conclusion of consumed. keith griffith was about to take the stand and explain the most damning piece of evidence against him. hotel security footage put him off the grid for more than 6 1/2 hours the night his wife julie was murdered. but if he wasn t perpetrating the crime during that time, then where was he? tell us your name, please, sir. keith wayne griffith. keith s explanation came with an embarrassing secret. his lawyer argued that ever since becoming a traveling salesman, keith had struggled with an addiction to sex. keith, until you got out on the road several years ago, did you have this kind of a sexual addiction? no, sir. the night julie was murdered, he said he spent those hours out prowling for women. after he left the hotel, he changed out of work clothes into his man out looking duds. i didn t like people to put my job with my carousing. your carousing? mm-hmm.
so you believed she had been played by this guy? i believe that she had. so detective carter wondered if keith griffith had manipulated and lied to this woman, had keith lied to him, too. maybe it was more about what keith hadn t said. rewind to that moment when the detective had dropped what should have been devastating news on keith. the investigation has shown that foul play is involved. okay. did he ask you the question, what happened? what are you telling me here? she was killed? no. you d expect that, right? julie was shot by an intruder? what s going on? right, there was no questions to that. if keith griffith was somehow involved in his wife s murder, how on earth had he pulled it off? after all, he was hundreds of miles away at that hotel the night of the crime. unless, of course, he wasn t. coming up, a security video surprise. scrolling through the tape. going through, going through. and then when did your bingo moment come up? and then a twist
you can spin it another way and say maybe she s driving events here. maybe she wants to get rid of the wife. that s correct. we were open for that being an idea, or a possibility. in fact, the detective had let her tell her story without explaining the reason for his visit. now he laid out his cards. was he not divorced? no. he said, first of all, keith s not divorced. according to him, keith had been married to his high school sweetheart for 36 years. and i just broke down, because i i couldn t believe it. but, of course, there was more. we re conducting an investigation, and this investigation involves what we believe to be a homicide of his wife. i was in shock. i felt like, oh, my gosh, i can t believe what he just said. i had no idea.
pulling into the subdivision shortly before the fire. it was a little blurry. it was a few seconds long, but it sure looked like keith griffiths car. another circumstantial bit. who else but keith, the prosecutor said, could have gotten by the griffiths aggressive great dane cleo. certainly not an intruder. the dog and keith were very close. a burglar couldn t have come in. a family member could have. as for the why question, how could keith, a man who by all accounts loved his wife, actually do it? the prosecutor turned to two age-old motives. almost every case involving a husband and wife, it s lust and greed. one or the other. this one had both. the lust part of the equation, he said, was deanna. raise your right hand she took the stand and told the jury that not only was keith house-hunting for them, he was also making plans to bring her down to paducah for a concert and introduce her to his family. i would love for you to stay for the weekend. we ll go to the
message from a lady by the name of deanna james. ping, up comes a text message? that s correct. the message read, did you make it home okay? keith was quick to point out his relationship with deanna was completely platonic. she s more like a guy friend. no big deal? nothing sexual? that s right. after that, keith was released to go and grieve with his family. detective carter, meanwhile, set out to verify keith s story. he had a receipt where he d stayed. that puts him three hours away from this house fire. right. it showed his check-in time and check-out time. a quick check of keith s gun showed he was telling the truth about it as well. the gun looked as though it had never been fired. maybe he s not the guy? he may not be. so then who was? coming up, the detective sits down with deanna. was she really like a guy friend to keith? you could say, what, maybe she s driving events here? maybe she wants to get rid of the wife? that s correct. when dateli