What happened to Byron Griffy?
Charles-Anthony Funeral Home co-owner Anthony Wright said in the series that he and business partner Charles Giebler drove out to Byron’s farm to take their fellow mortician to lunch on Oct. 12, 2012, the day before his 76th birthday.
The gate was locked when they got there, Anthony said in the series. He told agents from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, per interview footage, that he and Charles got to the farm around noon.
Authorities noted two missed calls on Byron’s cell phone, the first one from Charles at 12:43 p.m. Anthony told CBI agents they briefly drove around Fowler looking for Byron’s new house, but gave up and made the hour drive back to Florence, Colo.
After Byron didn’t show up for dinner that night, Linette and Gina said they went to the farm looking for him.
Gina was first to find Byron lying in an empty bedroom in their old house, dead of a single gunshot wound to the back of the head.
“There was very little blood,” former Otero County Sheriff’s Captain Carol Coates recalled of the crime scene in the series. “I think my words were, ‘It’s weird.'”
Otero County District Attorney James Bullock said in the series that Byron’s body looked staged, as if he was lying face-up in a coffin.
Charles and Anthony handled the arrangements and, Gina said, “pretty much the whole town” turned out for Byron’s Oct. 19 funeral.
Charles, who was also a church deacon, delivered the eulogy.
