i couldn t imagine anyone would ever want to hurt her. i had no idea what could ve happened. married to her high school sweetheart, family meant everything to her. there was always a lot of talk about children. she wanted grandchildren, fast. but it all went up in smoke the night she died in a mysterious and monstrous inferno. who is to the right of the mattresses that we found the remains of julie. shocking as the blaze was, it was nothing compared to what investigators found in the embers. it s a bullet. yes. so this woman has been shot to death. yes. the obvious suspects. neighborhood thieves. there were half a dozen house burglaries unsolved. investigators also dug into a favorite theory, a husband. i was angry. i felt that the detectives were on a manhunt and they were after my dad. then a pop to text the might just be a clue. you could say maybe she s driving events here. that s correct. the truth, beyond twisted. leaving behind smoking a
but it all went up in smoke the night she died in a mysterious and monstrous inferno. who is to the right of the mattresses that we found the remains of julie. shocking as the blaze was, it was nothing compared to what investigators found in the embers. it s a. bullet yes. so this woman screenshotted. yes. the obvious suspects. neighborhood. thieves there were half a dozen house burglaries unsolved. investigators also dug into a favorite theory, a husband. it i was angry. i felt that the detectives were on a manhunt and they were after my dad. then a pop to text the might just be a clue. you could say maybe she s driving events here. that s correct. the truth, beyond twisted. leaving behind smoking ash isn t burning questions. i physically started shaking and i started. crying i want to know. why. welcome to dateline. julie griffith was as a loving wife and doting mother. then a blaze ripped through her home and she was gone. was this an accide
anything to do with it. so this is nightmare country? yes. but again we, thought it would all be explained. they would do the job, they 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 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 if he killed julie. there s no way he did. it not to julie. his mother now there s no way he did it. but when keith griffith went to trial in february, 2015. all rise. prosecutor raymond mckee laid out a formidable circumstantial case. on january 17th, 2014 keefe griffith decided he could kill his wife. a cornerstone of the case was that hotel security video. not only did it show keith gone for enough tim
griffith decided he could kill his wife. a cornerstone of the case was that hotel security video. not only did it show keith gone for enough time to commit a crime the prosecutor said, and also caught him in ally. remember in his interview, keith told police he hadn t swapped clothes that night. at any point did you change? clause no. but look at the security footage showed he had. he left wearing one set a close, she was in one of his work shirts, came back dressed in all-black. the prosecutor also showed security video captured from residents near the griffith home. it caught a glimpse of an suv pulling into the subdivision shortly before the fire. it s a little blurry, there s a few seconds long, but it sure looked like keith griffiths car. and enough and another circumstantial. bit who else but keith prosecutors said, could ve got by the griffiths aggressive grating cleo, certainly not an
on january 17, 2014, keith griffith decided that he could kill his wife. reporter: a cornerstone of the case was that hotel security video. not only did it show keith gone for enough time to commit the crime, the prosecutor said, it also caught him in a lie. remember, in his interview, keith told police he hadn t swapped clothes that night. not at any point changed clothes? no. reporter: but a look at the security footage showed he had. he left wearing one set of clothes. it was one of his work shirts. he came back dressed in all black. reporter: the prosecutor also showed security video captured from a residence near the griffith home. it caught a glimpse of an suv pulling into the subdivision shortly before the fire. it was a little blurry. it was a few seconds long. but it sure looked like keith griffith s car. reporter: and another circumstantial bit. who else but keith, the prosecutor said, could have gotten by the griffith s aggressive great dane cleo? certainly