>>> just before daybreak on august 29, 1994, firefighters in venton, virginia, were called to a house fire on virginia avenue. when the fire was extinguished, rescuers found the bodies of all four members of the hodges family. 41-year-old blaine hodges, his 37-year-old wife teresa, and their two daughters, 11-year-old winter and 3-year-old anna. >> i think it's hard enough to lose one family member, but once you lose four, the numbness and the grief that comes over you is unbearable. >> teresa hodges was on the sofa downstairs. she had been strangled to death. an empty diesel fuel can lay nearby. upstairs, the two little girls were in bed. both had been shot to death. blaine hodges was dead from a gunshot wound in the master bedroom. a .22-caliber pistol was on the floor by his side. >> it looked like blaine hodges had killed his wife and two young daughters and then set the home on fire and got in bed and killed himself. >> blaine hodges had recently had some difficult times. he had been fired from his job at the post office for allegedly stealing $4,600. >> he had been convicted of