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Making the three-hour drive home from indiana. >> he said im on my way. im probably, you know, two hours away. i said are you all right? he goes, yeah, yeah. i can 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, you had been sideways with her. >> i know if we were just given more time that we would have been close again, t...

Started digging a hole for a coy pond in the backyard. >> my parents come home and 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, this is going to be a nightmare. >> when aaron and zach flew the nest, they joined a motorcycle class through their church, frequently were a golf foursome with friends greg and temple. >> everybody that knew keith, loved him. great guy. >> did he become your best frie...

In a safe neighborhood. their own door watched over by their beloved great dane claire. aarons wife, ali. >> i know for a long time they didnt even lock their 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 seem to be, keith and julie remember transformed when aaron and alley brought into the world their first daughter, ari. >> when i had that first child, it was the greatest day of her life, i ...

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 they can finally mourn her passing. and ...

That julie, in fact, was gone? >> she knew. so she told me. >> temples husband immediately tracked down keith as he was making the three-hour drive home from indiana. >> 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 somethin...

>> 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...

What was up with his marriage, his alibi, the gun he owned? >> he had been questioned to the point that he almost felt like they thought he had done this. >> son aaron also got called down to the station that same evening. 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. >> b...

Hour all the way back hoping to get caught. >> as for the future, keith says he is prepared to die in prison. >> i dont have anything to live for except maybe forgiveness from my boys. >> thats why youre talking today. >> exactly. yes. >> its between you and them, but my take on it is you got some distance to make up. >> i know i do. a lot to make up. >> of the countless things keith stole from his family, resilience was not among them. aaron and zack are closer than theyve been in years. and no...

That wouldnt look good to a jury. the development bragt aaron to a tipping point. were you no longer waivering? >> 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 solis ling the hit. moments later, keith was in a paducah courtroom speaking the words his family an...

>> he had been questioned to the point that he almost felt like they thought he had done this. >> son aaron also got called down to the station that same evening. 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 k...