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>> from who? >> from my boys. >> thats why youre talking to me today? >> exactly. yes. >> well, its between you and them. ill tell you, my take on it is youve got some distance to make up. >> i know i do. ive got a lot to make up. >> of the countless things keith stole from his family, resilience was not among them. aaron and zach are closer than theyve been in years. and now that they know what happened to their mother, they say they can finally mourn her passing. and focus on keeping her spiri...

>> whatever issues my mom and dad would have had, i just could not believe that my dad would take my kids away from their nana. >> then a few months before keiths retrial, detective carters phone rang. there was news from the jail. an inmate had some information about keith. and it was as eerie as it was chilling. the detective in the bulls-eye. >> keith had come forward to him wanting to have me killed. >> put a hit on you? >> put a hit on me. >> orchestrating your death? >> yes. hed drawn a ma...

Started digging a hole for a coi pond in the backyard. >> my parents come home. theyre like, what are you doing? im like, were going to have a pond. >> were they okay with it? >> yeah, they were fine. they were kind of like, well, this is going to be a nightmare. >> when aaron and zach flew the nest, the griffiths lives seemed to only get busier. they joined a motorcycle class through their church, frequently were golf foursome with friends, craig and temple bradley. >> everybody that knew keith...

This point, aaron? had you come down on the side of, oh my god, my father killed my mother? >> yeah. yeah. >> now aaron, too, wrote his dad a letter. if he was guilty -- >> its time. its time to man up and do what you should have done two years ago. >> keiths defense attorneys went to the prosecutor to hammer out a plea deal. they agreed on 30 years in prison for the murder and for soliciting the hit. moments later, keith was standing in a paducah courtroom speaking the words his family and frie...

>> he said, im on my way. im probably, you know, two hours away. i said, are you all right? he goes, yeah, yeah. 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 youre 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,...

They thought he had done this. >> son aaron also got called down to the station that same evening. and he, too, was questioned about his parents marriage. >> notice anything lately in their relationship as far as any problems or anything like that? that youre aware of anything? >> no. nothing. >> was there any money troubles? was there any relationship, things that we knew of? >> but to a person in the griffiths circle, the very idea that keith might know something about julies death was, well, ...

Cause. there would be a probe into the deepest roots of a treachery beyond most peoples comprehension. >> its not true. no way. >> what had they all missed? >> a monster. a liar. a cheater. >> hes destroyed my entire family. ♪ >> before it became charred rubble, the house was home to a long-time paducah couple, keith and julie griffith, church going, golf playing, high school sweethearts, 36 years into a marriage that had produced two sons. aaron the older. >> they were very supportive parents...

That they thought he did -- that he had done this. >> son aaron also got called down to the station that same evening, and he, too, was questioned about his parents marriage. >> anything this their relationship as far as any problems or anything like that that you are aware of or anything -- >> no. nothing. was there any money troubles? was there any relationship things that we knew of? >> but to a person the griffiths circle, the very idea that keith might know something about julies death was,...

>> it does. >> that wouldnt look good to a jury. the development brought aaron to a tipping point. >> were you no longer wavering at this point? had you come down on the side of, oh my god, my father killed my mother? >> yeah. yeah. >> now aaron, too, wrote his dad a letter. if he was guilty -- >> its time. its time to man up and do what you should have done two years ago. >> keiths defense attorneys went to the prosecutor to hammer out a plea deal. they agreed on 30 years in prison for the murd...

>> i dont have anything to live for. except maybe forgiveness. >> from who? >> from my boys. >> thats why youre talking to me today? >> exactly. yes. >> well, its between you and them. ill tell you, my take on it is youve got some distance to make up. >> i know i do. ive got a lot to make up. >> of the countless things keith stole from his family, resilience was not among them. aaron and zach are closer than theyve been in years. and now that they know what happened to their mother, they say the...