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 couldn t believe what he just said to me. i had no idea. 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, that foul play is involved. okay. did he ask you the questions, 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. but 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 a
almost every case involving a husband and a 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 come for the weekend, stay for the weekend. we ll go to the concert. and i would really like for you to meet my dad. as for the greed part, that was life insurance money. two policies on julie s life worth $250,000. one of them, the prosecutor said, had taken effect just eight days before julie died. keith griffith got to the point in his life he just wanted to start something new, and he didn t want to give julie griffith what she would have needed in a divorce and would have been entitled to. keith s daughter-in-law ali griffith, listened to the entirety of the prosecution s case.
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. and 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. with your carousing? mm-hmm.
would take him, and the truth would come out. i was 100% convinced that he was innocent. and they were taking the wrong person in. meanwhile, the person who actually did it was getting away. 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 no way he did it. not to julie, his wife. yeah. kids mother. no way keith did it. but when keith griffith went to trial in february 2015. all rise! prosecutor raymond mcginty laid out a formidable circumstantial case. on january 17th, 2014, keith griffith decided that he could kill his wife a cornerstone of the case was
to buy, so for us to be together. for the detective, deanna s story put a whole new spin on the investigation. keith griffith now seemed like a man with a very big secret. or thinking like a homicide detective, was she the one with the secret? 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 ever explaining the reason for his visit. now he laid out his cards. was he not divorced? no. he says, 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