i couldn t imagine anyone would ever want to hurt her. i had no idea what could ve 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. but it all went up in smoke the night she died in a mysterious and monstrous inferno. who is to the right of the mattresses that we found the remains of julie. shocking as the blaze was, it was nothing compared to what investigators found in the embers. it s a bullet. yes. so this woman has been shot to death. yes. the obvious suspects. neighborhood thieves. there were half a dozen house burglaries unsolved. investigators also dug into a favorite theory, a husband. i was angry. i felt that the detectives were on a manhunt and they were after my dad. then a pop to text the might just be a clue. you could say maybe she s driving events here. that s correct. the truth, beyond twisted. leaving behind smoking a
was that a step as you look back towards patching things up with your mom? yes there was a way forward. it was a way forward meaning just need more time. but then came that cold night in january. 9-1-1. what is your emergency. there is a fire in canterbury in there s not a fire truck here. a deputy drove toward the griffin home, his dash cam recorder catching this quick glimpse of the blaze. then, the fire trucks arrived. mccracken county sheriff s detective, fire department received a call in the middle of the night. the very bad fire, very hot. the whole house was completely consuming fire. it took about an hour for firefighters to knock down the flames. hours more for them to make their way through the blackened wreckage of the house, to what seemed to be the heart of the fire. the master bedroom. ghastly, what they would discover. investigators make a pair of discoveries and realize they are dealing with both a tragedy and a mystery.