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Police believe fatal car crash into Florida house was intentional.(The Orlando Sentinel)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

| December 29, 2003 | Stutzman, Rene; Taylor, Gary | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Rene Stutzman and Gary Taylor

Police are all but certain that a father distraught over the breakup of his family first set his car on fire and then crashed it into his in-laws' Altamonte Springs, Fla. home on Christmas Day, killing himself and his two small children.

"The vehicle fire did not occur from the impact," said Altamonte Springs Police spokesman Eric Wells.

Authorities found a gasoline can on the front seat and two-liter bottles in the back of the Crown Victoria driven by Shahab "Mike" Behzadpour, 46, of Apopka, Fla.

Altamonte Springs police investigators, however, would not say Monday what they found inside those containers.

A spokesman for the State Fire Marshal's office said investigators had decided to drive samples directly to a state laboratory in Tallahassee, Fla., hoping to get answers in two or …

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