griffin ended his shift around 10:00 p.m. but instead of going home, while still in uniform, he drove his police car to baker s intersection and parked at ron s restaurant, which was closed. around 2:00 a.m., a motorist stopped and asked for help, telling griffin he had some car trouble. griffin called for a tow truck using his personal cell phone, which placed him near the crime scene. about 30 to 45 minutes later, prosecutors believe griffin saw kim medlin drive by. and as planned, decided to pull her over for a traffic violation as a ruse to introduce himself. a witness saw the policeman pull kim s red jeep over and saw that kim had done nothing wrong. prosecutors believe griffin asked kim for her driver s
but 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
that intersection after 4:00 a.m. this was after bridger was notified by police and was headed to the scene of kim s abandoned car. that was the first and the strongest rock-solid evidence that i was where i said i was. investigators were also sure that the killer wore size 8, 8 1/2, or 9 thorogood brand shoes. police personnel records showed that only three members of the monroe police department wore this make and model of shoe in that shoe size range. of the three, one was working at the fire department on the night of kim s murder. he was assigned to sort of a stationary duty that evening where he couldn t just get in a car and drive around. he had to sort of be there at the department. the second officer was on duty, responding to a burglary that night, and was in constant radio contact with headquarters.
to find kim medlin s killer, investigators needed to retrace her steps in the hours before her murder. kim left her job at the men s club around 2:00 a.m. her cell phone records indicated she called her husband, bridger, at 2:15 while driving home. which was their custom. she would call her husband and let him know that she was on her way. bridger medlin told police he went to sleep right after kim called, but a local police officer contradicted his story. he claimed he saw bridger s black pickup truck driving through town around the time of his wife s abduction. the concern was that perhaps he wasn t being completely truthful about where he was. bridger was outraged. i said, something is rotten here. something is wrong. he thought police should spend more time investigating themselves. kim s street smart. the only reason she pulled over
was because of some figure of authority had demanded her pull over. was it possible that bridger was correct, that a policeman or someone in authority had pulled kim over? based upon the position of the jeep, the fact that the driver s license appeared to be missing, one of the investigators early on believed that this could be a blue-light bandit or perhaps even a police officer involved in the stop of the vehicle. a blue-light bandit is someone who mounts a police light on his vehicle and uses it to prey on innocent people. this theory was bolstered by the fact that kim s driver s side window was down. if you logically looked at it, it really narrowed down the reason she pulled over. and it didn t take long before a witness came forward to corroborate this theory. a motorist said he was driving