toxicology report that has eric dying of, you know, fentanyl, what, 50 times what the regular amount is. so, normally in a criminal case, mike, you don t have this much evidence to start off a case. and let s be real. she had means, opportunity, motive. means, she s arguably got the drugs because she s ordered it, opportunity. she s giving him a drink, and then the motive is the life insurance money. mike: what should her defense team do? yeah, this is a tough one, mike. but i think her only two angles are to hire a forensic toxicologist to analyze the blood of eric. so, anytime there s a murder, the coroner keeps a sample, mike, of the blood so that both sides can do their own independent testing. she s got to get a toxicologist, analyze his blood. try to attack how the analysis was done by prosecution, and try to find some flaws in it and maybe she finds there s a different drug there, maybe she
actually do it. the prosecutor turned to two age-old motives. almost every case involving husband and wife s lost and greed. one of the other. and this one had both. the last part of the equation was diana. raise your right hand. she took the stand and told the jury that not only was keith house hunting for him, he was also making plans to bring down to paducah for a concert and introduce or to his family. i d love for you to come to the family, stay for the weekend, go to the concert, and i would really like 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 griffiths got to the point in his life, he just wanted to start something new. he didn t want to give julie grievous which he would ve needed in a divorce, and been entitled to.
things it just has to be a horrible experience in his opening statement, defense attorney john sears wa quick to address that life insurance money. you will hear from them tha their father told them from th beginning, this is your mone from your mother, it isn t mine he signed over any interest to the girls and the money was fo the girl that s what happens. the prosecutor called his first witness katie democker steve and carroll s firs daughter did she have something sh did after she came from work she did, she like to go for a run, four days a week out in the back land. and to your recollection di she leave the door unlocke when she would do that yes an unlocked door, opportunity for her killer t enter and wait on the stand carroll s mothe rose kennedy had to relive tha very last phone call with he daughter how exactly did it and so abruptly she told the sheriff s
bit it off. when cops showed up, they decided they weren t going to take chances. we got to warn you, this is a little graphic. all right. i didn t think we were going to show that much of it. i ll be just fine looking at the cabernet flavored jacket. this guy looked like a mall guy who couldn t be hired. thank you for even tolerating it. let me tell you what s going on. that s circlesville 25 miles south of columbus. my wife is from that area. it s making me rethink things. she s taken me to see if zebras in the past. i think she s trying to get some life insurance money. jesse: feed the zebras with me. walk through the streets of san francisco. i have a theory on this,