Teen Shoots Dad To Death, Stabs Mom To Death: Who Is Collin Griffith?

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Collin Griffith shoots his father to death at 15 and claims self-defense. 18-months later, Collin Griffith kills his mother, he is now 17 and claims self-defense again. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take on the story of the teen who killed both of his parents, in different states and in different years and used two different types of weapons to kill his parents and claims self-defense. It is a story can only be understood when the forensic evidence is brought to the front. Collin Griffith, 15, is charged with killing his father on February 14, 2023 in Oklahoma. Judge drops charges. Same teen, now 17, charged with killing his mother September 8, 2024, jury decision Not Guilty. What Happened!

Transcript Highlights00:00.23 Introduction

03:04.77 The Fickle Finger of Fate, defined

04:59.94 Boys kills dad when he is 15 and mother when he is 1709:53.26 The prosecution walking a tight wire talking about age of suspect

15:44.30 Finding a weapon doesn't tell the whole story

20:25.10 Kills dad with a gun, claims self-defense

25:42.92 Judge drops the charges against the boy30:23.32 How does a teen kill both parents, time and distance apart35:22.38 What evidence is left behind in the blood40:13.23 Griffith claims long fight leading up to fatal injury

43:03.56 Conclusion

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:04.0	There are many things that have happened to me throughout my life where I didn't think I had a shot at it.
0:12.0	Thankfully, some really cool things came about as a result of those things coming to fruition that never saw it really
0:24.2	happening for me. But, you know, when you begin to think about the rules or laws of probability,
0:33.6	there are certain things within the physical realm that you look at and you just say,
0:39.5	I just don't know how that's physically plausible.
0:47.0	I'm thinking right now about the Courtney Clenney case that's going on down in Florida, where she alleges that she took a knife
0:59.8	and threw it and stuck it into the chest of her rather ample-sized boyfriend and led to his
1:07.0	death almost immediately. Chances of that happening are, I guess, slim and none.
1:14.6	But there's another case out of Florida, too, that has recently been adjudicated.
1:22.9	And it involves a story of a young man and his mother. And his claim is that his mother slipped and fell upon a knife blade that wound up creating a fatal injury in her neck.
1:43.6	Plausible, possibly, possible, unlikely.
1:50.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
1:56.0	I've seen a lot of bizarre things over the course of my career as a medical legal death investigator, Dave.
2:05.0	Some things just defy explanation.
2:08.9	Some of the more bizarre things, you know, I'm thinking about right now.
2:14.9	Wrong place, wrong time.
2:22.8	I guess we could probably do an entire episode on some of these oddities because they do exist. You know, you look at it and you think, wow, you know,
2:30.6	that could have been me or, you know, you can't tell you how many times I've been surrounded by cops that, you know, that could have been me or, you know, you can't tell you how many times I've been
2:36.3	surrounded by cops that, you know, they would start off a conversation with what are the odds,
2:43.5	you know, while we're standing over a body, you know, just over and over again, where, you know, my old friend, Dr. Parker, who I've quoted
2:54.5	before on this program, he used to refer to it as the fickle finger of fate. But, you know,
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