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S3 Ep344: The Wrongful Death Lawsuit | The Unanswered Death of Christian Griggs (Part 4)

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of October 12, 2013, 23-year-old Army veteran Christian Griggs went to his in-laws’ property in Angier, North Carolina to pick up his young daughter, Jaden. At 10:54 a.m., he called his father Tony to say that his father-in-law, Reverend Pat Chisenhall, was yelling at him while his estranged wife Katie hid inside the house. Six minutes later, at 11:00 a.m., Tony arrived at the Chisenhall home to find his son lying face-down, bleeding and unresponsive. Pat had shot him six times with a .22 rifle. Once in the abdomen, once on the top of his left shoulder, and four times in the back.

Christian was rushed to the hospital, where he was soon pronounced dead. As his family struggled to process the sudden loss, detectives began piecing together what had happened that fateful morning. What they uncovered were conflicting accounts, multiple 911 calls, and questions that would haunt the case for years to come.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:15.4

And I'm Derek Lavasser. So today we're diving into the fourth and final part of the Christian Griggs case.

0:20.7

And I hope that all will be illuminated and we'll all have a better understanding of what happened in this case and where we're left off. That is my hope.

0:31.7

So let me give you a quick recap on the morning of October 12, 2013, 23-year-old Army veteran Christian Griggs went to his

0:39.2

estranged wife, Katie's parents' home in Angier, North Carolina, to pick up his daughter, Jaden.

0:44.4

At 10.54 a.m., he called his dad to say that his father-in-law, the Reverend Pat Chishishishol,

0:49.6

was yelling at him while Katie hid inside. Six minutes later, Tony Griggs, who is Christian's father,

0:55.6

arrived to find his son lying face down on the porch, bleeding from six gunshot wounds,

1:00.3

four of them in the back. Christian was rushed to the hospital but died shortly after noon.

1:06.2

Investigators quickly discovered that multiple 911 calls had been placed in the minutes leading

1:10.3

up to the shooting,

1:11.2

but not all of the details matched. Pat claimed Christian was breaking into the home and threatening

1:16.4

him and Katie while Katie said she was hiding in a closet during the gunfire. Yet, when dispatch

1:22.1

reviewed the recordings, no gunshots could be heard during her call, even though, based on her

1:27.0

story, Katie was only a few feet away from Pat when he said he fired and from where he said he fired the shots.

1:35.1

So as detectives processed the scene, more questions emerged. There were no bullet holes in the curtains, shutters, window frame, or glass.

1:43.0

Fingerprint and blood testing on the windows came back negative.

1:46.0

Three shell casings were found inside the house, but the other three were missing.

1:49.7

That same evening, the scene was turned back over to the chis and friends from the church were allowed to clean it up.

1:55.7

Days later, Pat walked detectives through a filmed reenactment, describing Christian as enraged and breaking through a

2:01.7

window, but his account was vague and contradicted earlier statements. He also claimed to have

2:06.6

little to no memory of what happened. Now, despite the inconsistencies in Pat and Katie's accounts

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