of julie's death spread almost as fast as the fire had raced through the house. >> i'm getting ready for work, have the tv on in the background. >> we are live in the canterbury hills subdivision on tudor. >> reporter: then, temple bradley's phone rang -- it was a friend, who also knew julie. >> she said, "you know there's the fire." and i said, "yeah, i saw it on tv." and she said, "it's keith and julie's house." and i just sat there. >> reporter: did she know at that point that julie in fact was gone? >> she knew, and so she told me. >> reporter: temple's husband immediately tracked down keith as he was making the three-hour drive home from indiana. >> he said, "i'm on my way. i'm probably, you know, two hours away." i said, "are you all right." he goes, "yeah, yeah." i could tell he was in shock. >> reporter: the news hit zach griffith particularly hard. since coming out to his mother, his relationship with her had been strained, and now this -- i guess you're just beating yourself up something terrible, that you'd been sideways with her? >> yeah. and i know that if we were just given more time, that we would've been close again, that we would've been, you know -- that mom and son d