Joe Hunter

Sarah was granted an order of protection against Mark Lewis, but it did not stop what happened next in the early morning hours of January 9th, 2014.

It was three-something in the morning, and I woke up to...

A Molotov cocktail had crashed through her parents' bedroom window.

We were able to put the fire out ourselves.

I'd never seen my dad run so fast out the door trying to see if he could see anybody.

Vacaville police pulled over a U-Haul van within minutes, arresting the driver and two passengers.

The trio quickly confessed, telling police they were hired to firebomb Sarah Nottingham's house.

Hired by the pastor, Mark Lewis.

He was questioned by local reporters.

Pastor Lewis was arrested, charged with arson, conspiracy, and stalking.

What do you think you and your family survived at that time?

Ultimately, death.

When the police came into the house, one of them said, this is attempted murder.

And that's exactly what it was, nothing less.

Surviving the attack, Sarah says, helped answer a lingering question about Joanna.

How do you see her death?

By him.

There's just not a doubt in my mind.

By January 2015, Pastor Mark Lewis's thundering sermons that echoed in the Fellowship Baptist Church were a distant memory as Lewis sat silently in a Solano County courtroom.

His trial had begun for stalking Sarah Nottingham and hiring people to firebomb her parents' home.