Synopsis

The evening of November 17, 2004, began like any other for a young family in Calgary. Around nine o'clock, the husband departed for his security guard shift, leaving his wife to care for their two children at home. Sometime in the darkness of night, she awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Moments later, the house was consumed by flames. Despite frantic efforts to reach her children, the mother managed to escape the inferno, but they did not survive. Senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt recounts th