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.
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.
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.
didn t mean a thing. i d never heard the name before. uh, it was a complete shock to me. 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. 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. 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,
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, one that had dominated the news in southern indiana for years, was over. 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