offering an alibi and an alternate suspect. so, who was this new mystery person? here again is dennis murphy. reporter: the trial of david camm was underway in floyd county indiana. it was the winter of 2002. nervous to see that those men and women that will decide your fate? david camm, accused of murdering his wife and two young children, always insisted the case against him was built on quicksand. it s about them crafting and molding a belief that was totally founded on things that weren t factual. and it was just a complete fiction. reporter: david s defense attorney was mike mcdaniel, now deceased. he told us he knew david as a trooper. what impressions did you have of david before he became a client? uh, i figured he was another redneck state cop. we d done a couple of cases together. him on one side, me on the other. reporter: but mcdaniel became convinced of david s innocence
lockhart, a successful local businessman, quickly became his nephew s most passionate advocate. sam had the grit to make his voice heard. why did you take on the responsibility to take it as far as you could? i didn t have any other options. i know he s innocent. i know he lost his family. and i know he s lost his freedom. and what am i gonna do? he didn t lose me. reporter: the focus was so concentrated on david. did you ever think, well, maybe i don t have the picture here. maybe something awful happened and david snapped and did indeed kill his family. well, i never did think dave killed his family. never. never thought it. never did. kim s parents janice and frank morning the loss of their daughter and grandchildren were absorbing the awful facts the police told them. that their son-in-law was the killer. janice, they made an arrest. uh-huh. it s david. i was just out of it. then when it finally did sink in, i was back and forth. frank, how about you?
they certainly weren t done, but the prosecutors weren t done, either. coming up the placement of the sweatshirt led you to believe that david camm put it there. and charles boney was just getting started. he wants me to deliver a second hand gun. i ve tried a lot of cases. i ve never tried anything like this. when mystery on lockhart road continues. applebee s new sizzlin entrées. now starting at $9.99. now that s eatin good in the neighborhood.
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
east this weekend. more news later. welcome back. at his second trial, david camm was once again found guilty of murdering his wife and two children. separately, charles boney was also handed a guilty verdict and sentenced to 225 years in prison as the co-conspirator. but both cases were far from over and soon the two convicted men would be in court once again. this time face to face. 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. now we ve got the killer who killed kim, grad, 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.