A 15-year-old boy killed his father on Valentine's Day in 2023.

There was no disputing who did it, although the circumstances of it were murky,

because no eyewitnesses saw what happened or knew why.

Colin Griffith was living with his father in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, at the time he shot him,

once in the chest and once in the head. The teenager claimed his dad cornered him in his bedroom with a knife,

so Colin alleged he shot his dad in self-defense. Colin said he wanted an attorney when police officers

tried to interview him, according to the

Lincoln County News. His mother paid the $50,000 bond to get him released from custody.

Colin was charged with first-degree murder, but the charge was dropped less than a month later.

Authority said they couldn't disprove his self-defense assertion.

Some states have open records laws,

so it's easy for journalists and for the public to get information on crimes.

Other states don't.

Oklahoma is one of them.

The records are shrouded in secrecy.

A spokesman from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Inspection, which is the state's law enforcement agency, told us, per state statute, we do not

provide records or documentation regarding our investigations. And so not charged with any kind of

wrongdoing, Colin left Oklahoma and went to live with his mother in Florida.

18 months later, she was dead.

You're going to hear that he was there as he watched the blood and the life drain from her body until she took her final breath and was officially dead.

This is Jillian in partnership with law and crime. You are listening to Court Junkie.

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