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dave was trying his best to get back in. i wouldn t let him go back in. so you really are the officer, securing the scene? i was trying to, i knew it had to be done, cause i knew we had a crime scene and i wanted to make sure that i didn t do anything to hamper it. reporter: david camm says he was way beyond understanding anything that night, but the questions wouldn t stop. all these things spinning around inside my head. is this real? am i really here? did i really just find kim, brad, and jill, as they are? you know it was just uh, it was surreal. reporter: that night was the end of everything david and kim had built together. they d met in the late 1980 s. they were introduced by marcy mcleod. marcy had been best friends with kim ever since ninth grade. she was very quiet, for the people that didn t know her, and
had recognized the sweatshirt as prison issue. in the collar of the sweatshirt is the word, backbone. and i m thinking, okay. that s a nickname. tests on that sweatshirt revealed dna from various people, including an unknown male. but the prosecutor said there was no match when that male dna was run through the national database. still it seemed to be a breakthrough for team david. proof that someone else was in the garage that night. we knew that that was probably the key to solving this. now, we didn t know that person by name. by god, we knew them by dna profile. finally, it was up to the jurors. as reporters lingered in the hallway, the jury deliberated for three days. guilty. guilty. david camm was found guilty of killing his wife and children. frank, the jury comes back and guilty as charged. yeah, that s what we wanted. and now we felt like, you know, kim, brad and jill, they can be at rest now.
david camm s hand that night was this barely visible, microscopic droplets of his daughter s blood on the lower left hem of camm s t-shirt. how those drops of blood got there was the crux of the case. blowback. this is what happens when you shoot somebody at close range? yes. you get that blood on your shirt? correct. if he got high velocity impact spatter on his t-shirt, then he has to be within four-feet of the child at the time that the child was killed. reporter: the prosecution believed david camm shot from inside the car, targeting jill in the back seat. that s how her blood sprayed on his shirt. but why? why would david camm kill his family? the reason for those killings, the prosecutor declared was that david camm was a philandering husband. it probably was one of the first times that i really ever heard kim cry. reporter: remember kim s old friend marcy mcleod?
reporter: david yelled at him to check on jill, his daughter, in the bronco and nelson says he made his way carefully to the vehicle. like david, he was a former state trooper and knew that crime scenes had to be preserved. i, i looked in the back seat and that s when i saw little jill back there. i reached back and i touched her arm or shoulders, something and i said, jilly jilly jilly. you knew she was gone? i knew she was gone. and i said, dave, i i think they re all gone, buddy. i think they re all gone. reporter: david lost it. he actually went down to the ground, was layin on his back and rollin around and sayin , why? why d i have to go? why d i have to go? why not have stayed with em? reporter: uncle nelson managed to get david away from the garage.