catherine novak's body had been discovered among the blackened ruins over big red house. but the passage of time didn't make ruins it any ruins easier for her mother. >> you know it's a thing that never happens to you it always happens to someone else. it isn't happen to you. you don't lose a child like that. in such a horrible way, a fire. >> catherine's brother michael and his wife joanne had stopped asking questions. choosing instead to accept they might never know what really happened to her. >> to take catherine's perspective, she would look for the positive side. the good things. and she would want us to move on. and that's what we try to do. we made our peace with it. and we went on living. >> but as time went by, in the last little town of narrowsburg,