The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder Season 1 Episode 1

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00:00Oh

00:02What is the most shocking discovery in the Byron Griffey case everything

00:08Like if you wrote it on paper nobody would believe it

00:14This story it's a whodunit

00:19It involves sex and power you've got wealth and intrigue and

00:26hiding one's identity

00:29There's two types of funeral directors

00:31Some want to help people and some are in this to take advantage of people

00:39Who could do something like that this woman came up to me and said

00:46So now we had another dead body on our hands

00:50The things that came to light I was just as shocked as everybody else what the has happened

00:58Did you ever think of getting even with someone?

01:02Scared to me. I am trying to get to the truth

01:07Did you kill Byron Griffey?

01:28When you move to a small town there's things that you learn really fast like

01:42Anything that you might want hidden

01:46It doesn't stay hidden

01:48It doesn't stay hidden

01:541994 is when charles and I moved to colorado from salt lake city

01:58From salt lake city

02:02We wanted to be in the funeral business

02:05Charles and Tony were brothers they shared a mother and they were great film directors just willing to help anybody with anything

02:18I had a cat he was dying it was terrible so they came and they got him for me and they took him and they took care of him for me and they cremated him for me

02:30They're wonderful guys

02:35If you talk to any mortician

02:38Death does not weigh heavy on their hearts

02:42They're morticians man they deal with death all the time and they have the means to deal with death

02:50Morticians that's kind of a

02:54Unusual profession

02:56Morticians make a lot of money

02:58Especially on coffins and caskets

03:00It's very lucrative

03:02Very lucrative

03:04A lot of people see the money that you can make and that's their driving force

03:09I wasn't like that

03:11Becoming a funeral director is almost more of a calling

03:15A lot of it isn't pleasant but with funeral homes in small towns you're pretty much like family

03:23For us it was more than just a job

03:27Byron Griffey was the same way

03:30Byron Griffey was the same way

03:34Byron was a funeral director too

03:36He was a really good funeral director

03:38He knew what he was doing

03:40He'd been doing it for a long time

03:42He was a very generous person

03:45He helped us with some equipment

03:47When we first got started

03:49And after that we just became good friends

03:58On October 12th

04:00Charles and I went to Fowler

04:02To meet Byron for lunch

04:05It's usually about an hour's drive from Florence to Fowler

04:11We were meeting Byron at his farm

04:16When we pulled up to the gate it was locked

04:22Charles tried calling him and didn't get an answer

04:28That was a little strange

04:31We finally just decided to leave

04:389-1-1-1-2 emergency

04:50I think my mother is dead

04:53I think he fell

04:55Okay

04:56Is he bleeding anywhere?

04:57Yeah

04:58All over

04:59He's dead

05:00He's dead

05:01He's dead

05:02He's cold

05:03There's blood everywhere

05:04He's hurting

05:05My dad took care of everybody

05:19When I moved back home with three kids

05:26He bought a house for us which had some land

05:29And he said it would be fun for the kids to grow up on a farm

05:34And then at that point I met Gina, my wife

05:41My dad was my biggest support system

05:45When I told my dad I was gay

05:49He said, well, you know, you're not alone

05:52There's a lot of people that are

05:54So when Lynette and I decided to get married

05:59Byron was extremely supportive

06:02He took my kids, all of my kids

06:07Just like they were his own grandkids

06:10Whether I was his favorite or not

06:14He was my favorite

06:18He was my favorite person in the whole world

06:25The morning of Byron's death

06:27Which was a day before his birthday

06:29He was planning to meet Charles and Anthony

06:32Out at the farm

06:33And go to lunch

06:35We were sitting down for dinner

06:44And Byron never showed up

06:46He wasn't answering his phone

06:48My dad always answered the phone

06:50Always

06:52So I called Charles

06:56I said, is my dad still with you?

06:59Charles told her we never even saw him

07:03He never showed up

07:05We started to get worried about him

07:08So we drove out to the farm

07:11Gina said, I'll check the house

07:14And I was yelling for him

07:17You know

07:18He didn't answer

07:20And I heard Gina say

07:23I found him

07:25And I said, is he okay?

07:30She said no

07:31We received a call of a male that was down

07:44The address I knew as Byron Griffey's farm

07:47When I got on scene

07:49EMS was there

07:51We went in

07:53We found Byron Griffey

07:54Laid out on the floor

07:55In the middle of a bedroom

07:56That was empty

07:57He was just off the wall

07:59Probably about two and a half feet

08:01Crime scene was very clean

08:04I mean, there was nothing there

08:06The family had moved out of the farmhouse

08:08So the farmhouse was empty

08:10There was no forced entry

08:13Or was not a struggle of any kind

08:16No defensive marks on him

08:19There was very little blood

08:24I think my words were

08:27It's weird

08:31There was no weapon readily available

08:34The blood splattering on the wall

08:36Was not consistent with what I'm used to

08:41This was very strange

08:44Byron is laid out

08:46Almost like body in a casket

08:48And then he's laying flat on the floor

08:52Face up

08:53He was staged

08:55Byron Griffey was a pillar of the community

09:00Pretty much everybody knew who Byron Griffey was

09:03So at this point in the investigation

09:07Everybody's a suspect

09:09And then as we began to dig deeper

09:13We learned some of these people were hiding some deep dark secrets

09:18If one of them killed him

09:20Who was it?

09:22Who was it?

09:36When we found out that Byron was dead

09:40when we found out that byron was dead of course my first reaction is what the hell happened

09:56i was shocked charles actually got pretty emotional about it

10:03the thing that was going through my mind is we were right there

10:08after byron died charles and i thought we could help so we offered to go into cbi the very next day

10:21mark anthony nice to meet you anthony i wanted you to kind of help me with a timeline

10:27that's going to be helpful to us with our investigation okay

10:31byron griffey was a really good friend he would help people in need kind of the same theory we had

10:47charles and anthony were very intertwined with the community everybody knew them everybody has a

10:52story charles became mayor he was president of the chamber of commerce he even started a church down

10:59the street charles was a bishop i actually became a deacon we were there just about every sunday for

11:08church the sermons that charles would give were very inclusive very you know peace and love

11:17and my son eric worked for them so they owned several businesses in town the funeral home

11:24they owned smashing good guitars which was the guitar shop that i worked at they own the main street

11:30grill and they're huge collectors they collect everything i started collecting guitars guns

11:38dogs cats birds horses if i saw an animal that needed help i took it i even had a squirrel but

11:47there were 37 vehicles i had a big bowl of keys on the table i would just walk by and pick something

11:56out and walk out front and go oh yeah that's what i'm driving today my brother like introduced them

12:02got them super close into our family but at first it was just like dinner with charles and anthony oh you're

12:07going to a concert with charles and anthony and then we're spending holidays together charles liked to

12:13talk about his kids he would tell us how successful they were and he was proud of them but then that

12:19sadness because they weren't in his life you know something must have happened that that made them

12:25estranged to him charles was the brains and kind of the mouth the charismatic one he's doing the business

12:33deals but the person who like actually made the things happen that was tony

12:44it appears that you and charles were at his property right around the time that he dies so that puts

12:52you in a position to help us with the investigation when we were able to retrieve byron's phone we could

13:00see two calls one was about 12 43 ish the other one was a little after that were made from charles's

13:08phone two byron's that were missed calls so you and byron were good friends who who was closer to

13:15byron me okay well we spoke more okay we spoke more and what time do you think you got to the farm

13:22had to be right about noon sometime had you ever been to the farm before yeah a couple of times do you

13:29recall the last time probably

13:3645 minutes ago could you actually see the farmhouse from where you were could you tell

13:42if it was open or closed between the trees it looked close to me if it would have been open i

13:50would have probably figured he was there how long would you say you stayed in fowler

13:56oh no more than 15 20 minutes did you guys find that odd that you had plans to do this

14:04and now he's not answering the phone yeah kind of but we'd make plans for him to come up a few times

14:11and he just didn't didn't show yeah before we left town we drove around fowler because i knew that byron

14:21had a little house that he had moved into downtown but i couldn't remember where that was so just kind

14:27of drove around looking for it and then finally just decided to leave i'm right now focused on byron's

14:35state of mind would you say that he was capable of taking his own life yeah i think so it was in

14:43september he asked me if i could bring him a ham gun and i actually have a gun collection anthony and

14:49i collect guitars cars and guns and i told him no so you never gave him a gun no anthony would not okay

15:01so i'm going to give you my card and if anything comes to mind please call me you know what i'm just

15:06hoping to know the autopsy on byron indicated he was shot from the back and it was just a single

15:26back to front gunshot wound to the neck there was soot right on the entrance wound which means it's

15:32basically a contact wound so you couldn't really shoot yourself the way he was shot unless somebody

15:40was holding a gun at his neck on the back side i was in shock i thought who could do something like

15:53that i didn't view that people would want to hurt byron at all definitely it was not a robbery

16:02there was a watch on byron he had his wallet his phone was with it but obviously there had to be

16:09some kind of motive when we talked to his family members we began to realize what it was

16:20byron was a huge collector he collected stamps coins old money antiques

16:28my dad had a secret room in the back of the garage only a few people knew that the room was there

16:36and he had i don't even know how many safes in there byron bought a lot of silver and gold coins

16:44it was probably pretty close to a million dollars

16:56prior to byron being murdered there was multiple calls and somebody trying to break in to take his

17:03saves they tried to rob him but they didn't get nothing they made it more of a mess than anything

17:11i have no idea who did it but then there was a noose that was hung in the barn

17:25it was scary

17:28after the noose was found in the barn

17:32i just felt like my family wasn't safe out there at the farm where there wasn't really any neighbors

17:37so we all just decided to just move back to fowler

17:46byron was very scared he was very adamant that somebody was trying to steal his money

17:57when we found out my dad was shot even before anybody said do you know anybody who would want to

18:03hurt him the first person i thought of was corey higgs when we lived out at the farm we called the cops

18:12many times on corey i was scared of corey every day it was hard to think that it could have been corey because

18:23corey is my son

18:32right after byron's death gina and lynette were

18:36very quick to point fingers that corey higgs was the one that had murdered byron

18:42gina is my wife and corey is her son i really have trouble saying it i love her other two kids to

19:00death saying corey is my stepson makes me want to barf

19:05there was a lot of things going on in the griffey household before byron's murder

19:15when they were at the farm they were all living there

19:18lynette and gina and the kids with corey and byron and gina's mom

19:24i believed corey to be very dangerous on a few multiple levels uh stories i heard from other people

19:32and his own family in fact

19:38life with corey was not easy from ever

19:42he is extremely intelligent but also violent and manipulating corey pulled a knife on his siblings

19:59when he was younger he grabbed me by the neck and choked me out

20:04when he was 16 17 corey went into foster care and the court said least contact with us the better

20:16but for some reason the foster system here decided that it was good for him to spend time with my dad

20:27so corey always seemed like he needed a father figure

20:30a father figure until corey met byron corey told my dad he wanted to be a funeral director

20:39my dad always wanted somebody to take over his business so corey was this ray of hope for him

20:48they were really inseparable byron would take him on funeral calls so when they would do funeral business

20:56corey was dressed just like byron things started going south between corey and byron when corey

21:05attacked me he was in trouble for something got up went running for a gun which i stepped in front of

21:14him and stopped him he turned violent broke my shoulder after that byron was very hard on him

21:22i think corey felt that byron looked at him different which he did when corey aged out of foster care

21:31he moved right across the street from our farm so corey could have known that byron was at the farm that

21:38day i think corey's motivation for byron's murder would just be that that was just another way to hurt us

21:52okay corey do you have any idea why you're here today i think i may have an idea yeah

21:58i heard that byron griffey died okay i had known corey from previous incidents where i'd been to the

22:05farm and so i interviewed corey where were you yesterday i slept most of the day actually i was at my

22:16house in fowler was there anybody else sir i'm not during the day at about 3 45 or so my friend i

22:26went down for play practice so from friday morning until 3 45 when you were there by yourself did you

22:34talk to anybody on your cell phone i talked on the phone i texted but there was nobody really with you

22:42there was nobody with me like physically and i have my location settings on on my cell phone it

22:47doesn't really give an address and that's where i'm kind of running into trouble here

22:54at the time of the murder corey told me that he was watching tv at home

23:01at that time corey was living about a mile and a half down the road he could have walked to the

23:07farm and murdered byron and walked back you know with you not being able to tell me that i was with

23:16this person from this time to this time there's a window there okay cbi is involved they're probably

23:23going to want to talk to you would you be willing to submit to a polygraph test yeah yeah i definitely

23:28would yeah all right end of the interview corey was sad i think corey truly loved byron

23:41carol coates she's a good cop but he's a master manipulator and controls every situation

23:49he played her just like he does everybody else

23:51i feel guilty being his mom and feeling the way that i feel but i know he did it or had something

24:03to do with it i 100 believe that

24:07there were a lot of people at byron's funeral pretty much the whole town

24:22it was beautiful we asked charles to do the eulogy he got up there and told how he met my dad and what a

24:33great guy he was to help him out when they were trying to get started charles and anthony did a good

24:39job handling a service for another funeral director is the ultimate way of learning you did your job

24:48right if another funeral director or their family would trust you to do it that's a good sign in my

24:53opinion

24:54cbi told us sometimes the killer shows up at the funeral so keep your eyes and ears open as to

25:03what might be going on after the funeral we were all eating and socializing and this woman came up to

25:13me and said you know tommy did it

25:16she said tommy came home the other night and he was covered in blood tommy did it

25:29so tommy tomlin was harry tomlin's brother they are complete polar opposites

25:37i would trust harry with my life tommy tomlin is scary my brother tommy tomlin did have a drug problem

25:47meth heroin whatever drug was out there tommy was violent he was capable of doing anything

25:56tommy had been doing odd jobs for byron so tommy was obviously on the suspect list

26:04we were able to call tommy in colorado bureau of investigation did most of the interview

26:10thomas what's your last name

26:15having these rights in mind do we still talk to me now

26:18byron was like family to me byron griffey took care of a lot of funerals for my family

26:37he was a good man the day that byron was murdered i was the last person to see him alive

26:46i met byron at noon to get paid for the work i'd done for him when i heard the news there was a lot

26:54of stuff going through my life and then stories are going around of who did it one was my baby

27:01brother tommy tomlin tommy tomlin never had a steady job so when my dad needed help doing anything at

27:12the farm he just got tommy tommy was around when he needed money which was all the time

27:20when you do drugs you do things that you really shouldn't be doing he went to a party and was

27:30supposedly had blood all over him and told everybody the geno buying group he got murdered

27:35the rumors of tommy tomlin showing up to a party and being covered in blood were false

27:43we had heard that the day after byron's murder tommy was flashing around hundred dollar bills

27:49that he normally didn't have so we were questioning where tommy had gotten this money

27:54and so we did set tommy up for a polygraph

27:59so let me again introduce myself i'm joey sure so and it's thomas it's nice to meet you

28:10gorgeous eyes you have it thank you very much um i'm going to talk to you about the death of

28:16byron griffey okay just tell me in your own words why is it that you're being locked out as a suspect

28:23because i had all the money that i found in somebody else's house they think it's

28:29byron's money how good a friendship did you have with byron that one

28:34when did you last see him

28:39so you leave this house by 11.30 the next hour hour and a half bigger with one house

28:47i guess okay hold on back up what did you say

28:50you leave byron's about 11.30 yeah yeah don't worry about that one else you get home around 12 or 12.30

28:57right okay

28:59when you answer the questions and answer truthfully with the separate yes or not

29:05did you participate in any way in shooting byron

29:11this test is not complete

29:16mr tomlin um unfortunately it's pretty evident to me that there's something you are telling me about life

29:30i am not trying to put a murder on you i am trying to get to the truth that is all i want

29:46you are in my mind because i didn't shoot byron

29:49no i'm not

29:53shut up

29:54am i ready please

29:55look

29:56look you look

29:57i'm trying to make you understand i didn't shoot byron

30:00and i'm not going to look down for somebody else's bullshit

30:03and you're trying to get me to confess to something i didn't do

30:05i'm not trying to get you to confess anything other than the truth

30:07i'm here to get the truth whatever that is

30:09at this point in the investigation we did pull dna from everybody involved

30:27but the crime scene was very clean

30:30whomever killed byron was very meticulous on making sure that there wasn't much left behind

30:38so the results came in that there was no dna matches for anybody

30:45we didn't have a murder weapon we didn't have any real dna and it could tell us who was there

30:52with byron we were back at square one so without physical evidence you start looking at circumstantial

31:02we start looking at timelines

31:03the last person that saw byron griffey alive

31:10was harry tomlin they met at the bank in downtown fowler and that was about 12 10.

31:16byron had him in my check and he goes i'm gonna go to lunch

31:23he typically told me he was going to meet up with anthony and his brother

31:27we believe that byron probably arrived back at the farm approximately 12 15 to meet with charles and anthony

31:36byron's phone showed two missed calls from charles's cell phone number

31:43since byron had his cell phone on him byron probably didn't answer the call at 12 43 because

31:50he was probably dead the body wasn't discovered until approximately 8 pm by gina and lynette

32:02so from the time that byron was last seen in fowler and the first call being missed at 12 43

32:10that's what how long it would have taken to murder him

32:13tommy said that he was at an abandoned house with a friend during the time byron was murdered

32:22corey higgs he was home alone but he was living down the road from the farm

32:30everybody's a suspect until you can rule them out but trying to definitively rule them out was very very

32:38hard it was something that we just continued to pursue i think many people in town started to

32:47wonder what happened to all of byron's gold where did it all go now that's the million dollar question

32:54so after my dad's murdered gina and i were trying to find my dad's money a year before my dad was

33:10murdered he was really worried that whoever it broke in before was going to come back and take all of his

33:17coins or somehow corey knew it was there and so corey was going to take it and there was no way that

33:25he could take that to a safety deposit box or something like that and so my dad called charles and anthony

33:36byron asked if we could watch some coins for him

33:40i had a gun room as what everybody called it in the basement of my house

33:51my dad wanted to make sure that his money was in a secure place

33:55they talked about a secret room in their house to where nobody would ever see it

34:00and so charles and anthony agreed

34:02they had a call at like 10 o'clock at night charles and tony they're like hey come over and give us

34:11a hand it was just boxes on boxes of quarters 500 boxes of quarters from each state i mean i'm

34:19talking a whole truck bed i was like why is this all in points like this is ridiculous charles explained

34:25to me well if you put all your money into quarters then it's technically a coin collection so it can't be

34:31taxed byron did not keep a full record of what he sent to charles and anthony he called them several

34:41times after they took the coins and said hey can i come up i need to document you know what i gave you

34:49charles and anthony were always busy they always had a funeral or something

34:54it begins to paint the picture that charles and anthony might be hiding something

35:03how long would you say you stayed in fowler hello no more than 15 20 minutes

35:11charles and anthony drove an hour to take byron for a birthday lunch the fact that they didn't even walk

35:19up to the house it was a little strange charles and anthony said this is where we're going to meet

35:27it's odd to me that that's where they met because we didn't live at the farm anymore the far as you

35:32made it was the gate yes now you know there was another way to get on his property that didn't involve

35:39nothing charles and anthony had been out to the farm at least three times the only entrance ever

35:49accessible was the back entrance that's the only entrance they used when they came to get the coins

35:57that's the only entrance they used to leave

36:00one of the tools that my agency uses is a polygraph sure if at some point we got to that would that be

36:12something you'd be willing to i would want a definite reason as to why i told him no because

36:19polygraph it doesn't prove or disprove anything and then he asked would you give a dna sample i said

36:26absolutely that's not subjective that's actual so we did give dna samples and soon it became pretty

36:36clear that maybe i was considered a suspect cbi had reached out to me a couple of times asking what did

36:53i know about charles and tony i was shocked i couldn't imagine that either one of those brothers

37:02would do anything to byron my family they were always like you know we had nothing to do with the

37:08murder yeah i don't know honestly i'm kind of surprised we didn't talk about it more we've known

37:14these brothers for years we were really close to charles and anthony and anthony was so kind

37:23and he really inspired me to be kinder and more patient not so jaded because my job was a little dark

37:33laura was a probation officer i was talking with her about how i can deal with being a suspect

37:43we started talking more i gave her my phone number which i'd never done before so

37:49we could text when we just began texting and at some point i was starting to have feelings for her

37:57but that's how it started

38:06i was away at college and i could tell that something was up with my mom

38:11she wasn't acting like herself anymore

38:18the first week of the semester i had missed a call from my mom's good friend mandy i remember checking

38:24the voicemail i knew something horrible had happened

38:32i'm just getting information really slowly and i'm trying to talk to my mom and she won't pick

38:53up my calls

39:02i got a surprise phone call from one of my mom's friends and uh my mom's friend she's like eric

39:11your mom is hysterical she's just like screaming and crying he's gonna kill himself like you know i

39:17never meant for this to happen and i'm like what are you talking about we're going down the street

39:23looking for my mother she had got like even more hysterical crazy to where like they're trying to

39:29get her into an ambulance they didn't take her to the hospital they took her to the jail to question her

39:45i understand that do you know aunt yes my oldest son um works for him and his brother okay

39:56he had been talking a lot more and texted on december 26th he told me that he loved me and he'd been in

40:08love with me for three years and i suggest that i've been in love with him for the last three years as

40:15well but so we immediately started to make plans for the future to get there

40:20i think who's helping his mom charles gave him a lot but i thought that was his brother

40:40charles and tony are not brothers

40:45they're together they're lovers

40:50yeah they're not brothers correct

40:56no how long did you go on about charles and anthony's relationship

41:03two o'clock this afternoon

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