was living under terror with great threat upon her. so he planned it? yeah. yes. he wanted to kill her. i think he wanted to kill her in october. remain seated. and so the jury returned to the crowded courtroom and told the judge they were ready. in the case of the commonwealth of virginia versus kenneth frank creamer, we the jury find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree. guilty. creamer twitched a little, looked down. they didn t believe him. he looked like a beaten dog. and among his few remaining friends, perhaps only these, the katzes, grieved for ken creamer. they had him guilty before anything was done. the papers, the news. i mean, they just everybody portrayed him as a criminal, but he you need a motive to kill somebody, i think. he didn t have one as far as i could see.
it, conspired about it, set it up, did the whole thing yourself thinking you were going to get away with it and walk away with $1 million in cash at the same time. not true, not true. it s not true. what is true said ken creamer, is that he and his wife had a wonderful relationship, loved each other, never fought in the way the neighbor, the one anna didn t like, randall house, described. fighting in the house, anna running out of the house? never, never, never happened. every family fights. my wife never stormed out of the house, never, no. as for the crossbow, he insisted he didn t know it was loaded. i never loaded it. you are saying she did. most probably yes. why would she do that? i don t know. i am just trying to get through my head why would
founder, steve jobs. i m veronica della cruz. let s get you back to our program. again, because it sounds bad doesn t mean it is bad. it s a classic situation of kind of lightning striking twice. ken creamer s defense attorney had a problem. the story was just so improbable. a man shoots the love of his life with a crossbow twice and claims each time it was nothing more than a freak accident. true, it s up to the state to prove guilt, but as everybody knows, lightning hardly ever strikes twice. could any defense pass the laugh test? well, maybe. for one thing, said the defense, it would demonstrate in court that the firearm s expert was wrong, that the creamer s weapon could fire by accident. and i think what you ll see
as for that friend, sue cotton, who testified earlier that she d lectured ken about getting rid of the crossbow did you tell her, i don t want to just throw it away or something like that. there was never a conversation with her. she just flat-out lied to everybody here. in fact, said creamer, he thought his wife had already given the crossbow away. but surely the neighbor, a man with an impeccable reputation, was telling the truth when he said he saw evidence that creamer staged the crime scene to make it look like an accident. no, said creamer, that was not the truth. the neighbor must have been seeing things. did you move the crossbow at all in any way after anna was struck? i never touched it. the case is now totally in your hands. so now the question would be handed to the jury. the memories were conflicting, but the facts were like lightning striking twice. had ken creamer persuaded the
yelling. when you don t know a couple really well or you are not inside their home with them all the time, it is hard to explain. i had just come home from work. i was standing out front getting the mail out of the mailbox. anna pulled in. i happened to notice i heard the car pull in next door. she was i guess coming home too. got out and came into the house. she no more than got in there and there was some yelling, not screaming, just yelling back and forth. i could tell it was her and ken. then, after, i don t know, a few seconds of yelling or whatever, something broke. it sounded like something hit the wall. you see these movies where somebody throws a vase or whatever. then, she came kind of walking very fast, very agitated, got in her car, started it up and started to back out. and her son burst out the door and said, mommy, don t go, don t go. you don t have to go. still, everybody has fights sometimes. so it hardly seemed likely that this neighbor and what he saw were abou