SOUTHGATE, Ky. --
It's been more than 30 years since 165 were killed in the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire that was later ruled accidental.
But new evidence is leading to a renewed push to reopen the investigation.
In the days after the May 1977 fire at the Southgate attraction, a Kentucky crime lab technician named Ronnie Freel took hundreds of photographs at the scene.
Most of those photographs have never been seen and were stored in Freel's garage, but the Kentucky attorney general's office has ordered him to turn over the photographs to be made publicly available.
"We're going to have access to well over 500 photos that no one has ever seen," said David Brock, who was working as a busboy the night of the fire.
Brock believes the fire was intentionally set, and he has been urging officials for years to reopen their investigation.
He believes the photos may show evidence of arson and support his theory that a breaker box was tampered with beneath the club's Zebra Room.
Freel must turn over the photos to the state by next month.
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