Dennis Murphy

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 been entitled to.

Keith's daughter-in-law, Allie Griffith, listened to the entirety of the prosecution's case.

All she heard were theories.

And that's what Keith's defense attorney, Mark Bryant, hammered home for the jury.

What's 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.

Rather, 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 reason Keith and Julie bought that new policy was because of a friend's recent tragedy.

And he argued the footage of the SUV pulling into the subdivision was far too blurry to ID it as Keith's Ford Expedition.

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