josh griffin went on trial for first-degree kidnapping and first-degree murder. he pled not guilty. but the evidence was clear, and he was convicted of both charges and sentenced to life in prison. three years later, griffin asked to speak with investigators. and on tape, he finally confessed. i don t know what his motivation was, but i just know what he said. he admitted stomping on her back. he admitted choking her with a flashlight. he admitted handcuffing her. he admitted cutting her driver s license up into a million pieces and flushing it down the toilet. of course, he admitted to all of the lies. he told me he actually disposed of those shoes right after this happened. he said he threw them in a dumpster behind the local kmart. because of incidents like
i still can t imagine what happened and what transpired in those few minutes, the last few minutes of kim s life. if i had an officer who was doing this, i don t care who it was, it shouldn t happen. nobody should suffer and die the way kim did. bit to get a conviction prosecutors needed to prove josh griffin was the killer. with not having any dna, they actually had to build their case around that footprint. according to personnel records, griffin was the only officer to wear a size 8 1/2 thorogood shoe. so ricky novarro took a new pair of these shoes, made an inked impression and matched it to the shoeprint on the back of kim s sweatshirt. navarro believed it was the only one that could have created that impression. in february of 1998, officer
records show that griffin made a cell phone police c intersection par % i when along the dark country roads, that mr. % medli learned that she s coming through, af too stalked, this girl who responses to the call? josh griffin. but for a murder conviction, prosecutors needed more than circumstantial evidence. could they find anything on her sweatshirt. at that point in time, i could not determine whether i was looking at a footwear impression or some other type of object that left that impression on the sweatshirt. using alternate light sources and high-speed cameras, navarro concluded he was looking at the heel of a shoe. it was a type of shoe that was not flat from toe all the way back to the heel. it had a distinct heel in it which, like some of your hard-soled shoes would have, not like your athletic shoes would have. and there was a distinct v, or chevron pattern, across the
kim s, on the night of the murder. he claimed the woman driving the jeep did nothing wrong, but a police officer turned his lights on and pulled her over. he was driving on a revoked driver s license. and so he, of course, was very concerned when he saw the patrol car turn in front of him, so he fell back, obviously not wanting to be too close and draw attention to himself. this explained the bruises on kim s wrists, the possibility that they were caused by handcuffs. but police needed to find out the jurisdiction of the police car. so we actually used that same witness and we did what we called a police car lineup. the witness identified the police car as one from the city of monroe, but that police department had a 110-man force, and it could have been any one of them, since they can use their vehicles while off duty. so investigators tried to find some way to narrow it down. and latent evidence expert, ricky navarro, looked for clues on kim medlin s clothing. that s when he
soon, his fellow officers turned against him. apparently, everything started when kim told police she feared driving home alone at night along the dark country roads, and was concerned that a customer of the men s club was following her. in an effort to help, police broadcast an announcement asking officers to keep an eye out for kim s car, to make sure nothing happened to her. and we know from the investigation after the fact that mr. griffin was, in fact, out and listening to that broadcast that evening. the evidence shows officer josh griffin took an inappropriate interest in kim medlin, and investigators learned that griffin told fellow police officers about it. he saw her jeep running up and down through town and would call to other policemen and make comments about the pretty blonde-haired girl in the jeep, that she s coming through, and he was trying to figure out a