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>> on january 17, 2014, keith griffith decided that he could kill his wife. >> reporter: a cornerstone of the case was 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. >> not at any point changed clothes? >> no. >> reporter: but a look at the security footage showed he had. >> he left wearing one set of clothes. it was one of his work shirts. he came back dressed in all black. >> reporter: the prosecutor also showed...

>> reporter: as for the why question, "how could keith, a man who by all accounts loved his wife, actually do it?" the prosecutor turned to two age old motives. >> almost every case involving a husband and a wife, it's lust and greed. one or the other, and this one had both. >> reporter: the lust part of the equation, he said, was deanna. 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'd love for you to come for the weekend, stay for the weekend. we'll ...

Was a botched break-in. they had heard about the neighborhood's recent rash of burglaries. maybe that's what happened to julie. >> they come in, and they startled cleo. >> the dog started to bark. go for them? >> caused julie to wake up and got scared and shot her. >> it made perfect sense. >> but for detective carter, the burglary theory of the crime wasn't panning out. even as they sorted through the rubble, detectives at the scene found untouched valuables, two safes, a cache of guns and julie's purse sitting in plain sight. >> you would think an intruder would have grabbed it. >> you would...

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. >> she had been nagging him about getting -- making sure they had plenty of life insurance. >> and he argued the footage of th...

Friends. they stayed in touch but didn't see each other for a while. then just a few months back, he sent her a flirty text message. >> the text just said, did you cast a spell on me? and i'm like, i looked down at my phone, i was like, what? he said i was in a party last night and this woman was chatting me up. and he said all i could think about was you. >> deanna who was in the throes of a traumatic romantic break-up agreed to start seeing him again for dinners. and she says, he seemed excited to show off the new post-surgery keith. >> he goes, you're not going to recognize me. he goes, i l...