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>> 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 years in prison for the murder and for soliciting the hit. moments later, keith was standing in a paducah courtroom speaking the wor...

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 seemed to be, keith and julie were transformed when aaron and ali brought into the world their first daughter, aria. >> a first child, it was a greatest day of her life i think. >> julie lived for my little girl. she wanted to be a part of everything that she did. >> and julie was there for ali when she went into labor for their second daughter analiese. her white knuckled dash to the hospital earned julie the affectionate nickname nascar nana. >> th...

Hour all the way back, hoping to get caught. >> reporter: as for the future, keith says, he is prepared to die in prison. >> i don't have anything to live for, except maybe forgiveness. >> reporter: from who? >> from my boys. >> reporter: and that's why you're talking today? >> exactly. yes. >> reporter: well, it's between you and them, but i'll -- i'll tell you, my take on it is you got some distance to make up. >> oh, i know i do, i've got a lot to make up. >> reporter: of the countless things keith stole from his family, resilience was not among them. aaron and zach are closer than they've ...

>> reporter: six days after the cold-blooded murder of julie griffith, family and friends gathered at her church to say goodbye. between the visitation and the memorial service, son, zach, was overwhelmed. >> just showed, like, what an amazing woman -- that my mom was, to have that many people come out just to say that, you know, they just wanted to give their condolences. >> reporter: to close friends craig and temple bradley, julie's husband, keith, was more emotional that day than they'd ever seen him. >> tears. >> tears. >> sadness. i'd never seen him cry, you know? in my life. >> reporter...

He goes, "yeah, yeah." i could tell he was in shock. >> reporter: 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 you're just beating yourself up something terrible, that you'd been sideways with her -- >> yeah. and i know that if we were just given more time, that we would've been close again, that we would've been, you know -- that mom and son duo that we were. but we just -- we didn't have the time. it was ripped away from us and never get it back. >> reporter: aaron, the elder son, had more o...