this was not a robbery. her wedding band wedding ring. there was a necklace still in place around her neck. those items that would have had potential value were still present on her. the autopsy revealed kim had been beaten kicked and strangled. but there were no signs of sexual assault. there were several blows on the back of her head and neck and her back area that would have been consistent with blunt force trauma. our theory is she was knocked down from behind and had something pressed up against her neck. and there was evidence that kim had been bound but the bindings were missing. typically, if the killer takes the time to restrain them tape them i ve seen duct tape different things. i ve never seen it removed.
navarro discovered the shoe was made by the thorogood company in wisconsin. they made quite a few different styles, i believe approximately 17 different styles, of uniform shoes. many of these shoe styles were worn by police officers. this particular shoe was 831 style-6114, and that was the only shoe that thorogood put that sole design on at that time. navarro measured the print on kim s sweatshirt and determined that the killer wore a size 8, 8 1/2 or 9 thorogood shoe. the question now was to find the monroe police officer wearing them. i reckon a storm s a brewin . reckon so. reckon you gotta hotel? reckon,
because they were damaged on an accident scene investigation. 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 the motorist asked for 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.
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