 A pretrial show cause hearing in the Green case began in January 1996 , with Green represented by Dennis Moore and Kevin Moriarty . Green 's defense claimed that the fire in the family home had been set not by Debora Green , but by her son , Tim Farrar , who had once been caught by local police setting off Molotov cocktails . The defense also attempted to attribute Farrar 's poisoning to Tim , who did much of the cooking in the household . 
