and i just want to make a difference for those who don't have a voice. that's all for this edition of "dateline extra." "dateline:extra," i am craig melvin, thank you for watching. ♪ not a day that goes by i don't think of them. get the police out to my house now. >> he came home and found his entire family gone. >> i said what are you talking about? what are you saying? >> is this real? am i really here, is this surreal? >> the cop suspected him. >> i did not do this.

i did not do this. >> she was upset. she felt history was repeating itself. >> he wanted to have the woman, his wife was in the way. >> were police playing wrong? >> it is like a spotlight zone. lies become the truth and truth becomes the lies. >> maybe the real killer is still out there. >> you have lied to the police about this case? >> yes, sir. >> devastating. >> we knew that was from and keep solving this. >> 13 years. >> such an awful crime. the wife. the little boy and girl shot at

point-blank range. >> i was dumbfounded and shocked of what i saw. how to comprehend it? >> i said what, what are you talking about? what are you saying? >> the husband had an alibi. >> he could not haves done anything. >> 13 years, three trials, appeals and reversals and changing story. a big picture here, a lot of people are sentenced to the crime. it does not pass the sniff test. it has been a long pursuit of justice. >> it gets more and more wrong. >> i kind of adopted this saying that when you enter into the courtroom, lies become truth and the truth becomes lies. there is another side, another family. one that sees a terrible miscarriage of justice. >> i wonder if everybody got

free trials, guilting people when they're out walking on the streets. >> there is one indisputable truth. they were nothing less than innocence loss. >> what do you miss about them the most? >> everyday. >> i can tell you whoever say time heals, have never lost a child. time does not heal anything. it is the thing that becomes apart of you. >> time. turn the clock back to the year 2000s, september 28 to be precise. thursday after work. >> southern indiana. a pick up basketball game was underway of the usual thursday

night guys. >> david cam a 36 years old manager was a regular. >> this is religion. >> we play a little basketball in indiana. >> that night, after the game wrapped up, david headed straight home. he and his wife had two children. the seven years old and little jill. usually david helps with the kids in the evening but on this night, he was late. she's going to be upset when i get home because i am not there to help. >> as he roll into his drive way, he clicked the garage door opened. >> a nightmare. >> the drive door just above my truck. >> ashley, at first i thought

she was still laying there. i didn't realize it was cam until i got into my truck and ran into the garage. that's when i saw it was kim. >> how did you take this? >> it is indescrible. >> i can't put it into words. running from her head. the doors were opened. >> when do you look at the vehicle? >> i don't remember how long it was. after checking on cam, she was gone. i just suddenly thought about where are the kids and my first instincts was look into bronco, i got up on the passenger's seat and that's when i saw the kids. there were blood in her hand. >> next to her was her brother.

>> was this a gunshot event. >> >> i di did not know how the so consul. >> i thought brad may have had a chance. >> that night in the garage david says, his police training kicked it. it seems to him that his daughter jill was dead. david knew he would have get his son out and give him cpr. >> i picked him up and turned around and left the same way i came in. >> exactly. >> do we have any size of anything? >> i remember looking at his

face. like with jill, they were half shut. it was pretty obvious that he was gone. >> this is all happening like what? 45 seconds of your life? >> maybe a minute. >> on the bloody garage floor, the bodies of his family, david knew he had to get help. >> we need help now. >> he called the indiana state police where he used to work at. >> david, we got people on the way. >> come here. >> everything is going to be okay, all right? >> no, everything is not okay. >> get somebody out here now. [ cries ] >> do you know what happened, david? >> david cam's 13 years journey

into hell. # coming up, come on quick, they're all dead, they're all dead. >> your family is dead, murdered. how do you begin to absorb that? >> it is all spinning inside my head. is this surreal and by really here it was surreal and what went down to the ground was leon rolling on the ground and stayed, why do i have to go? >> there were more pain, much more still to come when "dateli "dateline" continues. "dateline" continues she said she needed one. good thing walgreens is right around the corner with great gifts for her. get in. get out. get jolly. where did we hide danny's gift?

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>> after trying to revive his son. david ran across the street to his relative. >> david's uncle nelson was there. >> nelson, nelson, come fquick. >> somebody killed my family. >> i was dumbfounded of what i saw. >> he made his way carefully. like david, knew the crime scene had been preserved. >> i saw little jill right there. i touched her on her arms or so. >> you know she was gone. >> yes. i knew she was gone. >> i think they're all gone, david. >> david lost -- he went down to

the ground,. >> uncle nelson managed to get dave away from the garage. he was trying his best to get back in. >> you were the officer securing. >> i knew it had to be done. i knew we had a horrific crime scene here. david said he was way beyond understanding anything that night. >> the question had to be stopped. >> all this thing inside my head. really here -- it is surreal. that night was the end of everything david and kim had built together. >> they met in the late 1980s. they were introduced by marcy

mccloud. marcy had been best friend with kim ever since ninth grade. >> he was very quiet for the people that did not know her. they're funny and loyal. very sweet. >> david and kim married in 1989. kim in corporate accounting. here he is in uniform being interviewed in the 1990s of safety door during the holiday. >> he was soon remember the emergency kind of s.w.a.t. team. >> that's a band of brothers? >> yes, special weapons. >> right, exactly. >> i love those guys. we are talking about genotyuys would literally die for. >> overtime after the kids were born, david wanted to spend more time with his family. in may 2000s. he went to work as a manager in

his brother's business and left. >> you had this good thing you are going to and you wanted to have more of a life. i can see how much you like. >> yeah, i felt it was definitely, i was in a point of my life where i needed to make that change and i wanted to make that change. i presume that i would remain close with these guys and they would always be my friends and have my back. >> they seemed to be living a perfect life in september o of '07. kim was a totally engaged mom. a great mom. she takes those kids everywhere. >> the kids were like my grand kid. >> little jill, yeah, tell me about her. >> she's a character.

sh she really was. >> just a funny little girl. when she did not have your attention, she would get it. >> she would have been athletic. she's gifted in that way. >> brad was a swimmer. >> he loved it and he was great at it. being a father, i thought this kid is good. >> there were gathering in the extended families. the descendants of nine brothers and sisters on david's side. the locklehart had a road named after them. when all of this terrible stuff happens. the awful news for the two families that night. >> david eas to go to bed when the phone rings. >> julie went straight to her parents. >> mom had all the pictures of

brad and jill and was holding them and sitting on the floor and rocked them and saying my babies, my babies. somebody killed my babies. >> late at night, the doorbell rang, what can this be? >> oh, it can't be good. i go out and open tp door and there are a few -- my mind went blank. >> i got out there. he's been shot. i said to her, i could not believe it. >> on lockhart road, the sound of silence. a homicide investigation began and dave's friend and former colleague, the indiana police

state officer would be on the front line. >> coming up, something strange at the crime scene. kim's shoes placed neatly on top. >> what does that mean? when "dateline" continues. en "d. a lifetime appointment. but members of congress, and the corporations who've bought our democracy hate term limits. too bad. i'm tom steyer and i approve this message because the only way we get universal healthcare, address climate change and make our economy more fair is to change business as usual in washington.

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a mother and son and daughter gunned down in the garage of the family home in a quiet indiana community. >> the two kids never made it out. the answer to that question would be the responsibility of the investigators. the indiana state police and the prosecutor in southern indiana. he got the call at 10 or 10:30 at night. >> did someone tell you it is bad. >> he knew immediately that the case would be big. he got to the crime scene asap. first thing the prosecutors noticed is the ribbon running down the drive way. >> i almost stepped in it myself. he can see the wife. her pants were removed. >> little brad was on his back.

an article of clothing that's hugely important. >> he was laying there and his hands were out. i didn't see the little girl. the indiana top investigator force have already begun. >> was there anything odd or was it too soon to take any of that stuff? >> what struck me the most was how clean the garage was. you don't expect that. >> some of the troopers in the garage have been fellow officers of the husband's, david cam. >> there were a couple of them that i did not recognize. for the most part, it would be people that i knew. >> the lead investigator was david's childhood friend. they had the talk. >> i said just do it right, i

said it repeatedly. >> david cam knew about spouses. >> sure, not everybody is a suspect. you don't know. in his case, david thought it was a by the books. he was confident that his friends will do all he can to find the killer. >> these were your brothers in uniforms. >> right. >> you have done a lot of stuff? >> we have eaten together and we knew each other's families. >> they're close to us. >> in this audio tape of this first interview, we can hear the troopers handling with love and respect. as far as david knows, she

follows her usual routine. working and returning home around 7:30 p.m. >> was the murder wait for her in the garage? >> the investigators asked, was there anyone helping? >> they wanted to know if the husband could help them understand the odd ditity of th crime scene. why would kim's shoes would be at the top and neatly tucked. >> does she take her shoes off when she's driving? >> no. never. >> as the investigators wrapped up, they made sure david got some fresh clothing because they were sending his blood specks on

t-shirts and shoes on everything she could find. >> the next day, the cam's neighbor were stunned by a crime of this magnitude in a quiet community. >> there is never been any trouble out here. >> as the hunt for the killer continues, investigators ask neighbor if they see or heard anything specific. >> right now this is an open investigation. >> three days after the murder. david king went to campus. >> he begged others to come forward. >> turn yourself in. >> you can't live with the guilt which you did, you're an irrational and clueless, you can't live with that guilt.

snoor rest >> and rest in the case was only hours away. >> coming up. >> one medication, and headed into the casket. i got all this stuff going on. >> a husband and father in mourning. >> he got to face the second biggest surprise of his life? >> i am just telling you. >> it is wrong. >> when you are wrong, you are wrong, you are wrong. >> when "dateline" continues. n s she wanted to move someplace warm.

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treated for pancreatic kacancer. >> for nearly my entire life, i have never faced a fight quite like this one. >> back to "dateline." in the days after the murders. the uncles and aunts and nephph and nieces. >> we don't have a mother today >> just like that, gone. >> all gone. >> i am a mess. >> i am on medication. you know i am having my casket and all this stuff going on. three days after the murder, the india state police called david eun in for a second interview.

he sat down with two cops he known for a while. he's been sharing profiles with them for years. >> this time the tone of the interview has changed. because now investigators did have -- evidence they gathered pointed to david cam. >> a monster who murdered his family. >> the murder took place between 9:15 and 9:30 that night. the police had turned up and heard noises. maybe shots fired. >> david saw where this is going

and pushed back. >> it is not right. >> he's getting off the track. something is not wrong here. fix it. >> they told david about physical evidence they collected. specks of blood visible for the naked eye. a crime scene expert paid the husband and father.

the only way that comes along - >> the case against david cam. >> that's supposed to be on that t-shi t-shirt. >> dave, what are you doing in that child section? >> now, we got to figure out why. >> the cops had full confidence in their men. the news was tighten even if david protested.

>> it came from an impression or brad himself. >> there was more. sign of a clean up, it had to be david. >> until this day. >> no, no. no. >> no! >> i didn't clean up. somebody made him. >> it was not me. that person is your suspect. there was something disturbing. the medical examiner found when

they looked up the young daughter. >> sign of blunt trauma. david can't molest his own daughter. >> i did not do this. i did not feel this. >> i don't know. that's why i called you guys. >> that's why your job, that's what you are supposed to be doing. don't look so hard at me. >> i am so wrong. >> on the way to the restaurant. >> hours after his second interview. >> it had been three days since the shooting. >> coming up. accused of murder and evidence?

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it would mean the world to them, and they will love you forever. david cam once an indiana state trooper is now locked up in the county jail charged with the murder of his wife and children. >> tell me about your emotions? >> every time i heard key-jangle outside any door. david uncle in austin. he became his nephew -- >> whey did you take on more responsibility, as much as you can. >> i know he lost his family and

i know he lost his prim. he didn't lose me. ? the focus were so concentrated. >> maybe i don't have the pig hur here or something awful happen. well, never thought. i never did. >> kim's parents warning the loss of their daughter, ran children with about on se. >> their son-in-law was the killer >> i was just down with it. >> when it finally did sunk in. i rode back and forth. >> i was not sure. i was going by what police told me. >> they're convinced that their son-in-law had murdered his own daughter. >> david went on trial and

pleaded not guilty. >> by now, the prosecutor's timeline, norgeally he said david killed his family between 9:15 and 9:30, after he returns home from the basketball game. >> that's because the defensive shawn, the time of death was some where between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. >> now it is the price you give it to her. >> we went to the general at 7:00. >> five minute drive home. >> kill his family and return to lay ball. >> david was hope home at the time of the murder. >> so you got a husband who says i was playing basketball at 7:00. and you got a fort record that says, it is almost certain. >> and this phone call employees

his way out. >> the prosecute ere moves onto the crime scene and focus on what happens to keith. >> you accused the husband, why did you tell the grand jury. >> it is part of the state. >> kim did nothing rich. the mos cuters -- >> somebody was there no poll les you but ir going to break some how. >> investigators never rlocated the anywhere. >> how did that drop of blood got there with the approximate of the case. >> you get that, i will glow down your shorts.

>> if you have my impact, pat l on his the koo why would david friend? >> the reasons for those killing was the day that david camp. >> remember kim's old friend. the prosecutors heard him testified when kim was pregnant and late 1994. >> ksoon after, more visible biking in. >> she was upset and i don't

just. >> just three weeks before the murder. she had another phone call. >> her demeanor and her attitude. she did not want to hang up the phone. she did want to talk. >> the kim said something she never explained. >> she found history was repeated. we'll go into what it means. we'll talk about it it even when she got there. >> the prosecutor portrayed him

as a skocondrail. >> the sex and the scrip ling of ta patrol car. >> his wife got in the way. she was not what she wanted to pursue. >> that's correct. >> in the prosecutor had a cap. something really driven. the medical examiner's testimony that injuries were consistent with sexual abuse. >> now the little girl is falling on the monkey bars. >> so there was the prosecution accused. there is good things to you, i hope you had your work kaupcaug cup. >> that's not unusual. >> coming up. it is about molding, i believe that was totally found unharmed and things that want factual and

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the trial of david cam is underway in florida. it was the winter of 2002. he was accused of murder and his wife and young children, always insisted the case against him. >> it is about him crafting and molding a believe that was founded unharmed and things were factual and complete depiction. >> he told us he known david as a troop. >> how many impression you had of david before -

>> mccan yells came on board to defend it. >> this was the most terrible cases defensive wise. you never know. >> they'll make you crazy. at trial, mcdaniel knew he could confront all those people. >> the jurors get any picture of this. >> hardworking wife, running the household, yep. >> well, he's out with poll dancers. >> on duty. >> you got 13 women with varying degree of sexual contact . defense pulls out its strongest weapon and put david on the stand to say that he knew he

would mess up. >> i read all mistake. it is so unfortunately disrespect though. >> we don't jump them back. it is ridiculous. >> then the defense had to confront the ugly allegations, help bento po have been molester. >> we got a guy who seems to have a lot of girlfriend. there may be some evidence here. child moll leestation. >> defense turn to the physical evidence. state's strongest evidence, david's guilt launch the spout. >> the blood got on david's t-shirt simply. >> when david reach into the

backseat, his girt brushed against his daughter's hair. >> so, it is strange for contact with the strands of hair. >> and then time, the defense knows you are - david snuck out the middle of his basketball game. >> the defense attorney focused on the phone call at 7:19 p.m. when david said he was at the troop. >> the state tinabeth piñethert. >> the defense is getting unloaded. >> actually, it was my 6th phone

calls. >> even more important, david had a solid iowa. >> 11 eye witnesses. the basketball club. to corroborate his story. >> did he leave the court that night? >> no. >> he could not elect with one of you guys? >> because i would see him at one point in time and -- and in different directions as a group. >> i think someone would have notice that he was missing. >> it is impossible that dave could have slept away. >> is it possible of all he snuck out and killed his family and he snuck back down without any one of us knowing it. >> absolutely. that's impossible. >> if david was not the killer

then who was? the one that was lying b by -- mike mcdaniel, this is like the back gone of the building. >> okay, that's a nickname. >> dna and unknown metal. >> the prosecutor says there was no match. dna was running through the database. >> still, it seems to be a breakthrough for seen date. someone presented the garage opener. >> wayne knew it was the problem to solving this. we didn't know the person by name. >> finally, it was up to the jurors. >> the jury deliberated for three days. >> david cam was found guilty

killing his wife and children. >> that's what we wanted and now, they may be resting now. >> the minute i was standing up and i was screaming, you are wrong, you are wrong. >> and why you are not leaving . >> right. >> in knowing life that goes ahead of me, nothing i can do about it. >> david camp sent to the state mediation. his uncle think that i did n not - >> that's how they're going to kill me. >> david cam was facing 190

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>> he's guilty. he's guilty. >> reporter: in early 2002, david camm was found guilty on three counts of murdering his wife and two children. >> it wasn't long odds, in my mind. i mean, 'cause it was way over the top. >> reporter: what was over the top, they argued, was allowing all those women to testify to the sex, the groping, the come ons. >> i mean, it was weeks after weeks, woman after woman. >> how is that relevant to what happened on september 28th? >> "jurors, this is a bad guy we got here?" >> absolutely. >> he's a louse of a husband and we're gonna tell you more than that. >> that was intentional, too. >> reporter: and guess what? two-years after the guilty verdict, the appeals court agreed: the women should never

have been permitted to testify. the conviction was overturned. but the victory was short lived. a new prosecutor announced there wo sond trial. >> after review of the previous evidence and review of uh some new evidence that has come to light, i've decided to pursue the charges against david camm for the murders of kimberly camm, bradley camm, and jill camm. >> reporter: with another trial looming, the defense team was intent on bringing sharply into focus a piece of evidence it believed would set david free. the gray sweatshirt, with that unknown male dna. back in 2001, the prosecutor said there had been no match when the dna was run through a national criminal database. but sam lockhart says he approached the new investigators to run it through again. >> they weren't even wanting to talk to me. i wanted to show 'em . >> i said "in case that this guy had been arrested now, and you got new d.n.a. on that databank, would you run this?" "no, we can't take it."

>> reporter: then the attorneys tried. they asked the prosecutor. >> we start saying, "please run the dna through the data bank." "please do it," and he refuses. >> reporter: the state finally ran the dna three months after sam lockhart first started asking about it. >> and low and behold, we find charles boney. >> charles boney. does this name mean anything to you? >> didn't mean a thing. i'd never heard the name before. uh, it was a complete shock to me. >> reporter: charles boney. a name that would change everything in the case against david camm. boney. his prison nickname was "backbone": the same name inked in on the sweatshirt's collar. >> who does this guy "boney" turn out to be? >> as brainy as ted bundy and as brawny as mike tyson. he's a sociopath. >> reporter: charles boney -- a criminal with a history of violent crimes against women. it began in the 1980's, when he was a student at indiana university. newspapers called him the shoe bandit, and followed his bizarre crimes. there'd been four separate incidents -- his early m.o.?

he'd knock a woman to the ground and make off with one of her shoes. >> really creepy stuff like one crime, he wore one of those china doll masks. i mean, like creepy stuff you can't make up. >> reporter: the police were onto him. after one arrest, he admitted in effect, that he had a thing for ladies' legs and feet. he pleaded guilty to those crimes, and in time, his attacks became more violent. he began threatening women at gunpoint. one incident involved three coeds. >> he had been watching them and one night, just walked into their apartment, held them at gunpoint to their head, took them out, kidnapped them to the car. luckily, somebody saw him with the gun leading the women out, called bloomington police department. >> reporter: he pleaded guilty again and was sentenced to 20-years in prison for armed robbery, but was released after serving only seven- years. out on parole and the defense

maintains he still had the old >> yes. he -- has a foot fetish and so when they thought at first that it was not a sex crime, we kept saying well, not everybody targets the same place in sex crimes. >> reporter: kim camm had bruising on her toes. her shoes were on top of the bronco. her pants had been removed. and boney's sweatshirt with his dna was at the crime scene. and it turns out, that dna had been in the database three years before the murders. >> it took one hour and one email to find charles boney. that could've been done in 2002, had prosecutor faith done it. >> and you'd think on a case on which, you know, children and a mom are murdered, ambushed in a garage that they would bend over backwards to do it right. >> reporter: stan faith was the prosecutor in trial one. >> the defense said, "well, we asked you, the state, the

prosecutors to send that out." >> to be balanced, to be tested against a national register of dna, and --. >> i asked the lead investigator to do that. and he said, "we didn't get anything." and that's why --. >> but in fact he hadn't sent it out at all? >> no, i think he sent it out. well, he hadn't sent the proper dna. >> reporter: faith says he later learned the detective sent out the wrong dna sample from the sweatshirt. mike mcdaniel, david's first defense attorney, isn't buying that. >> i think he's a liar. >> you don't think he ever ran it? >> no, i don't think he ever asked anybody to run it. >> he told you he did? >> yes. >> so when he says that the prosecution is lying. >> lying means that you knowingly -- you tell a falsehood. i didn't tell him a lie. i told him what i thought was true. >> reporter: what ever the truth is, now more than four years later, there was a name to that dna. >> do you allow yourself to think, here we are on our way to case closed, finally? >> absolutely. >> we've got a name -- >> sure. >> we've got genetic, forensic evidence. this is the shooter. >> right, that --. >> --this is the killer.

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>> reporter: by 2005, david camm had been behind bars for more than four years. >> generally, from september through february were my darkest times of the year. >> you know, the times of the murders. and then you have the holidays and then the kids' birthdays in february. >> did you feel yourself becoming institutionalized? >> i had to, to a degree. and for me, it was a matter of, you know, sitting back and observing and seeing how things operate. so that i could fit in enough,

you know, to be okay. you know, i had to lock the real me down inside. >> how were his spirits, julie? was he holding on or was he sinking? >> dave would sink only briefly, he would have lows. there'd be times when i'd talk to him and he'd sound really down, but he never stayed there. because he couldn't stay there. you know? staying in that despondency, that hopelessness is excruciating. >> reporter: but now there finally seemed to be a break in the case. the unknown male dna on the sweatshirt had been identified as charles boney's. and just two days later, the cops brought boney in and started grilling him on how it ended up on the garage floor. >> that sweatshirt is in the middle of a crime scene of a triple homicide. somehow, that sweatshirt got there, your sweatshirt. you explain to me how it got there.

>> i have no idea. >> reporter: boney admitted the sweatshirt had once been his, but said he'd dumped it in a salvation army dropbox about a month before the murders. >> it shows up at a crime scene. not laundered, not washed. if it would have went though the salvation army drop box that would have been a clean sweatshirt. your dna, chances are probably wouldn't have been on there, but it is. >> i see where you're coming from. >> reporter: as for david camm? >> do you know david camm? >> no. >> you ever met david camm? >> no. >> do you remember the murder of david camm's family? >> on television, yes. >> do you know where david camm lives? >> only on television. i don't even know what his address is. >> reporter: the interrogation went on for some 12 hours with boney sticking to his story. the detectives released him with a warning. >> make no mistake about it, if anything else links you to it, you're done, stick a fork in

you. >> now see that would normally worry me. i wasn't there. >> reporter: then, two weeks after letting boney walk, there was something else. something big. >> "early, uh, yesterday morning, i was notified of some uh additional scientific evidence, uh, that linked mr. boney to the, uh, to the homicides." >> reporter: the prosecutor revealed that a palm print found on the exterior passenger side of the bronco doorframe was left there by none other than charles boney. investigators had been aware of the palm print for more than four years but only now did they know whose it was. boney was hauled back into the interrogation room and the questioning became more confrontational. >> you've got some explaining to do here, charles. your palm print is on that bronco. you're there. now this is the time, this is the place. this is your last stage that

you're going to have to tell us what the hell happened there. this is it! >> this can't be happening. >> charles! >> reporter: after hours of denial, boney changed his story. yes, he did know david camm. they met playing pick up basketball. then in another round of questioning, the story changed, and changed again. finally, boney put himself at the crime scene. >> the reason why i was there was to bring him the gun. >> that night? >> that night. >> reporter: boney said david camm asked him to get an untraceable gun. he said that he was a guy caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> as events started to unfold in the investigation, it became apparent that this case was intertwined between two people. >> reporter: now the prosecutor had a new theory. david camm did not act alone. he had a co-conspirator.re each charged with the three killings. david was outraged.

he believed he should have been set free. after all, charles boney's signature was all over the scene. >> he attacks women, defenseless, innocent women. he takes their shoes, their socks. he holds guns to their heads and threatens to shoot them in the head. you know, all of those things from his previous crimes, this is exactly what happened to kim. why can't they see this stuff? you know, they just turn a blind eye to the facts. >> reporter: but the prosecutor had a different set of facts. >> we know that the defense has maintained that this is now the killer, that i should dismiss the charges against david camm, the evidence is not there. >> reporter: in january 2006, charles boney and david camm stood trial separately in two different courthouses. while he wasn't accused of being the shooter, boney was found guilty on three counts of murder in the deaths of kim, brad, and jill cam. he was sentenced to 225 years. and the prosecution team rejected any notion that boney acted alone.

why? those tiny specks of blood. they were on david's shirt, but not on boney's sweatshirt. >> his shirt does not have high velocity blood spatter on it. >> so, a former indiana state trooper is now gonna be a co-conspirator with a felon? >> yeah, makes sense? his story's the only thing you've got that link him to david camm. there's no phone records, no one's ever seen them together. there's no text messages, there's no smoke signals, there's nothing between david camm and charles boney. >> reporter: at david camm's second trial, boney was named as the other man at the scene, also charged with the triple murders. otherwise, the case against him was pretty much the same, absent the female witnesses the appeals court had thrown out. and this time the state focused on the allegation that david molested his 5- year old daughter as a motive for the murders. >> well, the motive was kimberly was leaving david camm and that she was leaving him because of, of the child molesting.

and uh he could not let her leave, he could not let that secret out, that was the secret in the camm household. >> reporter: the defense countered. brought in experts to show there was no solid evidence the little girl had even been molested. >> the state's theory of why david murdered his family was purely made up. it was speculation. >> reporter: david camm had never been charged with sexual molestation but that didn't stop the prosecutor from closing his case with a big dramatic flourish. >> he took his finger and stuck it in dave's face and said, "you molested your child." >> reporter: the jury took four days to reach its verdict. >> "guilty" on all three counts. we can tell you that david camm has now been convicted of the murder of his wife and the murder of his two kids, brad and jill. >> guilty again. >> guilty again. with the same inflammatory evidence. this was just such a heinous accusation. >> reporter: but the saga was far from over. david camm's uncle still refused to retreat. >> so, you go to dave and you say, "we tried." >> yeah, i say, "we're not done, dude."

"you gotta hang in there. "we're not done." >> they certainly weren't done, but the prosecutors weren't done, either. and the placement of the sweatshirt led you to believe it was put there. >> and charles boney was just getting started. i've tried a lot of cases over the years, a lot of death penalty cases, murder cases. i've never tried anything like this. i've never seen anything this complicated. when you shop with wayfair,

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>> reporter: sam lockhart's mission to clear the name of his nephew david continued unabated after camm and charles boney were both convicted of the murders of david's family. >> we've got the killer who killed kim, brad and jill. we finally got that accomplished. now, our next chore, we are still after that. we were still after getting dave camm another trial. >> you're back to the appeals court again? >> right. >> all rise. >> reporter: the indiana supreme court heard the appeal. attorneys stacy uliana and kitty liell stayed on the case. >> these crimes are also connected to. >> reporter: they argued that the evidence that david molested his daughter was pure speculation and should not have been allowed in the trial.

>> there's absolutely no evidence at all that camm was the perpetrator of that, right? >> reporter: in 2009, the upper court agreed. >> "conviction's reversed." two words. that's all i needed. >> reporter: a second victory for the camm team. the conviction was overturned, and the judges ordered a new trial. >> statistically, a successful appeal of a first-degree murder charge is a long shot and yet you got it. >> well, i got it twice. that doesn't happen. doesn't happen. you know, if you don't believe in something bigger then you need to really evaluate your spirituality because you know, man, that was a god thing. >> reporter: the third david camm murder trial underway now in boone county, indiana. >> reporter: in august 2013, more than a dozen years after the murders, david camm faced his third jury. a special prosecutor, stan levco, was appointed to represent the state.

>> here you're going to start the third trial. how did you appraise your case when it became yours? >> when i first got it, it was just overwhelming. i've tried a lot of cases over the years, a lot of death penalty cases, murder cases. i've never tried anything like this. i've never seen anything this complicated. >> reporter: with no philandering husband, no molesting father what remained was the theory of the crime that david left the basketball game, killed his family, then went back to play some more. once again, the prosecutor argued that the scene in the garage was staged to look like a sex crime. >> and her pants have been removed. >> correct. >> reporter: removed after she'd been killed. what's more, the positioning of kim's body, he argued, was not what you'd expect of a person who'd been shot and fallen. >> her feet are under the car about, i think roughly ten, 12 inches under the car. >> her legs were at an angle which seemed unusual. >> unusual how? >> well, they weren't straight. they were at an angle.

you just wouldn't expect 'em to be that way. >> reporter: and the infamous sweatshirt. the one that once belonged to charles boney was also part of the staging the prosecutor argued. >> the placement of the sweatshirt was incriminating. i thought the way it was put there led you to believe that david camm put it there. >> reporter: tucked all too neatly under brad camm's body as though put there on purpose to frame charles boney. remember, no murder weapon was ever found. the heart of the prosecution's case was still that freckling of blood at the bottom of david's shirt. powerful, incriminating evidence. it argued marking david as the shooter. >> the little girl was seat belted on this side as you're looking in. >> reporter: tom bevel, a blood stain pattern analyst, was an expert witness for the prosecution. in a bronco similar to the one owned by the camms, he demonstrated for us where he believes david was wedged inside the car to get those specks of blood on the bottom of his

shirt. >> what's a likely posture for the shooter? >> would've been leaned in somewhat like this in order to get the correct trajectory for her. >> now, i noticed your shooting hand is up pretty high. >> it is. >> is that an awkward shot? >> it's not necessarily awkward, but we have to go with the physical evidence. >> it is what it is. >> and the physical evidence isn't like this. >> reporter: but why so few spots? bevel said it's because most of the blowback hit the inside roof of the vehicle. like much of the other evidence, the blood spatter testimony was essentially the same as in the other two trials. what would be enormously different this time was the star witness. the jury was going to hear from charles boney himself. a huge risk for prosecutor levco. >> so you gotta wonder how good this witness boney is gonna be for you, right? >> yes. certainly his credibility was gonna be in question. >> why put him on the stand then? >> i felt like i didn't have a choice. if i didn't put him on the stand

i suspect they would have but also i thought the jury oughtta hear it. >> reporter: this is the story that boney told in court. he said he met david camm in july 2000 playing basketball in a local park. we talked to boney in prison. >> reporter: it was just a pickup game of basketball and i didn't know him or, really, anyone there. i just -- i'm fresh out of prison, you know, the scene is different. >> reporter: after the game he said camm was bragging, "talking smack" about how easily he'd beaten boney. >> and at that point, i just said, "well, you know, i may have lost the game, but at least i have my freedom." and he's like, "freedom?" i was like, "yeah, i just got out of prison." >> reporter: david boney continued and then told him he used to be a state trooper. >> at the end of that day, did you know him by name? >> no, i didn't know his full name until our second chance meeting. >> reporter: that meeting was in september, boney said, about a week or so before the murders. they ran into each other at a convenience store and got to talking in the parking lot. >> the gist of our conversation was about, "are you employed?" "are you staying out of trouble?" and then, it evolved into,

"well, what types of things did you do to get in prison in the first place?" he was creating his own form of intel. he was learning quite a few things about charles boney. >> reporter: boney told him he'd been inside for robbery. >> and when i slowly started to let him know about some of the thingsthat i did in the past, he asked me, "well, are you still able to get untraceable weapons?" "you know can you get an untraceable weapon?" >> untraceable. >> that's, that's what it led to, i'm just --. >> a clean, clean gun. >> a clean gun. >> throwdown gun. >> somethin' that can't be traced by law enforcement and ballistics. >> reporter: so boney said he scored a handgun the same day, met david again in a parking lot and handed over the weapon. he paid boney $250. but one gun wasn't enough as boney's story goes. >> he wants me to deliver yet a second handgun. and so, i followed mr. camm back to his house, i can see visibly exactly where he lives. >> reporter: as boney tells it, they spoke outside the house for just five minutes. boney asked when he should

return with the second gun. >> i'm asking this man you know, what time, what time should i be back here?" "well, why don't you come back on thursday at approximately 7:00, etcetera?" so i knew what time to be back. >> so meet me here on thursday night in the evening and you'll have some more cash in your pocket? >> absolutely. >> reporter: it was thursday, september 28, the evening of the murders. >> i arrived at mr. camm's house at approximately 7 o'clock. >> reporter: he said he handed over the gun to camm wrapped in his gray sweatshirt. >> where's this happening? >> right outside the garage. so we exchanged pleasantries and my sole purpose is to simply get the $250 for the second weapon. >> reporter: boney says after a few minutes in the bronco, the wife and kids arrived and pulled into the garage. >> and what happens? >> i hear a little bit of commotion. it just sounds like something's not right. it sounds like they're arguing. and then, all of a sudden, i hear an immediate pop.

and before i heard the "pop", i heard her say, "no," and it was -- a commanding, "no," like, "stop," and then, i heard a pop. then i heard the word, "daddy." >> reporter: two more pops followed. >> did you know what that was? >> it sounded like a handgun. >> so, what'd ya think? >> i'm thinkin' that this is a crime scene. >> so do you say, "i've gotta get outta here"? >> i would have liked to had just left, but as he emerged from the garage and pointed the handgun at me, i was frozen. >> oh, so now you're a target? >> absolutely. so he needs to kill charles boney. >> reporter: but the gun jammed. >> at that point, reason says, "i'm outta here." >> well, the thing is once i realize that your gun doesn't have projectiles in it, now my job is to get you. >> you're goin' for him. >> absolutely. >> now, as boney tells it, the scene moved into the garage. >> as i go into the garage, i'm chasing after mr. camm. i heard him say, "you did this." and i took that as, "this is

your crime." >> reporter: as camm went inside the house, boney says he saw the victims. the wife down by the car door. he remembers her being fully clothed. then he says he stumbled. >> i trip over shoes. i remember touching these shoes. i clearly touched something that is now a part of what will be a murder scene. so yeah, i did pick 'em up, i did try to wipe 'em off. >> reporter: kim's shoes. he placed them on top of the bronco. then he looked inside the vehicle and says he saw the two children. mindful of leaving d-n-a and prints he says he touched none of the bodies. then he says he heard david moving inside the house. >> and it clicked into my head, "he's goin' for a weapon." i mean, this guy is a former indiana state trooper. >> reporter: at which point he bolted from the scene. >> had i stayed there any longer, there's no doubt he would have killed me and he would have just lied and said to his buddies at the indiana state police, "i came home and i found this black guy."

>> reporter: after listening to boney testify, the defense was ready to pounce. >> that's his story. and it makes absolutely no sense. but it explains away all the evidence that they had against him, at the time. but what boney didn't account for was the dna that was gonna be found and he has no story for that. new dna evidence. >> he absolutely fought camm. he touched jill. >> did you do that?

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>> reporter: the case against david camm, the defense argued, was as preposterous this time around as it was before.

who could possibly buy the prosecution's overly complicated theory that david left the basketball game to kill his family? >> there is absolutely no way he could have left that gym. you have to believe that he knew when he was going to get to sit out. he timed it perfectly and so it'd be right at the time he was going to meet charles boney and murder his family. it is beyond belief what he would have had to have put in place, in order for this alibi to have worked. >> i mean, this sounds like a "commandos, synchronize your watches" kind of scenario. >> it's absurd. there's absolutely no commonsense way he could have pulled it off. >> reporter: and camm had a solid alibi. eleven men had seen him playing basketball from a little after seven to about nine-twenty that night. there was no one to support any part of the story boney had just told. >> there is not one shred of evidence that puts those two people together. >> reporter: richard kammen was a new face on the defense team. >> and the reason there's nothing there is 'cause it didn't happen.

>> reporter: the defense insisted boney was the sole killer in the garage that night and that back in 2000, investigators ignored evidence pointing to the convicted felon. to make that point, the defense called damon fay, a veteran homicide detective who now trains police in how to conduct murder investigations. >> i don't like testifying against other cops. i'm very uncomfortable with it. >> reporter: fay recited flaw after flaw in the camm investigation. the most significant, he said was the handling of boney's sweatshirt. >> when a homicide detective actually gets some physical evidence that it's got somebody's name on it and dna, you hug it, you love it. it is such a rare event. and they thought of it as an artifact. >> which in non-legal terms means "move on, forget about it." this is nothing. >> well, that's right. it would have changed everything. first of all, within two weeks tops, they would have had boney. >> reporter: and fay pointed out other blunders as well. the heavy reliance on the blood spattered t-shirt. >> that is the physical evidence against david camm. >> of all of the crime scene possibilities, the most misinterpreted is blood spatter.

you don't hang the entire case just on the interpretation of blood splatter. you've gotta have so much more. >> reporter: the theory of a staged sex crime was flat out wrong. >> they really never probed out the fact that it could be a voyeur or somebody with a panty fetish, or somebody who has just sexually excited at the view of a woman's legs. >> reporter: someone, say, who fit the profile of charles boney. >> big problem, because the suspect that they don't know about, and won't know about for about 5-years has complete personality reflected in that crime scene up to the point of how kim was found. >> reporter: and remember a boney palmprint had also been found on the bronco. more evidence, the defense said that he was the killer. >> so here we have a 90's era ford bronco. defense expert eugene liscio, an engineer who reconstructs crime scenes showed us how the palm print would have been left by the shooter. >> it really is just as simple as reaching into the vehicle

like this to make a shot for jill and then for bradley you would lean over a bit more and fire a shot this way. >> i noticed that you braced yourself. >> yeah >> here and this is where crime scene techs find a palm print. >> yes they did, they found a palm print up in this particular area. bu makes perfect sense that if you're leaning in you want to be able stabilize yourself, especially if you're making a shot. >> reporter: and now the defense had fresh scientific evidence that boney actually put his hands on two of the victims. >> boney's story, of course, was "i ran in." "i -- i did this." "i never touched anybody." clearly not true. >> reporter: there is something in the field of d-n-a analysis called "touch d-n-a." lab experts use human cells to make an identifying hit on a suspect. touch d-n-a from boney's skin cells was found on kim camm's sweater, her underwear, and on her daughter, jill's shirt. >> the dna conclusively proves that he absolutely fought with

kim, that he touched jill. >> reporter: and the defense hoped its cross examination of boney would be still more proof. camm had to steel himself to watch boney on the stand. >> you're looking at him. >> right. there was no way for me to actually prepare myself for that. and it was a situation where i really had to think about what was at stake. and doing what was right in that moment. having to sit and there and look at this guy that i knew killed my family and not react. >> reporter: the defense said boney's story was absurd. for starters: why would an ex-cop ask an ex-con for a gun? >> the police officer doesn't think, "well, how can i trust this guy?" "he's a criminal." and the guy who just got out of prison doesn't smell a rat. he doesn't think, "maybe i'm being set up?" it makes absolutely no sense. >> reporter: the defense took on boney's story in cross examination.

we had some of the same questions when we spoke to him. >> how many versions did it take to get to the story you just told, charles? what, three, four, five times, maybe? >> yes. i finally realized that the more i keep lying, i'm just digging myself deeper and deeper." "i'm not gonna get out of it." "and when i did finally start tellin' the truths about things, i didn't feel comfortable revealing too much too soon because i didn't wanna be a part of the case to begin with. so once again i resorted to telling a lot of stories. >> the big picture here, charles, for a lotta people, is that is sounds like a crock. that a felon, just out of the slammer would hook up with a recently retired state police officer and do this gun exchange. it just doesn't seem to make sense. it doesn't pass the sniff test. >> there's a lotta things about this case that don't make sense. >> if i were you i would have alarms goin' off inside my head. here you are, on probation, how do you know that this former cop is really a former cop and he's not setting you with a sting? >> although that did cross my mind and i had concerns about it, there was somethin' about him.

if you've spent any time with mr. camm, he has a way of putting you at ease, he has a way of making you feel like he's legit and everything's okay. and plus i didn't care what the gun was for. >> you've provided this former trooper with weapons, he was on a special weapons team with the indiana state police. >> he was s.w.a.t. >> so theoretically here, this premeditated crime, he's gonna trust a handgun that's come off the street that he hasn't checked out, he's just unwrapped it from the sweatshirt and immediately used it for his business. >> well, it was. it was the gun. those are questions that i can't possibly answer. why did he want me there at the crime scene? we know why, because he wanted me to take the blame for all of this. >> reporter: so as boney tells it, the transaction happens, he delivers the gun, hears the gunfire in the garage, and then david tries to shoot him. >> why don't you just belt right outta there? >> if you point a weapon at me, even on a prison level. if a guy comes at me with a shank, i'm gonna get that shank

from him and then it's my turn; it's that simple. >> i'm just gonna put it out there, i can't get into any trouble, my intent was to kill david camm that day. you tried to kill me and now i'm gonna kill you. but before i had a chance to kill him, i stumbled across this beautiful woman, dead, lifeless on the ground. >> reporter: then, boney said, he stumbled over the woman's shoes, and took the time to place them on top of the bronco. >> but then you're down on the floor, the way you tell it. you've tripped --. >> yeah, i did. i tripped over the shoes. >> and then your emotions are going wild, this guy's tried to kill ya, you're in a crime scene, you're gonna stop, we have to believe that you could say, "oh, shoes, i gotta put these now on top of the vehicle." charles, doesn't make any sense. doesn't make any sense. >> no, no, no, see, here's the thing, i'm wiping the shoes off and i see one little leg or somethin' hanging out the passenger side, i go to investigate to see if there's anyone else in the back of the vehicle. and when i leaned into look, i put the shoes on top.

i don't even remember doing it. >> reporter: doesn't remember doing it and he says doesn't know why. >> i wasn't thinking about why i did that, but i was cognizant and really thinking about the dna or possible fingerprints from having tripped and touched those shoes. >> but you know, that palm print, charles, is just where you would brace yourself to lean across to shoot at that little boy. >> that's according to defense expert witnesses. you gotta understand, the prosecution has that same evidence, they don't see it that way. >> but what i'm saying is, if you're so concerned about tidying up why would you be so clumsy as to leave a big ol' hand print on the vehicle? >> i -- i leaned in to check on the children, what i seen there was horrifying. i'm not worried about that palm print, i didn't even realize i left a palm print. do you think that if i had have known i wouldn't have taken the time to wipe it off? i wanted to just get out of there. >> did you touch any of the victims charles? >> no, i did not. >> reporter: so how does he explain his touch dna on kim and jill camm's clothes? >> i've touched david camm, we've shook hands, and he handled my sweatshirt.

my skin cells are clearly on him. so anything that he touches can be transferred. >> reporter: while the defense couldn't tell the jury about boney's past, the foot fetish and the armed robberies, we knew the record and asked him about it. criminal history, the fetishes, what happened in that garage, it does seem to fit your appetites. >> well -- >> this is this guy's history just played out on a violent scale that he'd never been through before. >> well, first of all, my history does not consist of killing women, shooting people period. i've not ever had anything like that in my past. yes, i've been in possession of handguns. yes, when i was 20 years old, i did some armed robberies for cash. >> charles, lemme put this to ya directly, were you in the garage that night with the gun in your hand, taking control of kim camm? >> no, sir. >> kids started to cry, i told you to shut up, shoot the wife when she comes after you? >> richard kammen's theory is totally wrong, it never happened.

>> in your panic, forget the sweatshirt, forget about trophies of the shoes that maybe you were gonna take later, but for the first time this sex fetish itch that you have has gotten totally out of control and you've massacred a family. did you do that? charles boney, did you kill that family? >> no, sir. in fact, that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard, a guy with a foot fetish kills an entire family just to satisfy his foot fetish in a place where he's never been before? it never happened. >> what are you hoping the jury hears today? >> i have no comment, sir. >> reporter: with boney as the wild card, david camm's third trial came to an end after nine weeks. >> it's over. right now, just waiting for the verdict. would the jury believe the tale they'd heard? the felon duped into a crime scene by the ex cop? for the third time in thirteen-years, his fate was in their hands. >> i was scared to death.

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>> reporter: the jury in david camm's third trial had the case. for two families, there was nothing to do but wait. the renns, kim's parents, wanted nothing more than to hear the word guilty again. the new evidence had not changed their minds. you believe david killed your daughter and the kids? >> yes. that will never change. >> why isn't boney's presence enough to explain everything that happened in that garage? >> it just didn't. there's just too many other things. >> there's too many stories been told on both sides and, you know, i don't believe neither one of them are telling the truth. >> we have gotten word that a verdict has been reached. >> reporter: the jury took ten hours to reach a verdict.

>> i said, "well, it has to be guilty." i mean, i wasn't expecting anything but guilty. >> reporter: prosecutor stan levco's glass was half-full or better. >> i thought we had a decent chance. i thought it could go either way. but i thought the trial went really well. >> reporter: but kim's mom was worried. >> i was scared because ten-week trial and you're only out ten hours. and i had a really bad feeling from the beginning that it was going to be not guilty. >> reporter: david, in a holding cell, got ready, shaking violently. >> i literally could not fix, button my shirt or fix my tie and my collar and so on. the deputies had to help me. >> reporter: his family, the lockharts, were heartened by a relatively fast deliberation. >> everybody kind of had that same feeling of this. might be good. but none of us had the nerve to utter it. you know it. you know becuase you don't want to say that. because the hurt. the pain when they say guilty is so devastating.

julie was breathless, waiting for just one tiny word. >> i'd been kind of trying to practice in my head, what will it sound like to hear the word "not"? not. you know, we had always heard guilty. so i'd kind of just fantasized about hearing that word. >> reporter: and that's exactly what she, and everybody else in the courtroom, heard that day. the word "not." as in "not guilty." once, twice, three times. >> you hear the first one and then you hear the second one and you're praying to god you hear the third one. and that's when i lost it, you know. knowing finally. finally the truth has prevailed. justice for kim and brad and jill, for me, for my family. and i just fell to pieces. >> reporter: not guilty. not guilty. >> reporter: thirteen years. >> times three. yes, sir. thirteen years. thirteen years of hell.

>> everybody around me, i looked, was crying. dave was bawling. i just sat there. i think i was finally, "sam, we've got this thing done. finally." >> reporter: for the other side, the verdict was a devastating blow. >> when they said "not guilty," that kind of like, ripped my heart out right there. i mean, like, this can't -- this can't be right. what did these jurors see that the other 24 jurors in the past didn't see? you know, he was convicted twice by 24 different people and these 12 people seen something that they didn't see? >> david, can you tell me how you're feeling right now? >> reporter: outside, the cameras were waiting. >> this is complete vindication after 13 horrific years. >> this is a miracle. my situation is a miracle that we are here, conducting this interview right now.

it, god literally had to move a mountain to make this happen. >> reporter: but that mountain would never have moved without dedicated attorneys. and uncle sam lockhart. >> there had been a lot of people saying the only reason i'm doing this is because dave's my nephew. well, that's a big reason. absolutely. but i know he's innocent. he didn't do it. and the only thing i knew to do then was to continue to fight until we reached the solution that was proper. >> reporter: finally, the david camm case, a case that had dominated the news in southern indiana for years, was over. >> reporter: your name will be clean again. but, you know, there are still going to be people that are going to point at you and whisper and say, "that's the guy that got away with killing his family." >> you know what? i can't help those -- those people. if they choose to be ignorant, that's on them. i've had 13 years of my life taken away from me. and it's their problem if they choose to be ignorant. and it is a choice. >> reporter: for those who knew and loved kim, brad, and jill,

there remains a yearning to know what might have been. for the wife and mother. for the two young children. >> no telling what kim might have been. where she could have been. what the kids have been doing. we lost all that. dave lost all that. >> reporter: david camm says he'll never get over the pain of what happened in the garage that night. >> the pain becomes a part of you. and you live with it. and it's an element of who i am, you know? and, you know, how i live my life. >> reporter: on the day of the verdict, as a security precaution, sheriff's deputies drove david to a pre-arranged truck stop and turned him over to his waiting uncle sam. >> that was the moment he was really free, wasn't it? >> think so. i think it finally hit him and it hit me. like, this guy is no longer in shackles. this guy is with me. he is now ready to go start his life. >> it's me and one man, leaving

together, heading home.

96 kpke with the bird and the bee. >> i had a huge crush on him. he had this amazing voice. >> very gregarious, very charismatic. i think the passion he had for people came through. >> reporter: he was the guy the whole town woke up to, morning dj steven b. >> he was so funny and he had such a great love of music. >> he's loveable. i mean, everybody loves steven b. >> reporter: but soon it was fatally clear that not everybody did. >> they came upon a body floating in the water. >> shot him one time in the back of the head. >> i felt like i was in some made-for-tv movie. it's like "this can't be