i assume you ve done this before? yes, judge. this will how it would be drawn back to begin with? that s correct. if i can ask you to tell me bear with me just a moment. judge, i m going to try one more time and i m not going to take up anymore of the court s time. the demonstration was an embarrassing bust. judge, thank you for the court s indulgence. i won t take up anymore time. the defense had one blockbuster witness left. i ll ask permission to call my client, kenneth creamer, please. ken creamer would tell the story himself. here he showed the jury what happened that sunday morning in his garage. then just not to be an ark or anything, but how did you manipulate the bag. just like that? you can have a seat, sir. once you did that, then what happened? i heard a a poof sound.
he said, mr. randy, the crossbow. and ken came to the door, and i would say melting down, just very upset. just saying, i need help, i need help. ken creamer led his neighbor through the house and into the two-car garage. and there s anna laying at the end of the treadmill with her hands up under her head with an arrow stuck straight in her back. dead. had to be. but only just, said howes. the body was still pink. kind of like, whoa. but now what happened next would be central. the military man, his eyes, his memory, this is what he says he saw. the first thing i did was scan the garage for the crossbow. i looked real quick and it was sitting on the box on top of this blue wrapping paper on the far side of the refrigerator. funny, the things that become so terribly important later on. on top of a box on blue wrapping
creamer, horrible, unbelievable but true. creamer told the cop he didn t even know the crossbow was still in the house, didn t know it was in the bag he tossed across the garage, didn t know it was loaded, with a hunting arrow, no less. maybe she loaded it, he says. why would she load it? i don t know. i don t know. sometimes she does she my wife does whatever she wants to do. you can tell her not to do something, and she ll do it? really? even after she d already been injured in that earlier crossbow incident, asked the interrogator? i didn t touch it. i didn t say you did. kenny, i didn t say you did. and only then it seemed to dawn on ken creamer that the man in the room did not believe him. we ve been married 13 years. never had one. never had a fight? never had a fight. never had one. my wife did whatever she wants. i m asking you for the investigation, ken. i didn t
test. well, may be. 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 is that mr. mason, in fact, cannot say that this couldn t have been an accidental discharge. besides, there was lots of evidence of innocence, said the defense. would a guilty man sound this distraught on a 911 call? i need an ambulance right now. 3089 polk drive. 3089 polk drive. please hurry. what has happened? sir, don t hang up with me! what s happened? sir! sir? ken creamer would never kill his wife, said the defense. he adored the woman. and a parade of friends came to the witness stand to confirm it. music teacher. they seemed to get along well. the boy s fifth grade teacher. got along great, great hostesses.
found no reason why it would fire without a pull of the trigger. in other words, the arrow that went through anna creamer must have been fired on purpose. i saw anna laying there facedown with an arrow square in her back. but the true star of the case against ken creamer was the next-door neighbor. that retired naval commander, randall howes. ken is kind of just babbling, making noise or whatever and saying, we need help, we need help now. remember, howes told us he saw something in the garage that jumped out at him much later. a detail about to assume a huge importance. as howes stood there near anna s body, he testified, he was scanning the room looking for that crossbow. on the far side of the refrigerator there was a cardboard box, and sitting on top of the cardboard box was the crossbow. i could see the front of it. mr. howes, i d like you to take a very careful look at that picture. you see a blue paper bag in front of the refrigerator in that picture, sir? yes, i