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Nancy Grace
(1958-)
Who Is Nancy Grace?
Nancy Grace was on track to become an English professor in 1979 when her fiancé, Keith Griffin, was shot to death. As a result of the event, Grace began a life in the field of criminal justice. After obtaining her degree in constitutional and criminal law from New York University, Grace found her way to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office, in Atlanta, where she served as a special prosecutor. Due to her take-no-prisoners courtroom approach, Court TV hired her to host a live trial coverage show, Closing Arguments. She later co-hosted Cochran and Grace and Swift Justice with Nancy Grace. As one of TV's most followed legal analysts, she became host of the top-rated show, Nancy Grace. In 2016 she stepped down from her on-air duties.
Early Life
Nancy Grace was born in Macon, Georgia, on October 23, 1958. At age 19, she was poised to enter the academic world as an English professor, but in a twist of fate that would change the course of her life, her fiancé, Keith Griffin, was shot and killed. Afterward, Grace gave up her academic plans and instead set her sights on a career in criminal justice. She went on to earn bachelor's and Juris Doctor degrees from Mercer University and an advanced legal studies degree from Ne
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Nancy Grace: My fiancé’s 1979 murder fuels my career now
Years before she became Nancy Grace, legal commentator and host of her own show, “Crime Stories with Nancy Grace” on Fox Nation, she was Nancy Grace, a 19-year-old English literature major at Mercer University in Georgia. She spent her days studying Shakespeare and dreamed of becoming a professor. She was about to be married to Keith Griffin, a 23-year-old geology student who had been earning extra money working for the Ingram Construction Company on the Georgia Kraft Plywood site near Madison, Ga.
And then tragedy struck.
One day in August 1979, a few months before the wedding, Griffin took the company truck out to buy sodas for himself and his co-workers. As he drove out of the Kraft Plywood entrance road and onto US Route 278, he was shot and killed by a former co-worker, Tommy McCoy, who had recently been fired from the construction company. McCoy had no prior criminal record.
The killing shattered Grace’s world; she completely lost her appetite, and dropped out of school for a time.
“I had no idea what was going on in the world until Keith was murdered,” Grace told The Post. “Since then, I’ve been driven by the idea that if I could stop one crime, it would be worth it.”
When she went back to school