Ok here’s what I got:

A long time ago people died in a fire at Cornell. It was probably arson. They never figured out who did it.

Later, some guy got obsessed with figuring it out, and thinks he’s got it. This other guy seems real suspicious. But there’s no proof.

So the reporter went to talk to the suspicious guy, and he didn’t want to talk about the fire.

So I guess we’ll never know.