blonde-haired girl in the jeep, that she s coming through, and he was trying to figure out a way to meet her. that was really alarming, too, is i had other officers that knew about this pattern of behavior, but didn t say anything, didn t come forward so we could address it and correct it. after kim s murder, several women came forward to say griffin had been harassing them, too. to tell you how sick this guy actually was, this came out in the trial, there was a girl that was being stalked. this girl has unlisted number. she gets a call that says, i know that you re home. i m coming to see you. what does she do in a panic? she calls the police, she calls 911. who s working? who responds to the call? josh griffin. but for a murder conviction, prosecutors needed more than circumstantial evidence. could they find anything stronger? [ laughing ] want to play hide and seek? yeah! 1. 2. 6. 10! [ female announcer ] piña colada yoplait.
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 that was doing this, i don t care who it was, it shouldn t happen. nobody should suffer and die the way kim medlin did. but 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 thorino-style thorogood shoe. so, ricky novarro took a new pair of these shoes, made an inked impression and compared it to the shoeprint on the back of kim medlin s sweatshirt. navarro believes it was the only one that could have created that impression.
there as a waitress. the money was good. she knew how to handle people. she could diffuse a situation very quickly. she was beautiful, but she was smart about it. late one night, as kim drove home from work, she encountered a road rage incident with an angry motorist. they started passing her, driving closely behind her and blowing the horn at her and things like that. kim was afraid these men had followed her from work, so she went to the police for help. she was very shook up. it took a while for the police officer to calm her down. she also told them that, hey, i travel this road these nights, and i m along here about this time. the captain placed a radio broadcast to the other officers that were working on his shift to be on the lookout for this red jeep and to look out for her if they saw her on the roadway.
but a check of griffin s cell phone records contradicted his alibi that he was home sleeping that night. records show that griffin made a cell phone call around 2:00 a.m. to a tow truck company. when confronted by his superiors, griffin changed his story. he said he was sitting in his police car in uniform at baker s intersection in a restaurant parking lot after his shift ended, reading a book. he claimed to be sitting in that parking lot, reading this law book at this restaurant that was closed. and a motorist asked him to call for a tow truck because his car broke down nearby. this put officer griffin on baker s intersection just a half hour to 45 minutes before kim medlin drove by on old charlotte highway. josh griffin denied any involvement in kim s murder.
license, then asked her to join him in his patrol car while he ran her license plate number. griffin may have made a sexual advance, and kim objected. griffin knew then that he had gone too far. he panicked, handcuffed her, and drove off. griffin turned off of old charlotte highway, and kim knew it was a dead end street. her injuries suggest she jumped from the moving car. griffin caught up with her, struck her on the back of the head, stomped on her back, breaking her neck and leaving the distinctive foot impression. he then strangled her to death, probably with his police flashlight. before he left, he removed the handcuffs and covered her body with debris.