When Byron Griffy was killed the day before his 77th birthday in 2012, it seemed as if the entire town of Florence, Colo., was left reeling.

Byron was "a pillar of the community," former Otero County Sheriff's Captain Carol Coates said in the new Investigation Discovery series The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder , premiering Nov. 26. "Pretty much everyone knew who he was."

And authorities knew they had quite the mystery on their hands when they saw the crime scene.

The funeral home director died of a single gunshot wound to the head on Oct. 12, 2012. He was found by his daughter and her wife in an empty bedroom of the farmhouse their family had recently vacated after a number of alleged break-in attempts.

There were no defensive wounds on the body or evidence of a struggle, an

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