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
that teeth might know something about julie s death was, well, flat out crazy. i knew he didn t do it. there wasn t any way that he was involved in this. i remember sitting there, looking over at keith, and watching him for a while, and i said, you can t even grieve, can you? he said, no, they ve taken it all away. the friends working theory was a botched break-in. they d heard about the neighborhood s recent rash of burglaries, maybe that s what happened to julie. i come in, they saw the dog start to bark. it caused really to wake up and they got scared and the shot are. it made perfect sense. before detective carter, the burglary theory of the crime wasn t planning out. even as they sorted through the rubble, detectives at the scene found untouched valuables, two saves, a cache of guns and julie s purse, sitting in plain sight. do you think an intruder would ve grabbed it? you think. so so, carter set out to
the jury was dead lined. we were going to declare a mistrial at this time. keith would sit in jail for another year, as he awaited a second trial. a long time for his family to process the story he told on the stand. he left to go to a bar, to go cruising, or something, and then he goes and sits on the river front. like, he s never done it before in his entire life. so when he stepped down, you thought, if either do this thing? yeah. i deftly wasn t saying it out loud, and i wasn t ready to accept it, but i definitely was moving in the direction the only thing that makes sense at this point, is that he committed the crime. after months of wrestling with his thoughts, zach decided it was time to send his dad a letter. i put in the letter my opinion was that you did it. you know, you took away the last chance that i had at rebuilding relationship with my mom. you know, you re no longer allowed to contact me. i don t want you to ask about
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
he s gonna be returning. that never happened. scrolling. through going through. going through a name when did your bingo moment arrived. he finally arrived back at the hotel six hours and 34 minutes after he had it left initially. god for more than six and a half hours. was that enough time for keith drive back home to his house in kentucky, commit the crime and return? so what did you and your partner fine when you put a clock to? it drove the speed limit to and from, it would ve allowed approximately 20 minutes at least to have committed the crime. is that enough time for him to do this. i believe. was ample 15 20 minutes. keith griffith was her arrested and charged with arson murder. here are your answer to the allegations? sir he pleaded not guilty could face a death battle. we were frantic, we had no idea how could ve happened. because at that point we knew