it s not tim hennis. there s a pubic hair right where the rape took place. what is male dna doing underneath eastburn s finger nails and it s not tim s. the prosecution and the defense agreed on that. nothing else came back to timothy hennis. underneath the finger nails, that s not timothy hennis , but what is, that vaginal swab. to me, male dna evidence under the finger nail of a woman who is raped is pretty damning evidence. who is it? the finger nail scrapings weren t enough for a full dna profile. so the defense asked to test all the evidence that might point to a different perpetrator, including a blood-soaked towel. now whoever had sex with her didn t necessarily kill her. but you can t argue that someone who cleaned up the blood didn t have something to do with it. let s find out what happened. in the military, if you need
built a screen that took up the whole wall and they took slides of kara and erin eastburn, 5 and 3-year-old girls on an autopsy table, displayed out, no clothes. tim was sitting there going, quha what do i do? if he acts like it s note bothering him, he looks like a cold-blooded killer. and if he gets emotionally upset, he looks like he s expressing guilt. what can he do? this went on for two days. slide after slide after slide. felt like i was in a slam dunk competition with michael jordan. prosecutor william vanstory also told the jury that hennis motive had been sex. tim hennis wife was out of town, had a new baby, so he decided to make a pass at the married mother of three from whom he d gotten the dog, and that didn t go well. hennis thinks he s a player, so mrs. eastburn said, no, he read this wrong, i m just a friendly person. with that temper of his, he lost it.
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children. their next task would be to decide whether hennis deserved the death penalty. when you have a man that for 25 years after this occurred did nothing but raise his family, serve in two wars, honorably discharged, and still married to the same woman, why are you just going to look and say that s the monster? he prays at church, gives cookies to kids. doesn t make any difference. we re not there to say how could he do it, we re not there to say why did he do it, we re there to say, he did it. the prosecution ended their presentation with another slide show. gary eastburn counted out the birthdays he s missed with his daughters, anniversaries, baptism. one of my trial partners
billy richardson showed the lack of physical evidence to the jury, but prosecutors argued the absence of blood on hennis members only jacket was evidence of his guilt. they kept saying there was no blood because he took his jacket to the dry cleaners. the jacket was a damning piece of evidence. richardson also undercut eyewitness pat cone who id d hennis leaving the home. richardson videotaped pat cohen during a tour of the crime scene. when you start listening to his story he s all over the place. bought my girlfriend some roses. you bought her some rose on sunday? no it wasn t roses. it was candy. not roses. we started asking are you sure about this? he said, now i m out here looking at it, you re right, i probably couldn t see all this. no, no, no, no, no, i can t say that. on the witness stand cone