army to do it for you. but the judge denied the request to test other items. i cannot imagine a judge in a civilian court not allowing that. you have the evidence, why not test it. without dna results pointing to a different suspect, hennis lawyers decided to the offer an alternate explanation to the sperm. in the end they threw out the theory that tim hennis had consensual sex with mrs. eastburn. and when he said that, you could feel the love leaving the room. everybody went, i don t believe he is saying that. there are certain things that you can do in front of the jury, and certain things that you can t. it is not how i would have done it. the 14-person court-martial jury declared unanimously that timothy hennis was guilty of murdering katy eastburn and her children. and the next task would be to
and then days immediately afterwards the news got worse for tim hennis, and he had no alibi and angela hennis was out of town, and in the middle of the night he drug a barrel out to burn stuff. something that his neighbors had never seen him do before. i don t know what it was, but something that he burned. the lady who owns the cleaners and he said that man that you all arrested brought that black members only jacket into my cleaners friday, and didn t look suspicious to me. the bank card of katy eastburn had been used twice. and there was a lot of physical evidence that was being tested and if any physical evidence came back to tim, he was dead. so we wanted him to come in ahead of time to get him to
i remember with my children how good he was. of the fingerprints, blood, semen found at the crime scene none of it linked to hennis. down here, we didn t have the equipment and the facilities that they have up north. we had no dna down here when this crime occurred. i would have liked to have had a fingerprint. he left a shoe or something that he dropped to tie him to it, but i thought that we had enough to justify the case in the trial. the trial began on may 27th, 1986. everybody wanted in that courtroom. the bailiffs a couple of times had to break up fistfights. the prosecutors called it the show. they wanted to emphasize how gruesome the murder was, so they built a screen that took up the whole wall, and they took the slides of katy and jana eastburn
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i thought tim was guilty as all get out. i didn t particularly care for tim, but the law school i went to stressed the importance of taking unpopular cases. in the days immediately afterwards the news got worse for tim hennis. he had no alibi. angela hennis was out of town all weekend. on saturday morning he dragged a barrel out in the middle of the backyard and started burning stuff. something his neighbors had never seen him do before. i don t know what it was but it was something he burned. the lady who owns the cleaners, called us and said, that man that you all have arrested brought a black members only jacket into my cleaners friday. look suspicious to you. katie eastburn s stolen bank card, used twice, on the friday night and saturday morning, $150 each time. found hennis was late on rent to the tune of $300 which he paid on monday. we really thought he was guilty.