Meet, Marry, Murder - Season 1, Episode 45 - Griggs - Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Applause] [Music] depression we've got three little boys and she's just wound up too much
how long she been missing for andrew griggs reports that his pregnant wife debbie has vanished into the night
there's something else 20 years later mr griggs was arrested on suspicion of his wife's murder
[Music] she talks about the fact that he's threatening her she talks about the fact
that she's scared i asked my mum what has he done to her what secrets has he been hiding where is debbie griggs
does andrew griggs know more about his wife's disappearance than he's letting on
and why has it taken 20 years for police to make their case the best lie is you know a 90 truth and he was pretty
good at doing that [Music] [Music] the third of six children and the eldest girl deborah elizabeth cameron big
sister big bundle of fun big trouble she got me into a lot of trouble she was there when i needed her
she'd bully me she'd pick on me she would fight we'd argue but if anyone else picked on me
she'd be there protecting me debbie's younger sister wendy remembers an idyllic childhood in
the seaside resort of deal in kent england where the cameron family had lived for generations it was fun
a bunch of friends all over the place and forever cycling everywhere i remember debbie scooping me up when i
sliced my leg open i remember her picking me up when i cut my head open carrying me
home kissing me better debbie would tell her siblings that hers was the kind of childhood she imagined
for her children when she became a mum and when in her mid-twenties she met andrew griggs she took her first steps
to making that a reality debbie and andrew met through mutual friends um they uh
andrew had a boat uh in uh which is a trawler that used to fish from that was at ramsgate and it was his
birthday party and debbie came to the party and they hit it off and their relationship started like
debbie andrew griggs was from a family that really made up the fabric of the community in dill they both came from
these these staunch long-term generation after generation after generation deal families
his particular family were fishermen theirs was the happy union of two well-known local families but debbie
soon discovered life hadn't always been plain sailing for her future husband it wasn't until debbie was engaged to
andrew that there was a conversation between her parents and andrew's parents and they disclosed that andrew had
previously had a business um in favisham and which failed and also a relationship that failed as
well this had caused him an awful lot of stress and anxiety to the extent they'd
had to seek treatment for it if debbie minded that her fiance hadn't been immediately upfront about his past
struggles it didn't seem to change her feelings for him in 1990 debbie and andrew were living together in walmar
road in deal later on in september they got married i think to to start off with it was they
were happy in 1992 their first son is born followed three years later by their second son parenthood came naturally to
mrs griggs adored those boys did everything anything with them for them took them everywhere just
she was so proud of them things were not all plain sailing though after her first child she did suffer
from postnatal depression and was treated for five months after that but she managed through
and it was quite clear that she was a loving mum but needed a bit of support from family and also from the doctors as
well with the second child she got it again but it wasn't so severe detective paul fatheringham would soon
develop an intimate knowledge of the greg's marriage i would use the term quite an old-fashioned relationship in
terms of andrew's expectations about working hard and his wife being at home looking after the children as uh making
sure that a meal was on the table for him he was often at sea whether that was sailing as a hobby or whether that was
for work for the fisheries business and he was very very focused on building the business
he would come home for an hour and a half maximum have dinner prepared for him ready on the table but
never eat as a family together or very rarely and then he would go out and he would go
to his um boat club he'd play squash he'd go swimming he would do social activities little pub
griggs is out all the time she's working hard at home with the kids andrew's absences became a source of
conflict between him and debbie but he did not change his routine or expectations
in 1997 their third son was born and for the first seven or eight years of their
marriage debbie appeared happy she was always seen with the boys she'd take the eldest to school she'd take the two
younger ones to their play group she'd collect them she'd come up at least once a week the children would play um she
was the party girl if there was ever there was a family party it was around at debbie's house debbie's time was
spoken for with family and work where she helped andrew andrew's time was much more of his own he worked hard
played hard and he saw who he liked in the summer of 1998 his wife began to question who he was keeping company with
debbie started becoming concerned about an infatuation that he seemed to have with a with a 14 year old child that was
known to the family debbie had suspicions that something was going on and she had suspicions that he was
having some kind of relationship with this young girl andrew seemed quite focused
on the child wanting to spend time with her to teach her to swim to teach her to
sail and also when the child was at the house some of the activity and messing around with their own children
seemed to be over familiar is how debbie described it and he was really quite blatant about it he began
to flirt with again a child under his wife's nose in front of debbie debbie kept a notebook jotting down her
fears about andrew's behavior it describes the relationship the one-sided relationship
it describes how he works comes home for an hour and a half and then goes off never has meals
with the children he spends more time with her than with us she wrote she had suspicions but she had no proof
of wrongdoing was mrs griggs reading all of this wrong and if she was not reading it wrong
what sort of a man had she married good evening [Applause] [Music] eight years into their marriage debbie
griggs suspected her 37 year old husband andrew of being a pedophile as it turned out
she was not imagining things griggs met a young 14 year old girl he groomed that young girl
into having a sexual relationship with him and at one point she actually did confront them both
accused them of having a relationship but they they both denied it andrew griggs controls this vulnerable child by
lying to her he basically says that when she's questioned by his wife and asked whether she's having a sexual
relationship with him to lie but the reason that he says she has to lie is because if people find out people will
hate her this girl was told in no uncertain terms if anyone finds out about our relationship well your life
will effectively be over so it wasn't a threat of death it wasn't a violent threat but it was everyone will hate you
that's what predators do they convince the victim that it's their fault that they're the one responsible and at 14
you haven't the mental capacity and you haven't the understanding of how wrong this is and how innocent you are you
feel like you're to blame we can start to get a window into grigg's head this isn't a nice
man the relationship with the young girl carries on over a number of years and he apparently
became obsessed with her he was spending all his time with us you know like five
days a week that was the reality but debbie had no proof and they had both denied that they were having sex
debbie desperately wanted to believe her husband debbie just about accepted it she wanted
the marriage to work debbie didn't confide in anyone about anything that was going on in the marriage as far
as the family was concerned everything was perfect and you know smelling her roses loyal to andrew
debbie persevered with the marriage and early in 1999 she got some news that gave her hope that they could start
afresh in the middle of january 1999 she was pregnant with her fourth child she told andrew
and she was quite happy to give him the good news she wanted to complete the family with a girl she was very excited
about being pregnant again andrew's response was not what she expected he was really quite dismissive
back to say it's not mine i don't want to get rid of it he told her that the youngest boy
wasn't his he told her the baby she was carrying wasn't his she was devastated absolutely devastated
his reaction and and she admits that she slapped him around the face and burst into tears and ran out of the
house and got in a car drove 50 yards around the corner sat in a car and sobbed having another child with debbie was not
in andrew griggs's plan but this incident gave him his first opportunity to do something that was in his plan to
convince everybody who knew her that his wife was unstable on the 1st of march 1999 the
relationship is coming to a breaking point debbie wants him out the whole business with the fourth child
him rejecting it and him accusing her of having an affair is the straw that broke
the camel's back she wants him out of the family home she goes to the place of work his shop and demands the keys to
the house she grabs the keys and there is an incident that occurs andrew recounts it
as being how she violently attacked him and he ended up having a bite to his finger that he needed medical treatment
for later debbie describes in in a in a legal document that she did try and get the keys but actually she was grabbed
she was needing the stomach considering she was pregnant by andrew and that she did bite him and
to to make sure that she could be released and leave the premises debbie was playing into her husband's hands he
began spreading tales around town that were patently untrue andrew seems to be pretty consistent in his um
debbie's depressed also that she's a poor mum i think he was trying to set her up as somebody with
serious mental illness i think you know she she had suffered with with depression so all you know the
groundwork has already done for him he told a number of her very close friends that she was um a bad mother
difficult to live with not devoted to the children not caring of the children on the 25th of february
andrew speaks to his solicitor to instigate divorce proceedings over the preceding weeks the couple had
argued about who would get what if they were to separate griggs wanted to maintain absolutely everything he had
but get rid of debbie he didn't want any of his entitlements being taken away he
didn't want his life being messed up in any way debbie's got no money um he's not giving her any housekeeping to pay
the kids and she goes in and grabs the checkbooks and then there is an incident where he is
seems to be speaking to her and then she gets very agitated witnesses to this row would later report
that griggs had goaded debbie by accusing her of turning their sons against him now actually that happens in
front of a cctv camera so so i believe and actually the judge believed the court that he'd set that up
because an incident occurs where he she bites him and after she leaves he actually lifts
his arm up to the camera to show it off andrew griggs was gathering the ammunition that he needed
for his next step it's noticeable after that incident then andrew gets his solicitors to apply for
a non-molestation order where somebody's of fear of violence within a marriage there's insufficient evidence for police
to prosecute a member of a family can actually go to a court through a solicitor and ask the court to put an
order on the other person that they have to undertake that they're not allowed to
commit assault against somebody the order enshrined in court on police records the idea that debbie was either
mad or bad so andrew was putting this in place my view is not to protect himself my
view is he did the non-molestation order to try and evidence his divorce proceedings thinking about
what's going to happen in the future if so he was also placing debbie's perspective on the court records
[Music] andrew griggs was making his wife's life a living hell he withheld money she
couldn't afford to buy a pair of shoes for a boy [Music] he followed her if she went to a
friend's house he followed her and he'd sit outside to make sure she didn't go anywhere else
he told her she was a bad mother [Music] that she was just useless and mad debbie's diary kept on
the advice of her solicitor provides another insight into what happened within the four walls of the griggs home
she describes him as bombastic and bullying and that she genuinely fears he will seek to do her harm it seems that
she really felt that her life was at risk she talks about the fact that he's threatening her he talks about the fact
that she's scared so we know this is an abusive and hostile environment andrew griggs was bullying aggressive
threatening he was cutting off his wife from her assets andrew had already started rearranging at the end of
february rearranging the finances and wrote his bank to say i want a soul account because the arrangement they'd
had is that no money could go in and out of the business without debbie being a signatory to it
so he applied to the bank to have a sole account and the bank later agreed to that as long as his parents were
guarantors to me this feels like he's seeking to protect his financial assets against any future divorce settlements
she has an absolute entitlement to have access to that business but it shows the
control level this is about money she's a problem she's an expensive problem but
out of the blue on the 18th of march 1999 andrew had a change of heart andrew phones his solicitors to say
hold the divorce do not go ahead with the divorce we know there was a phone call between andrew
and debbie almost immediately afterwards we don't know what that conversation is but the
following day one of debbie's friends visits knowing that debbie is divorcing andrew and is really surprised to see
that andrews back in the house debbie's family were equally surprised at this u-turn in the
couple's relationship all these divorce papers were sort of ready to go and he kept going around there to take the
boys out and taken her flowers and started getting romantic with her and begged for
another chance i can only assume that andrew has persuaded debbie that he can move back in and then within a week or
so he's formally moved back into the house i'm guessing because debbie was pregnant
thought this was you know well why not he's promised not to have another affair it's going to work so we will
if that's what you want to do if you can trust him then go for it because you know three boys
she loved him you you gotta try so yeah we understood debbie was relieved to have her husband
back to put her mind at ease he promised to see less of his teenage friend was the greg's marriage back on track
if so why did debbie suddenly disappear i asked my mum what has he done to her yeah
it counter makes it quite clear to them that um debbie's targets are half of everything
she's suffering from depression um personal depression we've got three little boys and she's
just wound up too much debbie griggs said reconciled with husband andrew she told her family that
despite it all she still loved him she thought his motivations were the same in fact something else had prompted his
change of heart debbie's title to half of everything so there's going to be a significant financial impact on andrew
at this point andrew of course had to find an alternative he didn't want debbie in his life
anymore he wanted her gone however he didn't want to pay for her to be gone he didn't want to court order that would
say she would have half of his assets how was he going to create a life with this other girl if this was all
going on and what if she was going to make it difficult with his children so he he didn't want any of his entitlements
being taken away he didn't want his life being messed up in any way having decided divorce was not an option andrew
griggs had moved back in with his wife whilst in secret he formulated another plan
andrew continued to make arrangements over the coming weeks to to financially cut debbie off from the
the business even though he was now back living with her in mid-april griggs began dropping hints
to friends as to what this alternative solution might be griggs told a business contact that his wife now wanted half of
the business he was very rude in terms of what he described her as and actually said i want her dead
three weeks later andrew griggs betrayed his wife once again unto be known to debbie on the 2nd of may um andrew went
to look at a a boat that he was considering buying took his children out which is quite unusual for him to do and
debbie was clearly not happy with the fact that she then found that later that the
the other child also attended as well the other child was the now 15 year old girl he had groomed and was abusing the
next day he chatted with her on the phone after school before taking her swimming
he was able to break the law without turning her hair groom a child to be in a sexual
relationship with him going against everything he absolutely knows is wrong in his community in his society he's
also got no regard whatsoever for debbie and he was determined to make sure that
she couldn't get her hands on what he saw as his cash on the 4th of may we know that andrew went to the bank
with his parents and they were guarantors for the accounts and that's effectively when
debbie was cut off but during that day she actually bumped into a friend and was
in a really positive mood i was talking about the fact that she's working through things with with andrew and then
talked about arrangements for the evening of the sixth where this friend was having a body shop
evening and debbie committed to go debbie never made it to her friend's gathering at
around nine o'clock on the evening of the sixth andrew griggs dialed 999 good evening
to help yeah i'd like to report this in person and how old is the missing person yeah
54 34 yeah my wife right has she been missing before yeah [Applause] we've got three little boys and she's
just wound up too much all right greeks had spent the day spreading the same story debbie was
mentally unravelling and she'd run off into the night on the morning of the 6th of may griggs takes his children to
school whilst there he speaks to some of the other parents and tells them that debbie has gone and that she's left him
how long has she been missing for since late last night late last night yeah she's always
gone yeah four five six hours griggs claimed that his wife had walked out late the
previous evening after a brief argument a claim he would repeat again and again when you fall asleep she's in the
kitchen what is the next thing you recall uh debbie's shouting and screaming and saying what
um it's right for you to come home and fall asleep um let's see how you keep doing 24 hours
ago seven days a week i'm here all day with them andrew reports that at um and the story
changes and the time changes to be honest but certainly after nine o'clock that they have a row and debbie um
storms out says something like see how you like looking after the children 24 7.
and uh and i'll i'll be back in a week has she taken any money with her yes she's got
must be about 250 pounds again griggs pressed home the message that his wife was unstable
unpredictable you're going to be asked when we get a patrol round there has there been any domestic problems yes
the story griggs had been telling friends and family for months had all been leading up to this moment his wife
angry depressed a terrible mother had left of her own accord but after a bit of a row about how she
felt put upon with looking after those three boys constantly without much help from him
she just simply said well you have the children now you see what it's like i will leave so she just simply left in
the middle of the night so your main concern is a depression i take here she is pregnant as well
she's been under the doctor for depression um for a while and i think you've contacted all family
members yeah family members all friends in fact riggs had only been in touch with his wife's family and friends late
on the afternoon of the sixth almost 24 hours after he claimed to have last seen
her nobody had heard from debbie i asked my mum what has he done to her he's got to have done something to her
because debbie just would not have left those children kent police launched a search
at the same time they were building a timeline of the previous evening on the fifth of may we know that andrew
came home from work we know that between seven and eight in the evening debbie had a conversation with her a close
friend and organised for the following morning that debbie would collect her trans
children to take them to nursery that's the last contact that we know that we have with anyone other than than what
andrew tells us that's happened andrew told police that debbie had driven off in her white peugeot at around 10 30 p.m
on the 5th debbie's car was missing when the police turned up and they didn't find it so it fitted
with andrew's story but reports from other residents of crossroad deal cast doubt on his version of events one of
the neighbors reported seeing at about 2 a.m her white peugeot reversing off the
drive and being driven away there's another witness that comes much later but still says that actually they saw
the car drive off the drive at four o'clock in the morning debbie's family found the idea of her walking out hard
to believe with what we knew of debbie there's no way did she do that i myself as a mother
think i could do with a break but to just walk out debbie would never she'd made arrangements
to go to parties to go and see her mother it was her mother's birthday within a week of her disappearance
this wasn't a woman who would simply just up and go where was debbie griggs was she the mentally unstable woman
depicted by her husband andrew who had simply run off or was she as andrew had said privately
that he would like to see her dead i know that the police searched debbie's house garage they even dug up
the gardens detectives were putting pressure on andrew griggs but despite discrepancies
he stuck to his story when she woke me up saying that oh you've fallen asleep [Music]
you know and then started moaning about having the boys 24 hours a day seven days a week
on may the 12th a discovery that threatened to blow the husband's story apart the police found debbie's car a week
after her disappearance parked in a residential area of deal which is about a mile walk from
the home address there was no trace of debbie but a search of the car yielded something sinister there was a smear of
blood which later turns out to be we could prove it's debbie's blood diane ginova solicitor for the crown
prosecution service says that this was the moment the case changed for police at first it was a missing person's
investigation but it then quickly developed into a murder investigation debbie griggs four months pregnant with
three little boys at home was feared dead and the number one suspect the man who had been feeding detectives
his version of events from the start the police were very concerned that andrew griggs
had almost set up his defense at the outset he told a number of people that debbie
was a bad mother we had found absolutely no evidence of that quite the country he told the police that she had mental
health problems that she was depressed almost suggesting that she was suicidal again
the police found absolutely no evidence of her being depressed at that particular time
and the police realized very quickly that he was telling lies he was being inconsistent
griggs stuck to his story and denied any involvement with the child that he was abusing because of uh debbie's concerns
about his uh inappropriate relationship with uh with a child um that was part of the investigation
but there was no evidence to corroborate it um and and the young lady in question
didn't provide any information that was that was able to support that despite andrew
griggs's denials detectives were convinced he was their man but actual proof was thin on the ground i know that
the police searched debbie's house garage they even dug up the gardens they searched the fields
around it and obviously were searching the streets none of those excavations revealed
anybody one of the core aspects of the murder investigation to take it forward is to have
a body and we didn't have a body um so so actually we had a circumstantial case and even what andrew had told us had
some truth in what he's saying the best lie is you know a 90 truth and he was pretty
good at doing that she wrote me up you know and then started moaning about having the
boys 24 hours a day seven days a week the police carried out a very intensive investigation at the time of the murder
but at that time back in 1999 it was decided that there just wasn't sufficient evidence to prosecute
it was a frustrating time for kent police and a heartbreaking one for debbie's loved ones we didn't believe
he was walking away from it or walking getting away with it we couldn't understand why
the police couldn't put everything together and break him down so that he would crack and tell us what had gone on
months passed with no breakthroughs then months turned to years but in 2002 almost three years after
debbie had vanished a possible in andrew's armor we know andrew is looking to move away and move away from the area
down to dorset so the business goes up for sale and when the new owner comes in there's
actually some documentation that they find and within the documentation is what some would describe as a love
letter from what turns out to be the 14 year old child saying how much um she loved him
and actually there clearly was a relationship so that's the first bit of solid evidence even though you know it
was it was in a letter that we would need to cooperate that andrew actually had been
in a relationship not only proof of griggs's abusive relationship with a child but also a potential motive for
murder all of a sudden the reason for wanting debbie dead is strengthened because of um not just the
financial aspect for debbie but also the fact that we may have evidence that he was a pedophile
that he had raped a child andrew's rearrested for the sexual offenses and and we do
get a disclosure at that stage uh from the uh from the young lady about what happened but hopes for a prosecution
were dashed once again the file was looked at by the cps and again it was decided that there
wasn't sufficient evidence devastating for the team devastating for the family at that point
um and uh and no obvious lines of inquiry at that time to to continue to pursue andrew and his sons moved to dorset to
begin a new life he remarried cutting off all contact with debbie's family not only did we lose
debbie the baby we lost those boys as well years passed with no news her family never stopped looking for her though in
their hearts they knew there was little point mum went she searched the streets for hours upon
end just looking for debbie she phoned all of her contacts again no joy whatsoever
she rang all the newspapers to try and get the newspapers to write something just to bring debbie to the light so
that somebody somewhere may have heard or seen something everything goes on around you
children are born you laugh you joke you see a thing and suddenly deb is there she's in your
head and everything breaks again it leaves you empty leaves you devastated it leaves you
wandering hoping wishing in 2018 paul fatheringham was heading up kent police's cold cases team when a
colleague approached with a case he was keen to look at with fresh eyes the disappearance of debbie griggs we
started the cold case team working with him as well to start pulling out the old
files reviewing whether there's anything that we might have missed we also carried out a number of inquiries
we call them proof of life inquiries proof of life is something which can be use of bank accounts use of
her mobile phone use of the nhs registration of the birth of the baby that she was carrying at the
time she disappeared there was no evidence of debbie griggs's existence since the day that she
vanished in may 1999. for the third time the police took the case back to the cps
the crucial factors which changed between 2002 and 2018 was simply that there was no proof of
life for debbie that really strengthened the case the fact that 20 years had gone
past and there was absolutely no evidence whatsoever of this woman being alive certain by now that 34 year old deborah
elizabeth griggs had died in may 1999 the cps agreed to bring charges against her husband in march 2019 debbie's
sister wendy by then living in new zealand received a call that she'd almost given up hope of ever getting it
was from her younger brother wayne and i did a lot of skype and facetime and he was quite excited to be telling
me that dad had the police round this morning at 6 30 and he said that the police had to
be with dad to tell him that there were other police in dorset arresting andy police body cam footage
shows andrew griggs impassive as he's taken away in handcuffs almost 20 years after his first wife's disappearance
had he always expected this day to come or by now did he think he was home and dry
we go to dorset and we arrest him and produce him before court and he gets formally charged with
the offensive murder before we knew it there was just the flood of everything going on at the same time
with him being arrested charged um he was released out on bail which we were a bit disappointed with
but then we found the court case was only in a few months time so it was okay we could cope with that
in october 2019 andrew griggs stood trial at canterbury crown court prosecutor diane ginova knew her task
would not be an easy one legally it was a very difficult case circumstantial evidence is evidence which
shows which suggests that the defendant is guilty of a crime in this case there are a number of
strands of circumstantial evidence the body had not been found so there was not direct evidence the prosecution
could never at any point say how debbie was murdered but the prosecution could say with
conviction that she was murdered because her body had never been found the evidence in this case
was based on statements from her family and friends who knew that she just wouldn't simply
up and leave in the middle of the night and of course the major discrepancy in andrew greek's version of what happened
that night during the trial one of the critical aspects was the movement of the car at two o'clock in the morning at
four o'clock in the morning my view is that andrew's murdered debbie two o'clock in the morning he puts
debbie in the car takes her somewhere comes back and then four o'clock in the morning he
drives off to dump the car in his defense andrew griggs stuck to the same story that he'd been telling for 20
years throughout all his lengthy interviews which run to some 1500 pages andrew griggs has always denied
murdering his wife his defense has always been that she left she left in the middle of the night
never to be seen again he had nothing to do with her disappearance and he did not murder her
on a dry cold day at the end of october 2019 the jury retired to consider its verdict debbie's family's 20-year wait
was almost over would they finally see justice we were all sat in a little room waiting
for the outcome we were sat there bickering fighting crying i went outside and broke down for quite
a while this was never going to be an easy case to prove however we were satisfied that we had enough
evidence for the case to go before a jury and for a jury to conclude beyond a reasonable
doubt that andrew griggs was guilty of murdering his wife debbie the jury filed back it was the long-awaited moment of
truth a verdict was returned when i heard the jury unanimously say guilty and i saw his face
his shock on it it's just the feeling was everything i didn't know what to cry with to laugh
to scream to what we were just so elated that we'd finally got him after all that time
he was finally going down it was a moment of relief for debbie's loved ones after 20 years of anguish but
not all in the court felt the same there are probably very mixed emotions for the family on the one hand we have
three sons who were brought up by their father brought up having been led to believe
that their mother had just simply abandoned them walked off in the middle of the night
leaving them behind they've been brought up by the murderer of their mother on the other hand we have her family her
mother who unfortunately died before the decision to charge had been made her sisters
her family who have been deprived of seeing the three boys ultimately have justice
for debbie on handing down griggs's sentence the judge reflected the pain and confusion
that the killer's continued denials have caused when the judge sentenced mr griggs
he commented upon the defendant having brought the children up but having deprived debbie their mother
of that opportunity to bring her own children up and also deprive the boys of knowing a
really loving devoted and caring mother who thought the world of them so the boys had been brought up to live a
lie and we all realized in the prosecution team how difficult it would be for those
boys to come to terms with not only the loss of their mother but now the loss and long-term
imprisonment of their own father it's a closure of sorts for her family but that
will never be complete until they can bury her it remains to be seen whether andrew griggs
will allow the family to have closure and bury debbie in the way that they would want
her to rest in peace [Applause] [Music] um [Music] you

In 1999, pregnant mother of three Debbie Griggs disappeared without a trace. Twenty years later, the police finally solved the mystery.

Though wedded couples vow to stay together until death do they part, this new true crime series looks at what happens when a groom or bride causes their beloved's death.

Brief Summary

Debbie Griggs vanished in 1999; her husband Andrew was later convicted of her murder after years of investigation.

Key points

Debbie's Disappearance. Debbie Griggs vanishes, leading to a 20-year mystery surrounding her husband Andrew.
Andrew's Dark Secrets. Andrew Griggs is suspected of grooming a young girl while married to Debbie.
The Breaking Point. Debbie confronts Andrew about their troubled marriage and his infidelity.
Debbie's Disappearance. Debbie Griggs goes missing under mysterious circumstances, leading to a police investigation.
Discovery of Blood. A smear of blood found in Debbie's car turns the investigation into a murder case.
Andrew Griggs Arrested. After nearly 20 years, Andrew Griggs is arrested for the murder of his wife Debbie.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Debbie still loved him.

Despite everything, Debbie believed in Andrew's motivations.

19:39WatchJun 8, 2022

Tension

85/ 100High tension

More from True Crime Files

Solve the Crime

Read a real case one clue at a time, then see how your call held up against the investigators.