the chemist got a members only jacket. put some blood on it and took the jacket to a dry-cleaner and ran a luminol test on the jacket and it glowed as bright as can be, still there. hennis members only jacket on the other hand had no signs of blood. richardson had turned the prosecution s evidence against them. richardson was also prepared for lucille cook who swore she saw hennis at an atm two days after the murder. lucille cook had made dozens and dozens of atm transactions around the time of this one. they asked her, could she remember any of those? of course she could not. bank logs also showed a 3 1/2 minute gap between the victim s card being used and lucille cook s transaction. that doesn t seem like a lot of time until you sit there and time it. we had the jury sit there to see how long it was.
cast aside any doubts. cone said these lawyers have been tricking me, they ve been pressuring me. i know i picked out the right guy. finally prosecutors presented a surprise witness, a woman who said that two days after the murder, she had seen the killer using katie eastburn s stolen bank card. all of a sudden the state introduced lucille cook, little old lady. used a card on saturday morning after the killer did. she had told us she couldn t remember. she said, i didn t tell you the truth the first time. there was a big tall white man, mustache, blond headed guy and he knot in got in the tiny white car. that was the man that used the card right before i did. pointed to tim hennis. the jury is sitting there looking at her. after she testified, i went into the bathroom and just threw up. the jury deliberated for three days. it was a quarter of 5:00 on a friday afternoon and the jury knocked. he was guilty on three counts.