For the Patten family, their custom-built log home off a back road in Greensboro was their piece of paradise.

"We had our wedding here. This is where we got married," Hannah Patten said.

But now, the place in which they invested their life savings over the past decade is destroyed.

"It meant everything. It had everything in it," Patten said.

The home burned in a blaze late Sunday afternoon.

"By the time we got here, the whole inside had flames," Patten said.

But the Pattens had been away for a few months and the fire made them quickly suspicious.

"We knew instantly that it didn't just catch on fire and that it was arson," Patten said.

The power had been shut off while the family stayed with relatives. Investigators who got there the next day say it was clear this fire was intentionally set.

"It just didn't go up in flames. Somebody did this to us, to our kids," Patten said.

Prosecutors say the Pattens were right. They've charged Jeffrey Gile, 33, with arson. Police say he confessed to another man to burning down the home by dumping gasoline on all three floors. Authorities say he was also caught on camera at a gas station just hours before the fire.

"Why do this to someone else? Why take everything from them?" Patten wondered.

Police say Gile had an alleged accomplice, Christopher Rich, who bought the gasoline. Gile allegedly told Rich he was offered heroin in exchange for burning the Pattens' home and that watching it go up in smoke was an adrenaline rush.

The Pattens say they don't know why they were targeted.

"They were still in the woods, walking back to their car, while we were here watching our house burn down," Patten said.

The Pattens did not have insurance and are struggling to face what's ahead.

"You don't know what to do, you don't know where to start, you don't know who to call. You don't want to just ask for help-- you don't want people to just hand you things," Patten said.

They decided to attend Tuesday's arraignment of the two men accused in their home's destruction. It marked the beginning of their demand for justice.

"I want an apology to my kids," Patten said. "I want them to know that somebody did this and somebody is going to be in trouble for it."

A third person who may be connected to this case is not being named yet by police.

Right now, Gile is being held without bail. Prosecutors requested the same for Rich, stating he had already been out on conditions for alleged sexual assault. But the judge denied the state's request, releasing him on $15,000 bail and a curfew.