What happened to Byron Griffy?
Co-owner of Charles-Anthony Funeral Home Anthony Wright mentioned in the series that he and his business partner Charles Giebler visited Byron’s farm to take their fellow mortician to lunch on October 12, 2012, the day before his 76th birthday.
Upon arrival, Anthony noted that the gate was locked. He informed agents from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, as seen in interview footage, that he and Charles reached the farm around noon.
Authorities discovered two missed calls on Byron’s cell phone, with the first call from Charles at 12:43 p.m. Anthony told CBI agents that they briefly searched for Byron’s new house in Fowler but eventually gave up and drove back to Florence, Colorado, which took about an hour.
When Byron did not appear for dinner that evening, Linette and Gina decided to check the farm for him.
Gina was the first to discover Byron lying in an empty bedroom of their old house, deceased from a single gunshot wound to the back of his head.
“There was very little blood,” former Otero County Sheriff’s Captain Carol Coates recalled about the crime scene in the series. “I think my words were, ‘It’s weird.’
Otero County District Attorney James Bullock stated in the series that Byron’s body appeared staged, resembling someone lying face-up in a coffin.
Charles and Anthony took care of the funeral arrangements and, according to Gina, “pretty much the whole town” attended Byron’s funeral on October 19.
Charles, who also served as a church deacon, delivered the eulogy.
