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
clearly not true. there is something in the field of dna analysis called touch dna. # lab experts use human cells to make an identifying hit on a suspect. touch dna from boney s skin cells was found on kim camm s sweater, her underwear, and on her daughter, jill s, shirt. the dna conclusively proves that he absolutely fought with kim, that he touched jill. and the defense hoped its cross examination of boney would be still more proof. camm had to steel himself to watch boney on the stand. you re looking at him. right. there was no way for me to actually prepare myself for that. and it was a situation where i really had to think about what was at stake. and doing what was right in that moment. having to sit and there and look at this guy that i knew killed my family and not react.
brought in experts to show there was no solid evidence the little girl had even been molested. the state s theory of why david murdered his family was purely made up. it was speculation. david camm had never been charged with sexual molestation but that didn t stop the prosecutor from closing his case with a big dramatic flourish. he took his finger and stuck it in dave s face and said, you molested your child. the jury took four days to reach its verdict. guilty on all three counts. we can tell you that david camm has now been convicted of the murder of his wife and the murder of his two kids, brad and jill. guilty again. guilty again. with the same inflammatory evidence. this was just such a heinous accusation. but the saga was far from over. david camm s uncle still refused to retreat. so, you go to dave and you say, we tried. yeah, i say, we re not done, dude. you gotta hang in there. we re not done.
defenseless, innocent women. he takes their shoes, their socks. he holds guns to their heads and threatens to shoot them in the head. you know, all of those things from his previous crimes, this is exactly what happened to kim. why can t they see this stuff? you know, they just turn a blind eye to the facts. but the prosecutor had a different set of facts. we know that the defense has maintained that this is now the killer, that i should dismiss the charges against david camm, the evidence is not there. in january 2006, charles boney and david camm stood trial separately in two different courthouses. while he wasn t accused of being the shooter, boney was found guilty on three counts of murder in the deaths of kim, brad, and jill cam. he was sentenced to 225 years. and the prosecution team rejected any notion that boney acted alone. why? those tiny specks of blood. they were on david s shirt, but not on boney s sweatshirt.
post-holiday travel headaches. now back to nightline. welcome back. at his second trial, david kam 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 david s 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. so 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. we ve got the killer who killed kim, brad 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.