as julie griffiths' friends and family struggled to cope with her death, the county coroner made an alarming discovery. the grandmother had been shot three times. was this a random act, or did julie know her killer? with little evidence to go on, detectives wanted to talk to her husband. and that's when they stumbled across a curious clue. back now to dennis murphy with "consumed." >> the theory that julie died by accidental fire collapsed as suddenly as the griffiths house itself. for detective matt carter, a slug recovered from julie griffiths' torso, turned the charred rubble into the scene of a homicide crime. >> it changed a lot. >> despite more than a decade on the job, the detective had his work cut out for him. no hair fiber, bloody footprints, any of that stuff. >> you've got an arson that destroyed any chance of obtaining any of that from the scene. >> for detective carter, the most obvious theory, this homicide was the work of a home intruder. >> a burglary gone bad. >> looking for a laptop, julie, and it goes down. >> right. we had burglaries within a few miles of this area. >> w

one of them the prosecutor said had taken effect just eight days before julie died. >> keith griffith to start something new, and he didn't want to give julie grif fit what she would have needed in a divorce and been entitled to. >> his family listened to the entirety of the prosecution's case. all she heard were theories. >> they told a story how they wanted it to go. and they had facts that supported their story. but did not prove it. >> and that's what keith's defense attorney, mark bryant, hammered home for the jury. >> what does no evidence mean? >> they didn't have dna. they didn't have any kind of forensics. they didn't have a confession. they had nothing. they had circumstantial evidence. >> in their haste to arrest keith, the defense argued the police had gotten it wildly wrong. yes, he conceded keith wasn't the husband of the year. but he said deanna's story that keith was pursuing her for a long-term commitment was nonsense. >> what he wanted was a port in every storm. >> as for the life insurance, $250,000 was far from a financial windfall, he said. even the bradleys knew

got to the point in his life he wanted to start something new and he didn't want to give julie griffith what she would have needed and been entitled to. griffith listened to the entirety of the prosecution's case. all she heard were theories. >> they spun a story and told the story how they wanted it to go and they had facts that supported their story but did not prove it. >> and that's what keith's defense attorney hammered home for the jury. >> what does no evidence mean? they didn't have dna. they didn't have any kind of forensics, they didn't have a confession. they hadhi they had circumstantial evidence. >> in their haste to arrest keith, the defense argued the police had gotten it wrong. yes, he conceded, keith wasn't the husband of the year but he said deanna's story that keith was pursuing her for a long-term commitment was nonsense. >> what he wanted was a port in every storm. >> as for the life insurance, $250,000 was far from a financial windfall, he said. even the bradleys knew that the friend's recent tragedy. >> she had been nagging him about getting -- making sure they ha