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Present, and his response was one word, and that was tragedy. >> wow. that does make the hair on your neck stand up. >> it does. >> that wouldn't look good to a jury. the development brought aaron to a tipping point. were you no longer wavering at 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 -- >> it's time. it's time to man up and do what you should have done two years ago. >> keith's defense attorneys went to the prosecutor to hammer out a plea deal. they agreed on 30 yea...

The first time you had a chance to see him eye to eye. >> i could just tell he was shaken. >> as if the news couldn't get any worse, the griffiths' great dane, cleo, along with a second pet, daisy, had also perished in the flames. craig and keith walked the property surveying the damages. >> we get to the coy pond, he's like, got to get those fish out of there. julie would kill me if something happened to those fish. i was like, you know, let's not worry about that right now. >> overwhelmed by loss, the griffiths were faced with the question, how could this have happened? >> the first thought ...

But it sure looked like keith griffith's car. >> and another circumstantial bit. who else but keith, the prosecutors said, could have gotten by the griffiths' aggressive great dane, cleo? certainly not an unknown intruder. >> the dog and keith were very close. a burglar couldn't have come in, a family member couldn't have. >> 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. this one had both. >> the lust par...

Were unrecognizablunrecognizabl >> as for keith, he was away calling on customers in indiana. word of julie's death spread almost as fast as the fire had raced through the house. >> i'm getting ready for work, have the tv on in the background. >> we are live in the canterbury hills subdivision on tudor boulevard. >> then temple bradley's phone rang. it was a friend who also knew julie. >> she said you know there's the fire, yeah, i saw it on tv. he said, it's keith and julie's house. and i just sat there. >> did she know at that point that julie, in fact, was gone? >> she knew. she told me. >>...

Subdivision, crying before i ever get out. regretting what i'd done. i probably drove 100 miles an hour all the way back, hoping to get caught. >> as for the future, keith says he is prepared to die in prison. >> i don't have anything to live for. except maybe forgiveness. >> from who? >> from my boys. >> that's why you're talking to me today? >> exactly. yes. >> well, it's between you and them. i'll tell you, my take on it is you've got some distance to make up. >> i know i do. i've got a lot to make up. >> of the countless things keith stole from his family, resilience was not among them. aa...