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00:01He's dead, he's dead, there's blood everywhere.
00:04I was in shock.
00:05I didn't view that people would want to hurt Byron at all.
00:09Byron Griffey took care of a lot of funerals for my family.
00:12He was a good man.
00:15There's a darker side to Byron that people didn't know.
00:19The relationship between Tommy and Byron
00:21turned into eating turkey pot pies and watching porn.
00:25I didn't see that Tommy had any motive to do it.
00:29When we found out my dad was shot,
00:31the first person I thought of was Corey Higgs.
00:33Did you ever think of getting even with someone?
00:37Yes.
00:38Corey is my son.
00:41Charles and Anthony's stories were falling apart.
00:44Why would you lie about something as stupid as what vehicle you drove?
00:47I don't believe I was lying.
00:50It must have been mistaken.
00:52They were the last ones to see Byron,
00:54so that made it a possibility.
00:56After Byron died, they start buying boats
00:58and they start spending money like crazy.
01:00They had a motive to kill my dad.
01:02It's all about money.
01:04I don't like to use the term fighting for your life,
01:07but that's what it felt like.
01:09We were ready to make arrests,
01:11but now we had another dead body on our hands.
01:14There was a police officer in Florence in the city manager's office.
01:29He gets a phone call that they're calling medical to Charles and Anthony's house.
01:47So I go race into the scene and I find Charles on the floor of the bathroom.
01:54It was obvious that he was deceased.
01:56The ambulance came and the police covered the whole property with costume tape.
02:03I remember being out on the yard, you know, and everybody hoping, hoping, hoping that it was good news.
02:12And I just remember just shaking my head like there's no good news.
02:19It was terribly sad.
02:21It was terribly sad.
02:23At that time, Charles was mayor.
02:28And that afternoon, I went to the city council meeting.
02:32And about halfway through the meeting, the chief of police comes in.
02:37He said, look, we've found Charles dead.
02:42I couldn't believe it.
02:44After I got that phone call, I drove to Charles and Anthony's house.
02:48I don't have any idea why.
02:51And I said across the street from their house, I just cried and cried the anger.
02:57Like, how could you do this so that you didn't have to answer?
03:01For my dad, if you were going to kill yourself today, you could have told me last night.
03:06I never in a million years saw this coming.
03:09The fact that Charles died was just a punch in the stomach.
03:15We're drafting the arrest warrant for both of them to be charged with murder at that time.
03:22When Charles' death occurred, we kind of took a step back.
03:25It was like, what else, you know, are we going to see in this case?
03:29Well, I was at work.
03:31Somebody called me and said Charles died.
03:34I mean, I was just shocked, just stunned.
03:38My first thought was suicide.
03:41But some of us knew that he was being investigated for murder of Byron Griffey.
03:46And I felt like he took the easy way out.
03:49Charles may not have ever seen a way out.
03:52I mean, how could you ever recover from the mountain of lies?
03:58You start with the brothers.
04:01I mean, think about it.
04:03Keeping up appearances, that's all they had done since they had got to Florence.
04:07The whole church thing, was it all just fake?
04:11Will we ever know the truth of what happened to Irene Witte?
04:15What happened to all of Byron's gold?
04:17These were life-changing lies.
04:19Well, where's the end?
04:21The end for Charles was his death.
04:23The last time I talked to Charles was the day before he died.
04:30And he told me, I'm not going to cause you any more trouble.
04:33We can work through this.
04:35We can take care of the business dealings and do what needs to be done.
04:39And that was pretty much it.
04:42I really wasn't sad about Charles passing away because that was a part of my life that I had already chosen to leave.
04:52I know that sounds heartless, but after what I had been through, that was just a small hiccup in the general scheme.
05:01Laura and I were trying to get things worked out and figured out where we were going to go from there.
05:14At this point in the investigation, we brought the last person that saw Charles alive in to interview him.
05:21A guy named CJ Young.
05:25Charles and I, we've been friends forever.
05:27I've known him since I was 12.
05:29They were my scoutmasters, boy scouts.
05:31Okay.
05:32So, I've been staying with Charles since him and Tony broke up.
05:38So, you were there last night?
05:41Yeah.
05:42Anything to think of that's helpful?
05:44Sometime after 10.30, Charles hollered at me and said,
05:48CJ, help.
05:49I can't move.
05:50I can't breathe.
05:51I can't move.
05:52I thought he was having a panic attack and I got him sat down and he said he started to feel better.
05:58So, he got up and he was walking around.
06:00He did tell me, man, I'm not taking this well.
06:03Did you consider him to be depressed this week?
06:06He may have been depressed, but I don't know.
06:10As far as Charles' death, your cop brain is thinking he's guilty so he killed himself.
06:16Part of you thinks he had medications.
06:18Did he overdose?
06:19Who knows?
06:20I mean, it's all suspicious, any way you look at it.
06:23I didn't think that Charles was suicidal.
06:26The police were trying to push him to crack, basically, for no reason.
06:31He didn't do the crime.
06:33The next week after Tony left, Charles was getting everything set up to go forward without Tony.
06:40He didn't plan to die.
06:42I had heard from my son, Eric, that Charles got his hair frosted, Charles got his ears pierced.
06:48Charles ordered a teeth whitening kit.
06:50Charles called this guy and asked him, you know, where does an old queen like me go to hook up these days?
07:00No, I wouldn't say he committed suicide.
07:02I got the impression he had plans.
07:09We all gotta have to answer for whatever happens, but if you have a good life and all of a sudden it's brought to an end, it's sad.
07:17It's very sad.
07:19Look it, he was only 52.
07:21He had wonderful cars, beautiful church and a mansion, lovely mortuary, having stuff.
07:29And more stuff isn't the answer.
07:32Guess we found that out.
07:34Charles' death made me stop and think, did Anthony have something to do with this?
07:42I heard people talking about how it must be nice, now you don't have to deal with any of that.
07:48Well, it wasn't nice.
07:50I was considered a suspect.
07:52It very clearly looks like Anthony would be the one that gains the most because I know that with Charles alive, that was going to be a huge battle.
08:04Tony definitely had a motive to get rid of Charles because everything was in Charles' name.
08:10I think if Charles was still alive, Tony could have ended up with nothing.
08:15Tony is unassuming and you wouldn't think he's dangerous.
08:19But as far as Charles and Anthony's relationship, Anthony was the muscle.
08:24If there was somebody who was going to get their hands dirty or bloody, it was going to be Anthony.
08:31Anthony had a lot to gain from Charles dying.
08:35Now Anthony could point the fingers at Charles for Byron's death.
08:40I knew that because Charles was gone, Tony was now the prime suspect in the murder of Byron Griffey.
08:47It was hard to kind of look at Tony and not sit there and question, like, what's going on? Like, are you a murderer?
08:55After Charles died, there were a lot of rumors.
09:10One of the rumors around town was that he'd offed himself because he killed Byron Griffey.
09:16Or maybe he offed himself because Tony broke up with him.
09:20You know, small-town stories.
09:23There was a lot of rumors about my brother Tommy with Anthony and his half-brother.
09:28Everybody in town calls it the love triangle.
09:31Supposedly he had...
09:33It was a love triangle between Anthony and Charles Byron and my brother Tommy.
09:38There would actually be a love square.
09:40Yeah, it's square, but they called it the love triangle.
09:43Because there's four, yes.
09:44You know, every rumor ever just starts coming out.
09:47Like, Charles and Anthony teaming up with Lynette and Gina to kill Byron.
09:53As a gay person myself, it's just borderline offensive that that's what people thought.
09:59You couldn't really talk to anyone that didn't think that something was up with Charles' death,
10:05and the only person you could really look at was Anthony.
10:09It was really easy to think that if anyone had the access, opportunity, and motive to tamper with his medicine,
10:17it would be Anthony, and it would look like what happened.
10:21After Charles' death, the autopsy report came back.
10:31There was no poison in his system, and that he had died of natural causes.
10:35It was a massive heart attack that killed Charles.
10:38Under all that stress, your lover left you for another person.
10:43You're probably gonna go to prison for murder.
10:46That's a lot of stress on a guy who already had a bad heart.
10:49The official story is that his heart gave out.
10:56If you want to romanticize it, he died of a broken heart.
11:02The CBI used Charles' death to be able to get warrants and to go search my old house.
11:12In the basement, they had what they called the gun room.
11:19They had guns in boxes, they had them on the rack, they had them all over the place.
11:24During that search warrant in Charles' bedroom, in the back of the closet, they found a hidden compartment.
11:32And in that hidden compartment were several boxes of coins, one of which had Byron Griffey's name on it.
11:42They were hidden.
11:44Why weren't they turned back over to his daughter?
11:49My dad trusted them, they were his friends, and they were helping him by making sure that his money was safe.
11:59But they already had stolen from him.
12:02There's no explanation as to where my dad's money went.
12:06I believe that Byron probably had close to a million dollars in collectible stamps and coins and currency.
12:15And he had a lot of gold.
12:17Lynette and Gina never saw any gold returned to them.
12:21What happened to all the gold?
12:23I suspect Charles and Tony had a lot to do with Byron's gold disappearing.
12:28Neither of us took anything from Byron's.
12:32When the investigator came in and took a bunch of coins, there was one that did have Byron's name on it, but the other coins were actually my collection.
12:40They had Lynette Griffey identify them as Byron's coins.
12:46But they weren't, they were mine.
12:49The coins that Byron had a store for him, Byron ended up selling most of it to some guy out of the springs.
12:59But I wasn't even there when he came to pick it up.
13:02I was working on the crematory that day.
13:06Anthony's default position on anything potentially criminal in this case was he knows nothing and saw nothing, including the death of Byron Griffey.
13:16Charles' memorial was held at Florence High School in the auditorium.
13:35And, you know, it had a really huge turnout.
13:38He was the mayor at the time.
13:39They owned multiple businesses along Main Street.
13:42They had the church, and so most of the town was there.
13:50I stayed away from Charles' funeral just because I didn't want to turn it into a circus.
13:56I knew there was going to be police there.
13:58One of the church members was speaking to everyone, and he said, Charles' brother must just be so upset that he couldn't make it.
14:07And we, you know, our hearts are with him.
14:09And me just shaking my head in disbelief that the entire town is in this room and they all believe something that's not true.
14:17Some of the members of the community wanted to put a statue up of him out by City Hall.
14:24And it's like, oh, wait a few weeks.
14:26You might see his face on the front page for something else.
14:29Charles was very good at telling stories, and no one really thought to question him.
14:38Charles once told me about his ex-wife and the two kids that he had.
14:42And it was just like these grand stories.
14:45So you would get sucked into them, but they were always a little unbelievable.
14:50The son, he said, was in the Air Force, a pilot or something.
14:56And then the daughter was a scientist.
14:59Charles would pretend that he was talking to one of them or that he just got off the phone with one of them.
15:06We always believed the story about Charles having two children and one in the Air Force.
15:20But it was a lie. Huge lie.
15:27Our view was that Charles had been the mastermind of all of it.
15:31And that when his death occurred, my entire focus became how to prosecute this crime.
15:37We had to reevaluate if we had enough evidence to charge just Anthony in the death of Byron Griffey.
15:44He was trying to get me to admit to something that didn't happen.
15:47I want to know what happened.
15:50There's no one else to protect now.
15:52You're on your own.
16:02After Charles died, I was just trying to survive, pretty much.
16:07Still trying to run the businesses.
16:10But the last two payrolls, I had to cover myself out of my own pocket.
16:16And that's when I decided to close the funeral home.
16:19I don't know.
16:20It just didn't seem like a place I wanted to be anymore.
16:23I found the person that I believe I was meant to be with for the rest of my life.
16:29Charles and Anthony kept that relationship a secret for over 20 years.
16:35I'm not going to lie, I was pretty devastated.
16:39And I wasn't devastated about the type of relationship.
16:42It was the fact that it was a lie.
16:44Then I thought, would my life be better with him or without it?
16:50And there was no.
16:52There was no delay.
16:54Anthony and my mom rushed to get married.
16:58My mom had me be her wedding photographer.
17:01From their point of view, a murder investigation was a side thing that was like,
17:05don't worry about this murder.
17:08They didn't have squat for evidence.
17:11I kept thinking, did the cops come up with something else?
17:14Is there something else?
17:15And there never was anything else that I heard.
17:18Charles' death made us reanalyze everything.
17:26So there was a significant delay before we ultimately filed the charges.
17:31I got a call from chief of police from Florence.
17:40And he told me, we've got your coins here.
17:43You can come down and pick them up.
17:46So I get in the car, I go down, and that's when I was arrested.
17:51You got your hands on your head.
17:54You got a warrant for your arrest, but push through your murder.
17:57Okay, come with a wife.
17:59We will make a phone call for you.
18:01It was all set up just to get me to come in.
18:04With Charles, unfortunately, deceased.
18:10You're the only other person that knows anything.
18:13I want to know what really happened that day.
18:15I told you everything I knew.
18:17I've got nothing more to have.
18:19We're here.
18:21Charles is dead?
18:23Yeah, thanks for that.
18:26What do you mean by that?
18:28Well, you passed her in the cons, dude.
18:30Well, I'm sorry you feel that way.
18:32I don't think that's what the coroner felt.
18:34Our investigation determined that you and Charles conspired and caused the death of Byron Griffey last October.
18:42It's our belief that when this goes to a jury, they're going to say the same thing that we're saying in the end.
18:48Your story is just not matching with what the evidence is showing.
18:56I've got a direct line to the district attorney.
18:59This would be the time for me to call them and tell them that you want to tell us something.
19:05There's nothing else to do.
19:06Once we knew Anthony was going on trial, he very quickly started liquidating anything that he could and with the help of my mom, trying to get enough money to pay for his defense.
19:26The first attorney I had said, people always ask, how much does it cost to defend against a charge of first-degree murder?
19:35And he said everything.
19:36And he wasn't kidding.
19:38Everything started getting sold to try and pay attorney's fees.
19:43All of the vehicles.
19:44It was everything.
19:46I have been a criminal defense investigator for about 45 years.
20:00Lawyers representing people charged hire me to investigate the case for the defense.
20:09I've met with thousands of clients.
20:12And some of them would just flat say, you know, I did it and it's your job to help me get off.
20:21But that wasn't Anthony.
20:23Anthony was there wrong.
20:25We didn't do it.
20:27And he was determined to be found innocent of something he kept maintaining that he didn't do.
20:36The case against Anthony was circumstantial.
20:40Juries like meat.
20:43They want to be able to find DNA at the scene, fingerprints, hair fibers, something to put the suspect there.
20:51And in this case, there was no such evidence.
20:55Everything in my mind pointed to Charles and Anthony as committing the crime.
20:59The fact that they're there at the farm.
21:01Easy access to a weapon.
21:03He had motive.
21:04I believed I was going to be able to meet that obligation of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
21:12Any time somebody's charged with a crime, the defense attorneys have an obligation to investigate.
21:20So I spent a good five months trying to contact witnesses, going through police reports, documents, photographs, videos.
21:31And finally, I stumbled into a 911 call made by a fella named Rob a few months after the murder.
21:43He basically said, I have information that Tommy Tomlin is involved in Byron's murder.
21:58The thing I'm worried about is him finding out he even made this call.
22:15This dude's a psycho man.
22:17I'm telling you.
22:18I'm scared to death, dude.
22:19I don't know who to trust.
22:20I'm scared.
22:21You can trust us.
22:22I mean, you know, head forward, head forward.
22:24He kept struggling to meet you anywhere I may be.
22:26If you choose a place, he'll be willing to help you wherever.
22:30Okay.
22:31We knew Rob could change everything.
22:35So, of course, I want to find Rob.
22:44911 information.
22:46Just wanted to give you some information.
22:48May it be worth something to you.
22:50It may not.
22:51But a few months after Byron's death, a fella named Rob called the 911 operator and said,
22:58I have information that Tommy Tomlin is involved in Byron's murder.
23:04And that he told me he was.
23:08So, I, of course, had been looking for Rob.
23:13And as it turned out, Rob died about a year before I was able to try to interview him.
23:20And I couldn't go into any more detail than what appeared in the police reports.
23:25Those reports were just handwritten notes.
23:29The deputy that took the statement from him, he said he didn't pay attention to it
23:34and didn't take it serious because he was just a drunk.
23:37I needed to do everything I possibly could do to prove Anthony's innocence.
23:44And that was hard to do.
23:47There was also a confidential informant who said that Byron wanted him to kill Cory.
23:59Cory was Byron's grandson.
24:02So, there's some evidence that Byron was talking to a hit man.
24:07Byron was extremely depressed.
24:12Did Byron talk that fella into helping him commit suicide, knowing that he was willing to kill?
24:21But that confidential informant also died before I was able to contact him.
24:29Early on, the investigators were trying to determine if this was an assisted suicide.
24:36Because there was no evidence of Byron Griffey fighting.
24:40And no evidence of him attempting to get away.
24:44I don't think there's any way at all my dad would have ever been suicidal.
24:50He was a mortician long enough to know what that did to families.
24:56He'd have never done that.
24:58As a prosecutor, our obligation is that we do not bring a case to trial that we don't have a belief that we're going to be able to prove beyond reasonable doubt.
25:16And I believed I had the evidence.
25:18The stakes were pretty high.
25:20I don't like to use the term fighting for your life, but that's what it felt like.
25:27The defense team had two alternate suspects.
25:31Tommy Tomlin and Cory, Gina's son.
25:35There were other suspects, but none of them ever rose to the level that would show us that they were a valid alternate suspect.
25:44Throughout the course of the day that the homicide took place, Tommy was always with someone from the start to finish.
25:50That removed him as a suspect in our eyes.
25:53We didn't think Cory had the ability to do it.
25:57And there was no evidence whatsoever that indicated that he was there.
26:01The judge allowed us to kind of talk about them being closed chambers without the jury present.
26:09But then wouldn't allow us to use it in court.
26:17There was a significant amount of circumstantial evidence that pointed toward Charles Gubler and Anthony Wright.
26:24They were at the scene of the crime during the time that the crime occurred.
26:29There's about an hour of time that I need you to account for.
26:33I hardly remember that date.
26:35We have inconsistencies in the car that they drove.
26:38Do you remember telling me what vehicle you drove out there?
26:41It was the black Mercedes.
26:43It was the black before Mercedes.
26:45Okay.
26:46So I pulled the Savannah's video.
26:48I know you're not in the black Mercedes.
26:50You're driving the white astro man.
26:52It must have been mistaken.
26:54I could have sworn I was in that car.
26:56When they're both confronted with it, the response is exactly the same.
26:59You did not drive the Mercedes.
27:01We were always in the Mercedes usually, but we may have taken a gun.
27:04You know, after the fact, they realized we made a mistake in our statements.
27:08So let's both get back on the same page and have the same response.
27:13And a lot of the details just don't make sense.
27:16As far as you say, it was the gate?
27:18Yes.
27:19You know there was another way to get on his property that didn't involve you seeing the
27:23gate?
27:24No, I didn't know that.
27:25Charles and Anthony had been to the farm plenty of times.
27:31And for them to say, oh, the gate was locked, whatever, I don't buy it.
27:36Charles and Anthony drove an hour to get their good friend to take him for a birthday lunch.
27:44They didn't drive around to the other gate or even walk up to the house.
27:51There was almost an entire hour that was unaccounted for.
27:55You had to have gone somewhere else between Fowler and the buffet.
28:00Drove around a little bit of sight with the team.
28:02We just kind of head home because we had a few more work to do.
28:05Turned around in Pueblo West and went back.
28:08Either one could say where they were for that hour that was lost.
28:13So it gave us more indication that they were hiding something from us.
28:18Had you ever been on the farm before?
28:20Yeah.
28:21Had you been in the house?
28:23Yes.
28:26Before you went to Byron's farm this day,
28:29how many times do you think roughly you and Charles went out to the farm?
28:33I know that I was at the farm twice before.
28:38Maybe three times.
28:40But I'd only been there a couple of times.
28:42I'd never actually been in the house before.
28:45There's layer after layer after layer of lie and deceit.
28:53You start with the brothers and then you go all the way down to the death of Charles.
29:00And everything in between.
29:01As we dug into Charles and Anthony's past, we found that they had been crime scene cleaners for the Utah coroner's office.
29:17They had the knowledge and the know how to clean a crime scene so that there wouldn't be any evidence left behind.
29:26These were individuals who were comfortable around death.
29:32I suspect that they were gloved up with latex gloves and there was a real attempt to avoid fingerprints and DNA.
29:41My gut feeling was there had to be more than one person involved.
29:45When somebody dies, that is dead weight.
29:50So that dead weight becomes a very difficult thing to move.
29:54But if somebody moved him, you could find some drag marks.
29:57There was none of those.
29:59So it looked like several people moved him to that final resting position.
30:05Those all made us to the conclusion that it was Charles Giebler and Anthony Wright.
30:11But did Tony kill Byron?
30:13I always thought he did.
30:15Charles had it in to order Tony to do it.
30:18But I'm not sure if Charles would have pulled the trigger.
30:23Tony was more cold than calculated.
30:30Not once during the trials or anything did Anthony ever say, I didn't do it.
30:36Like, if you were innocent, you would plead at some point and say, I did not do this.
30:43The trial, I mean, it was an agonizing couple of weeks.
30:48The jury goes in to deliberate.
30:50And that was the 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.
31:06Very, very stressful.
31:08I'm looking at real punishment if I'm found guilty.
31:15They're going to send me to prison for life.
31:20We were all there, the whole family.
31:24I was confident that Anthony was going to be convicted.
31:28Anthony's just sweating it.
31:32Nervous, of course.
31:34So the jury comes back.
31:42It was a hung jury, and I was extremely upset.
31:48They hung, meaning the jury couldn't make an unanimous decision.
31:53Everybody sat there completely dumbfounded.
31:59When they came back as a hung jury, I didn't know how the system worked.
32:03I'm thinking, sweet, it's over, I'm going home.
32:06Nope.
32:08The district attorney right away stated that he was going to try it again.
32:13You just don't know what to even think at that point.
32:16It was very traumatizing.
32:18Bottom line, man, you're going to have to get another couple hundred thousand dollars together to defend yourself the next time.
32:27I was ready for another trial, but the attorney kept telling me, if you have to go back after a mistrial, it very rarely goes in the defendant's favor.
32:41Tony was just burned out.
32:43He was tired.
32:44He was exhausted.
32:45He was just like, I can't keep doing this.
32:48And then the head D.A. there, for whatever reason, offers Anthony a plea bargain.
33:00We made the decision that we had to get any conviction we can.
33:05And my primary goal in doing that was to have Anthony Wright make a statement that says, yes, I'm responsible.
33:14Conspiracy to commit murder.
33:17It didn't require jail time, but it would be a few years of probation.
33:24Anthony didn't want to do it.
33:26The attorneys and myself basically started begging him to take the plea offer.
33:33I mean, I used to say, no way I plead guilty to something I didn't do.
33:38Well, you're not looking down the barrel of 25 to life.
33:41It's real.
33:42I wasn't given up by any means, but I didn't see a way out.
33:48I just had to take the plea.
33:51My thoughts of Anthony taking a plea deal was, what did he pay the D.A.?
34:04That's truly what I think.
34:06You take somebody's life and you get, what, 10 years of probation?
34:12I was sick to my stomach.
34:15How could something like that happen?
34:18Take a person's life and it really has no value.
34:21All of justice costs money.
34:29You want to prove yourself innocent over something?
34:32You could lose everything.
34:33And where would it get you?
34:35Sometimes you take the easy way.
34:39Commit to something, get it over with and put it behind you.
34:42Only God knows.
34:48We all wrote letters to the judge and he said,
34:51you've agreed to the plea bargain.
34:53And I said, we didn't agree to the plea bargain.
34:55Bullock agreed to that plea bargain.
34:59The district attorney, James Bullock, screwed us over.
35:05I don't think that Anthony is innocent.
35:09I don't think Charles was innocent.
35:12Do I want to really ask Anthony anything?
35:15I would like an answer.
35:18I would like him to just fess up, be a man,
35:22tell me he did it and why.
35:25He's too much of a coward though.
35:29I guess that's why they shot him in the back of the head
35:31and that's why he won't tell me.
35:33Did you kill Byron Griffey?
35:34Uh, absolutely 100%, without question, did not kill Byron Griffey.
35:53And Charles did not either.
35:55I didn't do it. I don't know who did it.
35:59I have an idea who I think might have.
36:03The suspects that I believe possibly had a part in Byron's murder were Tommy Tomlin, Corey Higgs, and Byron's daughter Lynette.
36:15The biggest motive Lynette had was financial reasons.
36:22And Byron told me I was tired of just having to continually support her and put money out for every little whim.
36:29And he was talking about just not doing that anymore.
36:32We did not hear any stories at all of Byron Griffey cutting her off in any way.
36:39She was at work all day the day that Byron was murdered.
36:43Lynette had an airtight alibi, unlike Charles Giebler and Anthony Wright.
36:48Here are the facts. Charles and Anthony had hundreds of thousands, close to a million dollars worth of this guy's money.
37:06Yes, other people had reason to do something terrible to Byron.
37:10Can't argue that.
37:12But the people who gained the most financially, it was them.
37:20It was all about lies and greed and deceit.
37:27And I'm not sure if we'll ever know really the full truth, the full extent of it.
37:32There's one person that knows the truth 100%.
37:40That's Anthony Wright.
37:45I don't suppose that we can ever trust a damn thing that he says.
37:50How could you really trust anything that he says at this point?
37:54Having Laura there gave me something to focus on, trying to start our life together.
38:14You know, it's a good distraction. Still is.
38:28That's sage from the Lake Pueblo. That doesn't even smell like sage anymore.
38:35Oh, there it is.
38:36So this summer, it'll be 12 years that Tony and I have been married.
38:44So, I mean, Anthony and I, all we ever, ever wanted was to be together.
38:50That was it. We just wanted to be together.
38:53And we are. And we always will be.
38:55I said this at the very beginning, because, you know, right away the attorneys are like,
39:01well, we got paid and you didn't go to prison, so all's good.
39:04Yes, he gets to walk around and have a job and, you know, kiss me goodnight every night or whatever.
39:12I said, but do not think for a minute that this was some kind of damn gift.
39:17This is not a best case scenario. Give me a break.
39:25I don't know that there'll ever be closure, because we didn't get justice.
39:29Anthony gets to walk around and do whatever he wants to do.
39:35I would have really liked for my dad to get justice.
39:40There was no justice.
39:44It doesn't matter that it's 12 years later. It hurts just as bad today.
39:47I would do anything I could to prove my innocence.
39:54But, you know, everybody's gonna think something different.
39:57I struggle a lot still with, is Anthony innocent or is he guilty?
40:02We're a decade later and we just have questions.
40:06And some things that probably will never be able to be answered because it's too late.
40:11Who killed Byron? I'm convinced Anthony didn't, but there's no evidence and probably never will be unless somebody makes a deathbed statement declaring that they did it.
40:27There's so many rabbit holes in this case to chase down that I suspect if we were to reopen the case, there's additional evidence that we would find that would just be more than we could deal with.
40:37I'd like to say that the moral of the story is don't trust somebody who says that they're your friend, but then what kind of life do you have?
40:44Like I'm still gonna trust and I'm still gonna be giving and loving and caring because that's what my dad would have wanted.
40:51A lot of this could have been avoided if people could just be themselves and tell the truth.
41:00Truth is the thing that everyone seeks. It's hard to come by. Just be honest. Say what happened or what didn't happen.
41:11Because someday they're gonna have to answer to their maker for whatever they did.
41:16Both you and I were gonna have to answer for our misdeeds and our mistakes.
41:21Monday they will too.
41:22Monday they will too.
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