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? change clothes? no. but a look at the security footage showed he had. he left wearing one set of clothes. one of his work shirts. he came back dressed in all black. 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. and another circumstantial bit. who else but keith, the prosecutor said, could have gotten by the griffiths aggressive great dane cleo? certainly not an unknown intruder. the dog and keith were very close. a burglar couldn t have come in. a family member could have. as for the why question, how could keith, a m
i could tell he was in shock. the news hit zach griffith particularly hard. since coming out to his mother, his relationship with her had been strained. and now this. i guess you re just beating yourself up something terrible that you had been sideways with her. yeah. and i know that if we were just given more time, that we would have been close again. that we would have been, you know, that mom and son duo that we were. but we just we didn t have the time. it was ripped away from us. and we never get it back. aaron, the elder son, had more of a take-charge reaction. got to take care of my brother, i got take care of my dad. you ve got logistics. before the grief that you can absorb. yeah, for me, it s just kind of the way my brain is wired i guess. within hours, the griffiths would head from all directions toward what used to be an anchor in their lives, the family home. just gave my dad a big hug and we were both crying. we re like, i can t believe this. you know?
more. we re conducting an investigation, and this investigation involves what we believe to be a homicide of his wife. i was in shock. i felt like, oh, my gosh, i couldn t believe what he just said to me. i had no idea. so you believed she had been played by this guy? i believe that she had. so detective carter wondered if keith griffith had manipulated and lied to this woman, had keith lied to him, too? maybe it was more about what keith hadn t said. rewind to that moment when the detective had dropped what should have been devastating news on keith. the investigation has shown that, that foul play is involved. okay. did he ask you the questions, what happened? what are you telling me here? she was killed? no. you d expect that, right? julie was shot by an intruder? what s going on? right, there was no questions to that. but if keith griffith was somehow involved in his wife s murder, how on earth had he pulled it off? after all, he was hundreds of miles away a
almost every case involving a husband and a wife, it s lust and greed. one or the other. this one had both. the lust part of the equation, he said, was deanna. raise your right hand. she took the stand and told the jury that not only was keith house-hunting for them, he was also making plans to bring her down to paducah for a concert and introduce her to his family. i would love for you to come for the weekend, stay for the weekend. we ll go to the concert. and i would really like for 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 griffith got to the point in his life he just wanted to start something new, and he didn t want to give julie griffith what she would have needed in a divorce and would have been entitled to. keith s daughter-in-law ali griffith, listened to the entirety of the prosecution s case.
didn t lock the door. they would leave and go to dinner or go to town and leave the door unlocked. because cleo was the guard dog. fulfilled as the griffiths lives seemed to be, keith and julie were transformed when aaron and ali brought into the world their first daughter, aria. a first child, it was a greatest day of her life i think. julie lived for my little girl. she wanted to be a part of everything that she did. and julie was there for ali when she went into labor for their second daughter analiese. her white knuckled dash to the hospital earned julie the affectionate nickname nascar nana. the flashers were going and honking the horn. what is she saying to you? talking to you. don t have a baby in my car. keep your legs crossed. don t have the baby in the car. everything seemed to be going great for the griffiths in 2013. keith had weight loss surgery and dropped more than 100 pounds. julie was over the moon with two granddaughters. but also that year came the r