place to be, but you have been on death row, and there were not a lot of employers who would take that on, and the army had to take him back, so he stayed in. after readjusting to army life, tim hennis built a successful 25-year career in the military. tim hennis served in somalia and desert storm honorably, and tim s supervising colonel told me that he was without a doubt the best nco that he had ever worked with. he retired in 2004 and he and angela had a son who they would not have had if he had not gotten his life back together. but tim had no idea that the eastburn case was about to be breaking wide open. in 2006, a rape kit yielded new results. and the prosecutor called gary eastburn and said that there was a hit on the dna. and he said, who? and they said hennis.
in 2010, timothy hennis went on trial for the third time for the murders of katy eastburn and her daughters. but a scandal rocked the state lab that identified hennis dna, the lab had been skewing results to help prosecutors. the woman who handled the sample in the 80s got in trouble for mixing up some dna samples in another case, and almost put an innocent guy in prison. they didn t do a good job of preserving the evidence and three people had been arrested for evidence tampering. hennis lawyers asked for a postponement to investigate the lab, but the judge refused. meanwhile, the military prosecutors found a second smear from the rape kit and sent it to a new lab and the results also pointed to hennis. the medical examiner slide came back on every marker to the
the army paperworks everything, paperwork for paperwork. we looked for that and looked for that, and there was a checkout sheet for everything but that day. so the prosecutor had a field day. but before the second trial, richardson discovered why the paperwork went missing. the reason why is because the prosecutors had it. they didn t take a copy and leave it, they just took it. so this piece of evidence that would have exonerated him in 1986 was kept in the prosecutor s custody all of that time. and richardson also uncovered information that would undermine eyewitness pat cone. pat cone had helped them out in between trials and he was arrested using a stolen bank card. on another occasion, he was arrested for drinking, and being disruptive, and the state dropped the case. and he is known for telling people that the state couldn t touch him, because he was a prime witness. and pat is not a strong-willed person, and nice guy, and don t understand me, but he got into troubl
successful 25-year career in the military. tim hennis served in somalia and desert storm honorably, and tim s supervising colonel told me that he was without a doubt the best nco that he had ever worked with. he retired in 2004 and he and angela had a son who they would not have had if he had not gotten his life back together. but tim had no idea that the eastburn case was about to be breaking wide open. a 21-year-old rape kit yielded new results. and the prosecutor called gary eastburn and said that there was a hit on the dna. and he said, who? and they said hennis. you could have knocked me over with a feather. just hit with a wave of emotion. god, i don t believe it.
there and tried to have sex with her, and when she refused you snapped and killed her. and they were trying to provoke him on the stand and he had to calmly say, i did not, i did not. and he said, i never had sex with that woman. that never happened. and when it was over, they did not get the reaction they wanted, and it was a different light that the jury had seen, and it made a huge difference. in the first trial, the absence of blood on the jacket made a difference in the first trial insisting that dry cleaner had removed the blood stains. but richardson saw it differently. and the dry cleaner said that you have to use a special chemical to remove blood. i said, did you use it in this case, and he said, no. and so when they challenged it, richardson was ready with his own expert. this chemist got some blood