I couldnt imagine anyone that would ever want to hurt her. I have no idea what could have happened. Married to her High School Sweetheart, family meant everything to her. There was always a lot of talk about children. She wanted grandchildren fast. It all went up in smoke the night she died in a mysterious and monstrous inferno. We found the remains of julie. Shocking as the blaze was, it was nothing compared to what investigators found in the embers. Is a bullet. This woman had been shot to death. The obvious suspects, neighborhood thieves. There were half a dozen House Burglaries unsolved. Investigators also dug into another theory her husband did it. I was angry. I felt the Detectives Ronnie manhunt and they were after my dad. Then, up pops a text that could have been a clue. The truth, beyond twisted, leaving behind Smoking Ashes and burning questions. I physically started shaking and i started crying. I wanted to know why. Why. Her home, and she was gone. Welcome to dateline. Juli
on january 17, 2014, keith griffith decided that he could kill his wife. reporter: a cornerstone of the case was that hotel security video. not only did it show keith gone for enough time to commit the crime, the prosecutor said, it also caught him in a lie. remember, in his interview, keith told police he hadn t swapped clothes that night. not at any point changed clothes? no. reporter: but a look at the security footage showed he had. he left wearing one set of clothes. it was one of his work shirts. he came back dressed in all black. reporter: the prosecutor also showed security video captured from a residence near the griffith home. it caught a glimpse of an suv 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 griffith s car. reporter: and another circumstantial bit. who else but keith, the prosecutor said, could have gotten by the griffith s aggressive great dane cleo? certainly
we were all frantic, we had no idea what was happening, how it could have happened. because at that point, we knew that there was there was no way that he had anything to do with it. so this is nightmare country? yes. but again, we thought it would all be explained. you know, they would do their job, they would take him and the truth would come out. i was 100% convinced that he was innocent and that they were taking the wrong person in. meanwhile, the person who actually did it was getting away. reporter: family and friends were, for sure, distressed to learn that keith had another woman on the road but the revelation wasn t enough to shake their support for him. it was a shock, but it was something that we accepted as a mistake. but that did not mean that he killed julie. there s just no way he did it. yeah, this is not to julie. definitely. his wife, you know, kids mother, there s no way keith did it. reporter: but when keith griffith went to trial in feb