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00:00shock. I didn't view that people would want to hurt Byron at all. Byron Griffey took care of a
00:06lot of funerals for my family. He was a good man. There's a darker side to Byron that people didn't
00:13know. The relationship between Tommy and Byron turned into eating turkey pot pies and watching
00:19porn. I didn't see that Tommy had any motive to do it. When we found out my dad was shot,
00:26the first person I thought of was Corey Higgs. Did you ever think of getting even with something?
00:32Yes. Corey is my son. Charles and Anthony's stories were falling apart. Why would you lie about
00:40something as stupid as what vehicle you drove? I don't believe I was lying. It must have been
00:46mistaken. They were the last ones to see Byron, so that made it a possibility. After Byron died,
00:52they start buying boats and they start spending money like crazy. He had a motive to kill my dad.
00:57It's all about money. I don't like to use the term fighting for your life, but that's what it felt
01:04like. We were ready to make arrests, but now we had another dead body on our hands.
01:22There was a police officer in Florence in the city manager's office. He gets a phone call that they're
01:39calling medical to Charles and Anthony's house. So I go race into the scene and I find Charles on the
01:48floor of the bathroom. It was obvious that he was deceased. The ambulance came and the police covered
01:56the whole property with caution tape. I remember being out on the yard, you know, and everybody
02:03hoping, hoping, hoping that it was good news. And I just remember just shaking my head like there's no
02:13good news. It was terribly sad. It was terribly sad.
02:18At that time, Charles was mayor. And that afternoon, I went to the city council meeting. And about halfway
02:29through the meeting, the chief of police comes in. He said, look, we found Charles dead.
02:35I couldn't believe it. After I got that phone call, I drove to Charles and Anthony's house.
02:43I don't have any idea why. And I sat across the street from their house. I just cried and cried
02:51the anger. Like, how could you do this so that you didn't have to answer? For my dad, if you were
02:57going to kill yourself today, you could have told me last night. I never in a million years saw this
03:03coming. The fact that Charles died was just a punch in the stomach.
03:12We're drafting the arrest warrant for both of them to be charged with murder at that time.
03:17When Charles's death occurred, we kind of took a step back. It was like, what else, you know,
03:23are we going to see in this case? Well, I was at work. Somebody called me and said Charles died.
03:29I mean, I was shocked, just stunned. My first thought was suicide. Some of us knew that he was
03:38being investigated for murder of Byron Griffey. And I felt like he took the easy way out.
03:45Charles may not have ever seen a way out. I mean, how could you ever recover from the mountain of lies?
03:53You start with the brothers. I mean, think about it. Keeping up appearances, that's all they had done
04:00since they had got to Florence. The whole church thing, was it all just fake? Will we ever know
04:07the truth of what happened to Irene Witte? What happened to all of Byron's gold? These were
04:12life-changing lies. Well, where's the end? The end for Charles was his death.
04:17The last time I talked to Charles was the day before he died. And he told me,
04:26I'm not going to cause you any more trouble. We can work through this. We can take care of the
04:31business dealings and do what needs to be done. And that was pretty much it.
04:39I really wasn't sad about Charles passing away because that was a part of my life that I'd already
04:46chosen to leave. I know that sounds heartless, but after what I had been through, that was just a
04:53small hiccup in the general scheme. Laura and I were trying to get things worked out and figured out
05:02where we were going to go from there.
05:03At this point in the investigation, we brought the last person that saw Charles alive in to
05:15interview him. A guy named CJ Young.
05:20Charles and I, we've been friends forever. I've known him since I was 12. They were my scoutmasters,
05:26boy scouts. So I've been staying with Charles since him and Tony broke up.
05:33So you were there last night? Yeah.
05:37Anything to think of that's helpful?
05:40Sometime after 1030, Charles hollered at me and said, CJ, help. I can't move. I can't breathe. I can't
05:46move. I thought he was having a panic attack. And I got him sat down and he said he started to feel
05:53better. So he got up and he was walking around. He did tell me, man, I'm not taking this well.
05:58Did you consider him to be depressed this week? He may have been depressed, but I don't know.
06:05As far as Charles' death, your cop brain is thinking he's guilty, so he killed himself.
06:11Part of you thinks he had medications. Did he overdose? Who knows? I mean, it's all suspicious
06:16any way you look at it. I didn't think that Charles was suicidal. The police were trying to
06:22push him to crack, basically, for no reason. He didn't do the crime.
06:28The next week after Tony left, Charles was getting everything set up to go forward without Tony.
06:35He didn't plan to die.
06:38I had heard from my son, Eric, that Charles got his hair frosted. Charles got his ears pierced.
06:43Charles ordered a teeth whitening kit. Charles called this guy and asked him, you know,
06:51where does an old queen like me go to hook up these days? No, I wouldn't say he committed suicide.
06:59I got the impression he had plans.
07:01We all got to have to answer for whatever happens. But if you have a good life and all of a sudden
07:10it's brought to an end, it's sad. It's very sad. Look it, he was only 52. He had wonderful cars,
07:18beautiful church and a mansion, lovely mortuary, having stuff. And more stuff isn't the answer.
07:27Guess we found that out.
07:30Charles's death made me stop and think, did Anthony have something to do with this?
07:36I heard people talking about how that must be nice. Now you don't have to deal with any of that.
07:43Well, it wasn't nice. I was considered a suspect.
07:47It very clearly looks like Anthony would be the one that gains the most,
07:51because I know that with Charles alive, that was going to be a huge battle.
07:59Tony definitely had a motive to get rid of Charles because everything was in Charles's name. I think if
08:05Charles was still alive, Tony could have ended up with nothing. Tony is unassuming and you wouldn't
08:13think he's dangerous. But as far as Charles and Anthony's relationship, Anthony was the muscle.
08:19If there was somebody who was going to get their hands dirty or bloody, it was going to be Anthony.
08:27Anthony had a lot to gain from Charles dying. Now Anthony could point the fingers at Charles for
08:34Byron's death. I knew that because Charles was gone, Tony was now the prime suspect in the murder of Byron
08:42Griffey. It was hard to kind of look at Tony and not sit there and question like, what's going on? Like,
08:49are you a murderer?
09:01After Charles died, there were a lot of rumors.
09:06One of the rumors around town was that he'd offed his self because he killed Byron Griffey.
09:11Or maybe he offed his self because Tony broke up with him. You know, small town stories.
09:17There was a lot of rumors about my brother Tommy with Anthony and his half brother. Everybody in
09:24town calls it the love triangle. Supposedly he had, it was a love triangle between Anthony and Charles
09:31Byron and my brother Tommy. That would actually be a love square.
09:35Yeah, it's square, but they called it the love triangle. Because there's four, yes.
09:39You know, every rumor ever just starts coming out. Like Charles and Anthony teaming up with Lynette and
09:45Gina to kill Byron. As a gay person myself, it's just borderline offensive that that's what people
09:53thought. You couldn't really talk to anyone that didn't think that something was up with Charles's
09:59death. And the only person you could really look at was Anthony. It was really easy to think that if
10:05anyone had the access, opportunity, and motive to tamper with his medicine, it would be Anthony.
10:13And it would look like what happened.
10:21After Charles's death, the autopsy report came back. There was no poison in his system,
10:28and that he had died of natural causes. It was a massive heart attack that killed Charles.
10:34Under all that stress, your lover left you for another person. You're probably going to go to
10:39prison for murder. That's a lot of stress on a guy who already had a bad heart.
10:47The official story is that his heart gave out. If you want to romanticize it, died of a broken heart.
10:58The CBI used Charles' death to be able to get warrants and to go search my old house.
11:04In the basement, they had what they called the gun room.
11:14They had guns in boxes. They had them on the rack. They had them all over the place.
11:20During that search warrant in Charles' bedroom, in the back of the closet, they found a hidden
11:26compartment. And in that hidden compartment were several boxes of coins, one of which had Byron
11:36Griffey's name on it. They were hidden. Why weren't they turned back over to his daughter?
11:48My dad trusted them. They were his friends, and they were helping him
11:52by making sure that his money was safe. But they already had stolen from him.
11:58There's no explanation as to where my dad's money went.
12:03I believe that Byron probably had close to a million dollars in collectible stamps and coins
12:09and currency. And he had a lot of gold. Lynette and Gina never saw any gold return to them.
12:16What happened to all the gold? I suspect Charles and Tony had a lot to do with Byron's gold disappearing.
12:23Neither of us took anything of Byron's. When the investigator came in and took a bunch of coins,
12:30there was one that did have Byron's name on it, but the other coins were actually my collection.
12:35They had Lynette Griffey identify them as Byron's coins, but they weren't. They were mine.
12:44The coins that Byron had a store for him, Byron ended up selling most of it to
12:53some guy out of the springs. But I wasn't even there when he came to pick it up. I was working on the
12:58crematory that day. Anthony's default position on anything potentially criminal in this case was
13:06he knows nothing and saw nothing, including the death of Byron Griffey.
13:20Charles' memorial was held at Florence High School in the auditorium. And you know, it had a really
13:32huge turnout. He was the mayor at the time. They owned multiple businesses along Main Street.
13:37They had the church. And so most of the town was there.
13:41I stayed away from Charles' funeral just because I didn't want to turn it into a circus. I knew there
13:51was going to be police there. One of the church members was speaking to everyone and he said,
13:58Charles' brother must just be so upset that he couldn't make it. And you know, our hearts are with
14:03him. And me just shaking my head in disbelief that the entire town is in this room and they all
14:11believe something that's not true. Some of the members of the community wanted to put a statue
14:17up of him out by City Hall. And it's like, I'll wait a few weeks. You might see his face on the front
14:23page for something else. Charles was very good at telling stories. And no one really thought to
14:32question him. Charles once told me about his ex-wife and the two kids that he had.
14:37It was just like these grand stories. So you would get sucked into them, but they were always
14:43a little unbelievable. The son, he said, was in the Air Force, a pilot or something.
14:52And then the daughter was a scientist. Charles would pretend that he was talking to one of them
14:57or that he just got off the phone with one of them. We always believed the story about Charles
15:04having two children and one in the Air Force.
15:15But it was a lie. Huge lie.
15:22Our view was that Charles had been the mastermind of all of it. And that when his death occurred,
15:27my entire focus became how to prosecute this crime.
15:32We had to reevaluate if we had enough evidence to charge just Anthony in the death of Byron Griffey.
15:38He was trying to get me to admit to something that he didn't f***ing admit.
15:42I want to know what happened. There's no one else to protect now. You're on your own.
15:48After Charles died, I was just trying to survive, pretty much. Still trying to run the businesses.
16:05But the last two payrolls, I had to cover myself out of my own pocket. And that's when I decided to
16:12close the funeral home. I don't know. It just didn't seem like a place I wanted to be anymore.
16:19I found the person that I believe I was meant to be with for the rest of my life.
16:25Charles and Anthony kept that relationship a secret for over 20 years.
16:31I'm not going to lie. I was pretty devastated. And I wasn't devastated about the type of relationship.
16:37It was the fact that it was a lie. Then I thought, would my life be better with him or without it?
16:45And there was no, there was no delay. Anthony and my mom rushed to get married.
16:53My mom had me be her wedding photographer. From their point of view, a murder investigation
16:58was a side thing that was like, don't worry about this murder.
17:02They didn't have squat for evidence. I kept thinking, did the cops come up with something
17:08else? Is there something else? And there never was anything, anything else that I heard.
17:17Charles's death made us reanalyze everything. So there was a significant delay before we
17:23ultimately filed the charges.
17:25I got a call from chief of police from Florence. And he told me, we've got your coins here.
17:38If you can come down and pick them up. So I get in the car, I go down and that's when I was arrested.
17:45It was all set up just to get me to come in with Charles, unfortunately deceased.
18:05You're the only other person that knows anything. I want to know what really happened that day.
18:09I told you everything I know. I've got nothing more to add.
18:14We're here? Charles is dead?
18:18Yeah, thanks for that.
18:21What do you mean by that?
18:23What you pestering in the cause that...
18:25Well, I'm sorry to feel that way. I don't think that's what the coroner felt.
18:29Our investigation determined that you and Charles conspired and caused the death of Byron Griffey last
18:36talked over. It's our belief that when this goes to a jury, they're going to say the same thing that
18:42we're saying in the end. Your story is just not matching with what the evidence is showing.
18:51I've got a direct line to the district attorney. This would be the time for me to call them and
18:57tell them that you want to tell us something. There's nothing else to do.
19:06I've got a direct line to the district attorney.
19:10Once we knew Anthony was going on trial, he very quickly started liquidating anything that he could,
19:16and with the help of my mom, trying to get enough money to pay for his defense.
19:22The first attorney I had said, people always ask, how much does it cost
19:26to defend against a charge of first-degree murder? And he said everything. And he wasn't kidding.
19:32And everything started getting sold to try and pay attorney's fees. All of the vehicles.
19:41It was everything.
19:42I have been a criminal defense investigator for about 45 years. Lawyers representing people charged
19:58hire me to investigate the case for the defense. I've met with thousands of clients, and some of them
20:08would just flat say, you know, I did it, and it's your job to help me get off. But that wasn't Anthony. Anthony
20:19was there wrong. We didn't do it. And he was determined to be found innocent of something he kept maintaining
20:29that he didn't do. The case against Anthony was circumstantial. Juries like meat. They want to be
20:38able to find DNA at the scene, fingerprints, hair fibers, something to put the suspect there. And
20:46in this case, there was no such evidence. Everything in my mind pointed to Charles and Anthony
20:52is committing the crime. The fact that they're there at the farm. Easy access to a weapon. He had motive.
20:59I believed I was going to be able to meet that obligation of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
21:07Anytime somebody's charged with crime, the defense attorneys have an obligation
21:11to investigate. So I spent a good five months trying to contact witnesses, going through police reports,
21:22documents, photographs, videos. And finally, I stumble into a 911 call made by a fella named Rob.
21:33A few months after the murder.
21:41Okay, and you don't want to get a last name?
21:42No.
21:44You're at the corner in Fallard. They got murdered. I know for a fact that y'all have,
21:50uh, I don't know his last name. His name's Tom. He's from Fallard also. Y'all have interviewed him.
21:57He basically said, I have information that Tommy Tomlin is involved in Byron's murder.
22:06The thing I'm worried about is him finding out he even made his call, dude,
22:10because this dude's a psycho, man. I'm telling you. He's scared to death, dude. I don't know who
22:14to charge him. I'm scared of him.
22:15Okay, you can trust us. I mean, you know, head forward, head forward. He kept
22:19swimming to you anywhere it may be. If you choose a place, he'll be worried about you wherever.
22:23Okay. We knew Rob could change everything. So, of course, I want to find Rob.
22:39911 information. Just wanted to give you some information, man. It may be worth something to
22:44you. It may not. A few months after Byron's death, a fella named Rob called the 911 operator and said,
22:52I have information that Tommy Tomlin is involved in Byron's murder and that he told me he was.
23:03So, I, of course, had been looking for Rob. And as it turned out, Rob died about a year before I was
23:12able to try to interview him. And I couldn't go into any more detail than what appeared in the police
23:19reports. Those reports were just handwritten notes. The deputy that took the statement from him,
23:26he said he didn't pay attention to it and didn't take it serious because he was just a drunk.
23:31I needed to do everything I possibly could do to prove Anthony's innocence. And that was hard to do.
23:41There was also a confidential informant who said that Byron wanted him to kill Corey.
23:54Corey was Byron's grandson. So, there's some evidence that Byron was talking to a hitman.
24:02Byron was extremely depressed. Did Byron talk that fella into helping him commit suicide,
24:14knowing that he was willing to kill? But that confidential informant also died before I was
24:22able to contact him. Early on, the investigators were trying to determine if this was an assisted
24:30suicide because there was no evidence of Byron Griffey fighting and no evidence of him attempting to get
24:37away. I don't think there's any way at all my dad would have ever been suicidal. He was a mortician long
24:46enough to know what that did to families. He'd have never done that.
25:01As a prosecutor, our obligation is that we do not bring a case to trial that we don't have a belief
25:08that we're going to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. And I believed I had the evidence.
25:13The stakes were pretty high. I don't like to use the term fighting for your life, but that's what it felt like.
25:22The defense team had two alternate suspects, Tommy Tomlin and Corey, Gina's son.
25:30There were other suspects, but none of them ever rose to the level that would show us that they were
25:37a valid alternate suspect. Throughout the course of the day that the homicide took place,
25:42Tommy was always with someone from the start to finish. That removed him as a suspect in our eyes.
25:49We didn't think Corey had the ability to do it, and there was no evidence whatsoever that indicated
25:54that he was there. The judge allowed us to kind of talk about them being closed chambers without the
26:03jury present, but then wouldn't allow us to use it in court.
26:12There was a significant amount of circumstantial evidence that pointed toward
26:16Charles Giebler and Anthony Wright. They were at the scene of the crime during the time that the crime
26:23occurred. There's about an hour of time that I need you to account for.
26:28I hardly remember that, Dave. We have inconsistencies in the car that they drove.
26:33Do you remember telling me what vehicle you drove out there?
26:36It was the black Mercedes.
26:37It was the black before all the cities?
26:40Okay. So I pulled the Savannah's video. I know you're not in the black Mercedes.
26:44You're driving the white astro man. It must have been mistaken. I could have sworn I was in that
26:50car. When they're both confronted with it, the response is exactly the same.
26:54You did not drive the Mercedes. We were always in the Mercedes, usually,
26:57but we may have taken a dime. You know, after the fact,
27:01they realized we made a mistake in our statements. So let's both get back on the same page and have the
27:06same response. And a lot of the details just don't make sense.
27:11Charles and Anthony had been to the farm plenty of times. And for them to say,
27:27oh, the gate was locked, whatever, I don't buy it. Charles and Anthony drove an hour to get their
27:34good friend to take him for a birthday lunch. They didn't drive around to the other gate.
27:41Or even walk up to the house.
27:45There was almost an entire hour that was unaccounted for.
27:49You had to have gone somewhere else between Fowler and the Govete.
27:54We drove around a little bit of sight with the team. We were just going to head home because we
27:58had a few more work to do. Turned around in Pueblo West and went back.
28:02Either one could say where they were for that hour that was lost. So it gave us more indication
28:10that they were hiding something from us.
28:12Did you ever been to the farm before?
28:14Yeah, a couple of years.
28:15Had you been in the house?
28:17Yes.
28:18Before you went to Byron's farm this day, how many times do you think roughly you and
28:26Charles went out to the farm?
28:27I know that I was at the farm twice before. Maybe three times. But I'd only been there a couple
28:36of times. I'd never actually been in the house before.
28:39There's layer after layer after layer of lie and deceit. You start with the brothers,
28:50and then you go all the way down to the death of Charles and everything in between.
29:04As we dug into Charles and Anthony's past, we found that they had been crime scene
29:09cleaners for the Utah coroner's office. They had the knowledge and the know-how to
29:16clean a crime scene so that there wouldn't be any evidence left behind.
29:23These were individuals who were comfortable around death. I suspect that they were gloved
29:30up with latex gloves, and there was a real attempt to avoid fingerprints and DNA.
29:35My gut feeling was there had to be more than one person involved. When somebody dies, that is
29:44dead weight. So that dead weight becomes a very difficult thing to move. But if somebody moved him,
29:50you could find some drag marks. There was none of those. So it looked like several people moved him to
29:56that final resting position. Those all made us to the conclusion that it was Charles Giebler and Anthony Wright.
30:05But did Tony kill Byron? I always thought he did. Charles had it in to order Tony to do it.
30:14But I'm not sure if Charles would have pulled the trigger. Tony was more cold than calculated.
30:20Not once during the trials or anything did Anthony ever say, I didn't do it.
30:31Like, if you were innocent, you would plead at some point and say, I did not do this.
30:37The trial, I mean, it was an agonizing couple of weeks. The jury goes in to deliberate. And that was
30:46the first time it really hit me that that's what I was facing, was life in prison.
30:56The jury in Anthony's trial, they were out two days. Very, very stressful.
31:03I'm looking at real punishment if I'm found guilty. They're going to send me to prison for life.
31:15We were all there, the whole family. I was confident that Anthony was going to be convicted.
31:23Anthony's just sweating, nervous, of course. So the jury comes back.
31:33It was a hung jury, and I was extremely upset.
31:42They hung, meaning the jury couldn't make a unanimous decision.
31:50Everybody sat there completely dumbfounded.
31:53When they came back as a hung jury, I didn't know how the system worked. I'm thinking, sweet,
31:59it's over. I'm going home. Nope. The district attorney right away stated that he was going to try it again.
32:07You just don't know what to even think at that point. It was very traumatizing.
32:14Bottom line, man, you're going to have to get another couple hundred thousand dollars together
32:19to defend yourself the next time. I was ready for another trial, but the attorney kept telling me,
32:27if you have to go back after a mistrial, it very rarely goes in the defendant's favor.
32:35Tony was just burned out. He was tired. He was exhausted. He was just like, I can't keep doing this.
32:42And then the head DA there, for whatever reason, offers Anthony a plea bargain.
32:54We made the decision that we had to get any conviction we can. And my primary goal in doing
33:01that was to have Anthony Wright make a statement that says, yes, I'm responsible.
33:10Conspiracy to commit murder didn't require jail time, but it would be a few years of probation.
33:18Anthony didn't want to do it. The attorneys and myself basically started begging him to take the plea
33:27offer. I mean, I used to say no way I plead guilty to something I didn't do. Well, you're not looking
33:33down the barrel of 25 to life. It's real. I wasn't given up by any means, but I didn't see a way out.
33:43I just had to take the plea.
33:44My thoughts of Anthony taking a plea deal was, what did he pay the DA? That's truly what I think.
34:03You take somebody's life and you get, what, 10 years of probation? That was sick to my stomach.
34:08How could something like that happen? Take a person's life and it really has no value.
34:22All of justice costs money. You want to prove yourself innocent over something,
34:26you could lose everything. And where would it get you? So sometimes you take the easy way.
34:33Amid to something, get it over with and put it behind you. Only God knows.
34:43We all wrote letters to the judge and he said, you've agreed to the plea bargain. And I said,
34:48we didn't agree to the plea bargain. Bullock agreed to that plea bargain. The district attorney,
34:55James Bullock, screwed us over. I don't think that Anthony is innocent.
35:03I don't think Charles was innocent. Do I want to really ask Anthony anything? I would like an answer.
35:13I would like me to just fess up, be a man, tell me he did it and why. He's too much of a coward though.
35:21I guess that's why they shot him in the back of the head and that's why he won't tell me.
35:35Did you kill Byron Griffey?
35:40Uh, absolutely 100%, without question, did not kill Byron Griffey. And Charles did not either.
35:49I didn't do it. I don't know who did it. I have an idea who I think might have.
35:58The suspects that I believe possibly had a part in Byron's murder were Tommy Tomlin,
36:06Corey Higgs and Byron's daughter Lynette. The biggest motive Lynette had was financial reasons.
36:16Byron told me I was tired of just having to continually support her and put money out for
36:22every little whim. And he was talking about just not doing that anymore.
36:26We did not hear any stories at all of Byron Griffey cutting her off in any way. She was at work all day,
36:35the day that Byron was murdered. Lynette had an airtight alibi, unlike Charles Giebler and Anthony
36:42right.
36:53Here are the facts. Charles and Anthony had hundreds of thousands, close to a million dollars worth of
36:58this guy's money. Yes, other people had reason to do something terrible to Byron. Can't argue that.
37:07But the people who gained the most financially, it was them.
37:14It was all about lies and greed and deceit. And I'm not sure if we'll ever know really the full truth,
37:26the full extent of it. There's one person that knows the truth 100%. That's Anthony Wright.
37:36I don't suppose that we can ever trust a damn thing that he says. How could you really trust anything
37:47that he says at this point?
38:00How could you really trust anything that he says at this point?
38:12Having Laura there gave me something to focus on, trying to start our life together.
38:18You know, it's a good distraction. It still is.
38:22That's sage from the Lake Pueblo. That doesn't even smell like sage anymore. Oh, there it is.
38:34So this summer, it'll be 12 years that Tony and I have been married.
38:39So, I mean, Anthony and I, all we ever, ever wanted was to be together. That was it. We just
38:45wanted to be together. And we are. And we always will be.
38:48I said this at the very beginning because, you know, right away, the attorneys are like,
38:54well, we got paid and you didn't go to prison. So all's good. Yes, he gets to walk around and have
39:01a job and, you know, kiss me goodnight every night or whatever. I said, but do not think for a minute
39:08that this was some kind of damn gift. This is not a best case scenario. Give me a break.
39:19I don't know that there'll ever be closure because we didn't get justice.
39:25Anthony gets to walk around and do whatever he wants to do.
39:30I would have really liked for my dad to get justice. There was no justice.
39:35It doesn't matter that it's 12 years later. It hurts just as bad today.
39:45I'd do anything I could to prove my innocence. But, you know, everybody's gonna think
39:51something different. I struggle a lot still with, is Anthony innocent or is he guilty?
39:56We're a decade later and we just have questions and some things that probably will never be able to
40:03be answered because it's too late. Who killed Byron? I'm convinced Anthony didn't, but there's
40:12no evidence and probably never will be unless somebody makes a deathbed statement declaring that
40:21they did it. There's so many rabbit holes in this case to chase down that I suspect if we were to
40:26reopen the case, there's additional evidence that we would find that would just be more than we could
40:30deal with. I'd like to say that the moral of this story is don't trust somebody who says that they're
40:36your friend, but then what kind of life do you have? Like, I'm still going to trust and I'm still going
40:41to be giving and loving and caring because that's what my dad would have wanted.
40:45A lot of this could have been avoided if people could just be themselves and tell the truth.
40:54Truth is the thing that everyone seeks. It's hard to come by. Just be honest,
41:02say what happened or what didn't happen. Because someday they're going to have to answer to their
41:08maker for whatever they did. Both you and I were going to have to answer for our misdeeds and our mistakes.
41:14Monday, they will kill.
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