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>> 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 keith's retrial, detective carter's 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 bull's-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. he'd drawn a map of what he believed to be my residence. suggested the caliber of weapon to use to kill me. the...

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 you're 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 julie...

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 my boys. >> that's why you're talking today. >> exactly. yes. >> it's 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 they've been in years. and now that they know what happened to their mother, they say they can finally mourn her passing and...

That wouldn't 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 -- >> 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 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 and friends never thought they'd hear him say. yes, he murdered julie! no excuse for what i did 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 you're 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 julie's death was, well, just flat-out crazy. >> i knew he didn't...