What happened to Nancy Graces' former fiance Keith Griffin?

Answer 1

Nancy Grace was engaged to a man named Keith Griffin. He was murdered in Georgia. And the man who killed him is serving a life sentence. In that, Ms. Grace's version lines up with the official records from the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, newspaper articles from the time of the murder, and interviews with many of those involved in the case. But those same sources contradict Ms. Grace when it comes to other salient facts of the crime and the trial--the facts that form the basis of Ms. Grace's crusade against an impotent, criminal-coddling legal system. * Griffin was shot not by a random robber, but by a former co-worker. * The killer, Tommy McCoy, was 19, not 24, and had no prior convictions. * Mr. McCoy confessed to the crime the evening he was arrested. * The jury convicted in a matter of hours, not days. * Prosecutors asked for the death penalty, but didn't get it, because Mr. McCoy was mildly retarded. * Mr. McCoy never had an appeal; he filed a habeas application five years ago, and after a hearing it was rejected. Ms. Grace has also misreported the date of the incident--it was in 1979, not 1980--and has given Griffin's age as 25 when it was 23. The justice system, in other words, apparently worked the way it was supposed to.[my emphasis] In an emotional phone interview ranging over the inconsistencies in her account, Ms. Grace said, "I have not researched the defendant. I have tried not to think about it." "She has bent some stuff," said Steve Griffin, Keith Griffin's brother, in an interview with The Observer. "The reality of it is, the guy killed him. I know that. Our family knows that. There's nothing we can do to bring him back. What she's gonna say, she's gonna say. I'm not gonna stop it. "But if she doesn't tell the truth, it's gonna come out sooner or later."