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00:00Took care of a lot of funerals for my family.
00:02He was a good man.
00:05There's a darker side to Byron that people didn't know.
00:08The relationship between Tommy and Byron
00:11turned into eating turkey pot pies and watching porn.
00:15I didn't see that Tommy had any motive to do it.
00:19When we found out my dad was shot,
00:21the first person I thought of was Corey Higgs.
00:23Did you ever think of getting even with someone?
00:27Yes.
00:28Corey is my son.
00:30Charles and Anthony's stories were falling apart.
00:34Why would you lie about something as stupid as what vehicle you drove?
00:37I don't believe I was lying.
00:40It must have been mistaken.
00:42They were the last ones to see Byron,
00:44so that made it a possibility.
00:46After Byron died, they start buying boats
00:48and they start spending money like crazy.
00:50He had a motive to kill my dad.
00:52It's all about money.
00:55I don't like to use the term fighting for your life,
00:57but that's what it felt like.
00:59We were ready to make arrests,
01:01but now we had another dead body on our hands.
01:04There was a police officer in Florence in the city manager's office.
01:08He gets a phone call that they're calling medical to Charles and Anthony's house.
01:14So I go race into the scene, and I find Charles on the floor of the bathroom.
01:19It was obvious that he was deceased.
01:21The ambulance came, and the police covered the whole room.
01:26The ambulance came, and the police covered the whole property with costume tape.
01:30I remember being out on the yard, you know, and everybody hoping, hoping, hoping.
02:05And, like, there's no good news.
02:09It was terribly sad.
02:12It was terribly sad.
02:13At that time, Charles was mayor, and that afternoon, I went to the city council meeting,
02:22and about halfway through the meeting, the chief of police comes in.
02:27He said, look, we've found Charles dead.
02:30I couldn't believe it.
02:33After I got that phone call, I drove to Charles and Anthony's house.
02:38I don't have any idea why.
02:41And I sat across the street from their house.
02:44I just cried and cried the anger.
02:48Like, how could you do this so that you didn't have to answer?
02:51For my dad, if you were going to kill yourself today, you could have told me last night.
02:55I never in a million years saw this coming.
02:59The fact that Charles died was just a punch in the stomach.
03:07We're drafting the arrest warrant for both of them to be charged with murder at that time.
03:12When Charles' death occurred, we kind of took a step back.
03:16It was like, what else, you know, are we going to see in this case?
03:20Well, I was at work.
03:21Somebody called me and said Charles died.
03:23I mean, I was just shocked, just stunned.
03:28My first thought was suicide.
03:32Some of us knew that he was being investigated for murder of Byron Griffey.
03:36And I felt like he took the easy way out.
03:40Charles may not have ever seen a way out.
03:43I mean, how could you ever recover from the mountain of lies?
03:48You start with the brothers and you think about it.
03:53Keeping up appearances, that's all they had done since they had got to Florence.
03:57The whole church thing, was it all just fake?
04:01Will we ever know the truth of what happened to Irene Witte?
04:04What happened to all of Byron's gold?
04:06These were life-changing lies.
04:09Well, where's the end?
04:11The end for Charles was his death.
04:12The last time I talked to Charles was the day before he died.
04:20And he told me, I'm not going to cause you any more trouble.
04:24We can work through this.
04:25We can take care of the business dealings and do what needs to be done.
04:30And that was pretty much it.
04:32I really wasn't sad about Charles passing away because that was a part of my life that I had already chosen to leave.
04:43I know that sounds heartless, but after what I had been through, that was just a small hiccup in the general scheme.
04:52Laura and I were trying to get things worked out and figured out where we were going to go from there.
05:02At this point in the investigation, we brought the last person that saw Charles alive in to interview him.
05:11A guy named C.J. Young.
05:15Charles and I, we've been friends forever.
05:17I've known him since I was 12.
05:19They were my scoutmasters, boy scouts.
05:22Okay.
05:22So, I've been staying with Charles since him and Tony broke up.
05:29So, you were there last night?
05:31Yeah.
05:32Anything to think of that's helpful?
05:34Sometime after 10.30.
05:36Charles hollered at me and said, C.J., help.
05:40I can't move.
05:40I can't breathe.
05:41I can't move.
05:41I thought he was having a panic attack.
05:44And I got him sat down and he said he started to feel better.
05:48So, he got up and he was walking around.
05:50He did tell me, man, I'm not taking this well.
05:54Did you consider him to be depressed this week?
05:56He may have been depressed, but I don't know.
05:58As far as Charles' death, your cop brain is thinking he's guilty, so he killed himself.
06:06Part of it he thinks he had medications.
06:08Did he overdose?
06:09Who knows?
06:10I mean, it's all suspicious, any way you look at it.
06:12I didn't think that Charles was suicidal.
06:16The police were trying to push him to crack, basically, for no reason.
06:21He didn't do the crime.
06:23The next week after Tony left, Charles was getting everything set up to go forward without Tony.
06:30He didn't plan to die.
06:32I had heard from my son, Eric, that Charles got his hair frosted, Charles got his ears pierced.
06:38Charles ordered a teeth whitening kit.
06:41Charles called this guy and asked him, you know, where does an old queen like me go to hook up these days?
06:50No, I wouldn't say he committed suicide.
06:54I got the impression he had plans.
06:58We all got to have to answer for whatever happens.
07:02But if you have a good life and all of a sudden it's brought to an end, it's sad.
07:07It's very sad.
07:09Look it, he was only 52.
07:11He had wonderful cars, beautiful church and a mansion, lovely mortuary, having stuff.
07:19And more stuff isn't the answer.
07:22Guess we found that out.
07:25Charles' death made me stop and think, did Anthony have something to do with this?
07:31I heard people talking about how, that must be nice, now you don't have to deal with any of that.
07:38Well, it wasn't nice.
07:39I was considered a suspect.
07:42It very clearly looks like Anthony would be the one that gains the most.
07:46Because I know that with Charles alive, that was going to be a huge battle.
07:53Tony definitely had a motive to get rid of Charles because everything was in Charles' name.
08:00I think if Charles was still alive, Tony could have ended up with nothing.
08:05Tony is unassuming and you wouldn't think he's dangerous.
08:09But as far as Charles and Anthony's relationship, Anthony was the muscle.
08:14If there was somebody who was going to get their hands dirty or bloody, it was going to be Anthony.
08:22Anthony had a lot to gain from Charles dying.
08:25Now, Anthony could point the fingers at Charles for Byron's death.
08:31I knew that because Charles was gone, Tony was now the prime suspect in the murder of Byron Griffey.
08:37It was hard to kind of look at Tony and not sit there and question, like, what's going on?
08:44Like, are you a murderer?
08:45After Charles died, there were a lot of rumors.
09:01One of the rumors around town was that he'd offed his self because he killed Byron Griffey.
09:07Or maybe he offed his self because Tony broke up with him.
09:10You know, small town stories.
09:12There was a lot of rumors about my brother Tommy with Anthony and his half-brother.
09:18Everybody in town calls it the love triangle.
09:21Supposedly he had, it was a love triangle between Anthony and Charles Byron and my brother Tommy.
09:28That would actually be a love square.
09:30Yeah, it's square, but they called it the love triangle.
09:32Because there's four, yes.
09:34You know, every rumor ever just starts coming out.
09:37Like, Charles and Anthony teaming up with Lynette and Gina to kill Byron.
09:42And as a gay person myself, it's just borderline offensive that that's what people thought.
09:50You couldn't really talk to anyone that didn't think that something was up with Charles' death.
09:55And the only person you could really look at was Anthony.
09:59It was really easy to think that if anyone had the access, opportunity, and motive to tamper with his medicine,
10:06it would be Anthony, and it would look like what happened.
10:16After Charles' death, the autopsy report came back.
10:21There was no poison in his system, and that he had died of natural causes.
10:25It was a massive heart attack that killed Charles.
10:27Under all that stress, your lover left you for another person.
10:33You're probably going to go to prison for murder.
10:36That's a lot of stress on a guy who already had a bad heart.
10:42The official story is that his heart gave out.
10:46If you want to romanticize it, died of a broken heart.
10:49The CBI used Charles' death to be able to get warrants and to go search my old house.
11:02In the basement, they had what they called the gun room.
11:09They had guns in boxes.
11:11They had them on the rack.
11:12They had them all over the place.
11:13During that search warrant, in Charles' bedroom, in the back of the closet, they found a hidden compartment.
11:22And in that hidden compartment were several boxes of coins, one of which had Byron Griffey's name on it.
11:35They were hidden.
11:37Why weren't they turned back over to his daughter?
11:40My dad trusted them.
11:44They were his friends, and they were helping him by making sure that his money was safe.
11:50But they already had stolen from him.
11:53There's no explanation as to where my dad's money went.
11:58I believe that Byron probably had close to a million dollars in collectible stamps and coins and currency.
12:05And he had a lot of gold.
12:07Lynette and Gina never saw any gold returned to them.
12:12What happened to all the gold?
12:14I suspect Charles and Tony had a lot to do with Byron's gold disappearing.
12:18Neither of us took anything in Byron's.
12:22When 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.
12:30They had Lynette Griffey identify them as Byron's coins, but they weren't.
12:37They were mine.
12:39The coins that Byron had a store for him, Byron ended up selling most of it to some guy out of the springs.
12:49But I wasn't even there when he came to pick it up.
12:52I was working on the crematory that day.
12:57Anthony's default position on anything potentially criminal in this case was he knows nothing and saw nothing, including the death of Byron Griffey.
13:05Charles' memorial was held at Florence High School in the auditorium, and, you know, it had a really huge turnout.
13:28He was the mayor at the time.
13:29They owned multiple businesses along Main Street.
13:32They had the church, and so most of the town was there.
13:40I stayed away from Charles' funeral just because I didn't want to turn it into a circus.
13:46I knew there was going to be police there.
13:50One of the church members would speak into everyone, and he said,
13:53Charles' brother must just be so upset that he couldn't make it, and, you know, our hearts are with him.
13:59And me just shaking my head in disbelief that the entire town is in this room, and they all believe something that's not true.
14:09Some of the members of the community wanted to put a statue up of him out by City Hall.
14:15And it's like, well, wait a few weeks.
14:16You might see his face on the front page for something else.
14:19Charles was very good at telling stories, and no one really thought to question him.
14:28Charles once told me about his ex-wife and the two kids that he had.
14:33And it was just like these grand stories, so you would get sucked into them.
14:37But they were always a little unbelievable.
14:40The son, he said, was in the Air Force, a pilot or something, and then the daughter was a scientist.
14:50Charles would pretend that he was talking to one of them or that he just got off the phone with one of them.
14:56We always believed the story about Charles having two children and one in the Air Force.
15:01Charles had been the mastermind of all of it, and that when his death occurred, my entire focus became how to prosecute this crime.
15:26We had to reevaluate if we had enough evidence to charge just Anthony in the death of Byron Griffey.
15:33He was trying to get me to admit to something that didn't f***ing happen.
15:37I want to know what happened.
15:40There's no one else to protect now.
15:42You're on your own.
15:43After Charles died, I was just trying to survive, pretty much.
15:57Still trying to run the businesses.
16:00But the last two payrolls, I had to cover myself out of my own pocket.
16:06And that's when I decided to close the funeral home.
16:09I don't know.
16:10It just didn't seem like a place I wanted to be anymore.
16:13I found the person that I believe I was meant to be with for the rest of my life.
16:20Charles and Anthony kept that relationship a secret for over 20 years.
16:26I'm not going to lie.
16:27I was pretty devastated.
16:29And I wasn't devastated about the type of relationship.
16:32It was the fact that it was a lie.
16:35Then I thought, would my life be better with him or without it?
16:39And there was no, there was no delay.
16:45Anthony and my mom rushed to get married.
16:48My mom had me be her wedding photographer.
16:51From their point of view, a murder investigation was a side thing that was like, don't worry about this murder.
16:57They didn't have squat for evidence.
17:01I kept thinking, did the cops come up with something else?
17:04Is there something else?
17:05And there never was anything else that I heard.
17:12Charles' death made us reanalyze everything.
17:15So there was a significant delay before we ultimately filed the charges.
17:26I got a call from chief of police from Florence.
17:30And he told me, we've got your coins here.
17:34You can come down and pick them up.
17:36So I get in the car, I go down, and that's when I was arrested.
17:43Hands on your head.
17:44You've got a warrant for your arrest for a first year of your murder.
17:47Can I help my wife?
17:49We will make a phone call for you.
17:51It was all set up just to get me to come in.
17:54With Charles, unfortunately, deceased.
18:00You're the only other person that knows anything.
18:03I want to know what really happened that day.
18:04I told you everything I know.
18:07I've got nothing more to add.
18:09We're here?
18:12Charles is dead?
18:13Yeah, thanks for that.
18:16What do you mean by that?
18:18What you best turned into the cause, dude.
18:21Well, I'm sorry you feel that way.
18:22I don't think that's what the coroner felt.
18:25Our investigation determined that you and Charles
18:27conspired and caused the death of Byron Griffity last October.
18:31It's our belief that when this goes to a jury,
18:36they're going to say the same thing that we're saying.
18:38And your story is just not matching with what the evidence is showing.
18:42I've got a direct line to the duty district attorney.
18:49This would be the time for me to call them and tell them that you want to tell us something.
18:56There's nothing else to do.
18:58Once we knew Anthony was going on trial,
19:08he very quickly started liquidating anything that he could.
19:12And with the help of my mom,
19:13trying to get enough money to pay for his defense.
19:16The first attorney I had said,
19:19people always ask,
19:20how much does it cost to defend against a charge of first-degree murder?
19:25And he said everything.
19:26And he wasn't kidding.
19:29Everything started getting sold to try and pay attorney's fees.
19:33All of the vehicles.
19:36It was everything.
19:37I have been a criminal defense investigator for about 45 years.
19:51Lawyers representing people charged hire me to investigate the case for the defense.
19:58I've met with thousands of clients.
20:02And some of them would just flat say,
20:05you know, I did it and it's your job to help me get off.
20:11But that wasn't Anthony.
20:13Anthony was wrong.
20:16We didn't do it.
20:18And he was determined to be found innocent of something he kept maintaining that he didn't do.
20:25The case against Anthony was circumstantial.
20:30Juries like meat.
20:33They want to be able to find DNA at the scene.
20:36Fingerprints, hair fibers, something to put the suspect there.
20:41And in this case, there was no such evidence.
20:45Everything in my mind pointed to Charles and Anthony as committing the crime.
20:48The fact that they're there at the farm.
20:51Easy access to a weapon.
20:53He had motive.
20:53I believed I was going to be able to meet that obligation of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
21:02Anytime somebody's charged with a crime,
21:05the defense attorneys have an obligation to investigate.
21:09So I spent a good five months trying to contact witnesses,
21:15going through police reports, documents, photographs, videos.
21:20And finally, I stumble into a 911 call made by a fellow named Rob a few months after the murder.
21:31Okay, and you don't want to give it off to him?
21:38No.
21:39You're at the corner in Howard.
21:42They got murdered.
21:43I know for a fact that y'all have, uh, I don't know his last name.
21:48His name's Tom.
21:48He's from Howard also.
21:51Y'all have interviewed him.
21:52He basically said, I have information that Tommy Tomlin is involved in Byron's murder.
22:00The thing I'm worried about is him finding out he even made his call, dude,
22:05because this dude's psycho, man, I'm telling you.
22:08He's scared to death, dude.
22:09I don't know who to try if I'm scared.
22:11If you can trust us, I mean, you know, head forward, head forward.
22:14He kept swimming to me anywhere I may be.
22:16If you choose a place, he'll be worried about you wherever.
22:20Okay.
22:20We knew Rob could change everything.
22:25So, of course, I want to find Rob.
22:35911, what's much?
22:36Just wanted to give you some information.
22:38May it be worth something to you.
22:40It may not.
22:41A few months after Byron's death, a fellow named Rob called the 911 operator and said,
22:48I have information that Tommy Tomlin is involved in Byron's murder and that he told me he was.
22:58So, I, of course, had been looking for Rob.
23:02And as it turned out, Rob died about a year before I was able to try to interview him.
23:09And I couldn't go into any more detail than what appeared in the police reports.
23:15Those reports were just handwritten notes.
23:19The deputy that took the statement from him, he said he didn't pay attention to it and didn't take it serious because he was just a drunk.
23:27I needed to do everything I possibly could do to prove Anthony's innocence.
23:34And that was hard to do.
23:37There was also a confidential informant who said that Byron wanted him to kill Corey.
23:49Corey was Byron's grandson.
23:53So, there's some evidence that Byron was talking to a hitman.
23:58Byron was extremely depressed.
24:01Did Byron talk that fella into helping him commit suicide, knowing that he was willing to kill?
24:12But that confidential informant also died before I was able to contact him.
24:19Early on, the investigators were trying to determine if this was an assisted suicide, because there was no evidence of Byron Griffey fighting and no evidence of him attempting to get away.
24:33I don't think there's any way at all my dad would have ever been suicidal.
24:40He was a mortician long enough to know what that did to families.
24:46He'd have never done that.
24:48As 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 a reasonable doubt.
25:06And I believed I had the evidence.
25:08The stakes were pretty high.
25:11I don't like to use the term fighting for your life, but that's what it felt like.
25:15The defense team had two alternate suspects, Tommy Tomlin and Corey, Gina's son.
25:25There were other suspects, but none of them ever rose to the level that would show us that they were a valid alternate suspect.
25:35Throughout the course of the day that the homicide took place, Tommy was always with someone from the start to finish.
25:41That removed him as a suspect in our eyes.
25:43We didn't think Corey had the ability to do it, and there was no evidence whatsoever that indicated that he was there.
25:52The judge allowed us to kind of talk about them, the enclosed chambers without the jury present, but then wouldn't allow us to use it in court.
26:03There was a significant amount of circumstantial evidence that pointed toward Charles Gubler and Antony Wright.
26:14They were at the scene of the crime during the time that the crime occurred.
26:20There's about an hour of time that I need you to account for.
26:23I hardly remember that, Dave.
26:25We have inconsistencies in the car that they drove.
26:29Do you remember telling me what vehicle you drove out there?
26:31It was the black Mercedes.
26:33It was the black, the before Mercedes?
26:35Okay.
26:36So I pulled the Savannah's video.
26:38I know you're not in the black Mercedes.
26:40You're driving the white Astro man.
26:42It must have been mistaken.
26:44I could have sworn in that car.
26:46When they're both confronted with it, the response is exactly the same.
26:50You did not drive the Mercedes.
26:51Well, they're always in the Mercedes, usually, but we may have taken a gun.
26:55You know, after the fact, they realized we made a mistake in our statements, so let's both get back on the same page and have the same response.
27:03And a lot of the details just doesn't make sense.
27:07Farge, you say, it was the gate?
27:08Yes.
27:10You know there was another way to get on his property that didn't involve the gate?
27:14No, I didn't know that.
27:15Charles and Anthony had been to the farm plenty of times, and for them to say, oh, the gate was locked, whatever, I don't buy it.
27:26Charles and Anthony drove an hour to get their good friend to take him for a birthday lunch.
27:33They didn't drive around to the other gate or even walk up to the house.
27:40There was almost an entire hour that was unaccounted for.
27:44You had her going somewhere else between Fowler and the GoFund.
27:50Drove around a little to the site, but we were just going to head home because we had a few more work to do.
27:55Turned around in Pueblo West and went back.
27:58Either one could say where they were for that hour that was lost, so it gave us more indication that they were hiding something from us.
28:08Had you ever been on the farm before?
28:10Yeah, a couple of times.
28:12Had you been on the house?
28:13Yes.
28:16Before you went to Byron's farm this day, how many times do you think roughly you and Charles went out to the farm?
28:23I know that I was at the farm twice before, maybe three times, but I'd only been there a couple of times.
28:32I'd never actually been in the house before.
28:35There's layer after layer after layer of lie and deceit.
28:42You start with the brothers, and then you go all the way down to the death of Charles and everything in between.
28:51As we dug into Charles and Anthony's past, we found that they had been crime scene cleaners for the Utah coroner's office.
29:08They had the knowledge and the know-how to clean a crime scene so that there wouldn't be any evidence left behind.
29:16These were individuals who were comfortable around death.
29:23I suspect that they were gloved up with latex gloves, and there was a real attempt to avoid fingerprints and DNA.
29:32My gut feeling was there had to be more than one person involved.
29:36When somebody dies, that is dead weight.
29:41So that dead weight becomes a very difficult thing to move.
29:44But if somebody moved him, you could find some drag marks.
29:48There was none of those.
29:49So it looked like several people moved him to that final resting position.
29:55Those all made us to the conclusion that it was Charles Giebler and Anthony Wright.
30:01But did Tony kill Byron?
30:03I always thought he did.
30:05Charles had it in to order Tony to do it.
30:09But I'm not sure if Charles would have pulled the trigger.
30:11Tony was more cold and calculated.
30:20Not once during the trials or anything did Anthony ever say, I didn't do it.
30:25Like, if you were innocent, you would plead at some point and say, I did not do this.
30:34The trial, I mean, it was an agonizing couple of weeks.
30:39The jury goes in to deliberate.
30:41And that was the first time it really hit me that that's what I was facing, was life in prison.
30:46The jury in Anthony's trial, they were out two days.
30:56Very, very stressful.
30:58I'm looking at real punishment if I'm found guilty.
31:07They're going to send me to prison for life.
31:10We were all there, the whole family.
31:14I was confident that Anthony was going to be convicted.
31:17Anthony's just sweating it, nervous, of course.
31:25So the jury comes back.
31:32It was a hung jury, and I was extremely upset.
31:38They hung, meaning the jury couldn't make an unanimous decision.
31:42Everybody sat there completely dumbfounded.
31:49When they came back as a hung jury, I didn't know how the system worked.
31:53I'm thinking, sweet, it's over.
31:55I'm going home.
31:56Nope.
31:57The district attorney right away stated that he was going to try it again.
32:03You just don't know what to even think at that point.
32:06It was very traumatizing.
32:09Bottom line, man, you're going to have to get another couple hundred people.
32:12One hundred thousand dollars together to defend yourself the next time.
32:17I was ready for another trial, but the attorney kept telling me,
32:22if you have to go back after a mistrial, it very rarely goes in the defendant's favor.
32:30Tony was just burned out.
32:33He was tired.
32:33He was exhausted.
32:34He was just like, I can't keep doing this.
32:37And then the head DA there, for whatever reason, offers Anthony a plea bargain.
32:49We made the decision that we had to get any conviction we can.
32:54And my primary goal in doing that was to have Anthony Wright make a statement that says, yes, I'm responsible.
33:05Conspiracy to commit murder didn't require jail time, but it would be a few years of probation.
33:12Anthony didn't want to do it.
33:16The attorneys and myself basically started begging him to take the plea offer.
33:24I mean, I used to say, no way I'd plead guilty to something I didn't do.
33:28Well, you're not looking down the barrel of 25 to life.
33:31It's real.
33:32I wasn't given up by any means, but I didn't see a way out.
33:38I just had to take the plea.
33:49My thoughts of Anthony taking a plea deal was, what did he pay the DA?
33:55That's truly what I think.
33:58You take somebody's life and you get, what, 10 years of probation?
34:02I was sick to my stomach.
34:05How could something like that happen?
34:08Take a person's life and it really has no value.
34:17All justice costs money.
34:20You want to prove yourself innocent over something, you could lose everything.
34:24And where would it get you?
34:25So sometimes you take the easy way.
34:29Admit to something, get it over with, and put it behind you.
34:33Only God knows.
34:38We all wrote letters to the judge and he said, you've agreed to the plea bargain.
34:43And I said, we didn't agree to the plea bargain.
34:45When Bullock agreed to that plea bargain, the district attorney, James Bullock, screwed us over.
34:54I don't think that Anthony is innocent.
34:59I don't think Charles was innocent.
35:02Do I want to really ask Anthony anything?
35:05I would like an answer.
35:06I would like him to just fess up, be a man, tell me he did it and why.
35:15He's too much of a coward, though.
35:19I guess that's why they shot him in the back of the head and that's why he won't tell me.
35:22Did you kill Byron Griffey?
35:36Uh, absolutely 100%, without question, did not kill Byron Griffey.
35:43And Charles did not either.
35:46I didn't do it.
35:48I don't know who did it.
35:49I have an idea who I think might have.
35:54The suspects that I believe possibly had a part in Byron's murder were Tommy Tomlin,
36:02Corey Higgs, and Byron's daughter, Lynette.
36:07The biggest motive Lynette had was financial reasons.
36:12Byron told me I was tired of just having to continually support her and put money out for every little whim.
36:18And he was talking about just not doing that anymore.
36:23We did not hear any stories at all of Byron Griffey cutting her off in any way.
36:29She was at work all day the day that Byron was murdered.
36:33Lynette had an airtight alibi, unlike Charles Giebler and Anthony Wright.
36:38Here are the facts.
36:49Charles and Anthony had hundreds of thousands, close to a million dollars worth of this guy's money.
36:54Yes, other people had reason to do something terrible to Byron.
37:00Can't argue that.
37:03But the people who gained the most financially, it was them.
37:10It was all about lies and greed and deceit.
37:17And I'm not sure if we'll ever know really the full truth, the full extent of it.
37:23There's one person that knows the truth, 100%.
37:29That's Anthony Wright.
37:35I don't suppose that we can ever trust a damn thing that he says.
37:40How could you really trust anything that he says at this point?
37:44Having Laura there gave me something to focus on, trying to start our life together.
38:14You know, it's a good distraction.
38:16It still is.
38:19That's sage from the Lake Pueblo.
38:23That doesn't even smell like sage anymore.
38:25Oh, there it is.
38:30So this summer, it'll be 12 years that Tony and I have been married.
38:34So, I mean, Anthony and I, all we ever, ever wanted was to be together.
38:39That was it.
38:40We just wanted to be together.
38:42And we are.
38:43And we always will be.
38:45I said this at the very beginning, because, you know, right away the attorneys are like,
38:50well, we got paid and you didn't go to prison, so all's good.
38:54Yes, he gets to walk around and have a job and, you know, kiss me goodnight every night or whatever.
39:01I said, but do not think for a minute that this was some kind of damn gift.
39:06This is not a best case scenario.
39:09Give me a break.
39:10I don't know that there'll ever be closure because we didn't get justice.
39:19Anthony gets to walk around and do whatever he wants to do.
39:24I would have really liked for my dad to get justice.
39:28There was no justice.
39:30It doesn't matter that it's 12 years later.
39:36It hurts just as bad today.
39:37I would do anything I could to prove my innocence.
39:43But, you know, everybody's going to think something different.
39:48I struggle a lot still with, is Anthony innocent or is he guilty?
39:52We're a decade later and we just have questions and some things that probably will never be able to be answered because it's too late.
40:00Who 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.
40:17There'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.
40:27I'd like to say that the moral of this story is don't trust somebody who says that they're your friend, but then what kind of life do you have?
40:33Like, I'm still going to trust and I'm still going to be giving and loving and caring because that's what my dad would have wanted.
40:42A lot of this could have been avoided if people could just be themselves and tell the truth.
40:50Truth is the thing that everyone seeks.
40:53It's hard to come by.
40:56Just be honest.
40:57Say what happened or what didn't happen.
40:59Because someday they're going to have to answer to their maker for whatever they did.
41:06Both you and I, we're going to have to answer for our misdeeds and our mistakes.
41:11Monday, they will too.
41:13Monday, they will too.
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