecutors Chris Decker and Nicole Wallace, and investigators Sgt. Stephen Vogt, Lt. Patrick Petruzziello, Lt. Nick Cattelona, and Captain Brian Weisbrot.

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