When firefighters found an entire family dead inside their home,

it looked like a murder suicide.

But there were several inconsistent clues in the rubble.

Could ballistics, a time card, and some secret audio tapes unravel the mystery?

Just before they break on August 29th, 1994,

firefighters in Vinton, 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 is 37-year-old wife Teresa, and their two daughters,

11-year-old Winter and three-year-old Anna.

I think it's hard enough to lose one family member, but when she 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-calibre 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 gotten bed and killed herself.

Blaine Hodges had recently had some difficult times.

He had been fired from his job at the post office for allegedly stealing $4,600.

It had been convicted of an investment charge, and was on the verge of going off to jail for a short period of time.

So, when you found that out, that would fit into the motivating factor that he maybe wanted to kill his family and take his own life.

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