this chemist got some blood and put it on a members only jacket, and then put some luminol on it, and it e glowed right there. but hennis on the other hand had no sign of blood. so richardson had turned the prosecution s evidence against them. and then lucille cook who swore she saw hennis at the atm. two days after the murder. lucille cook had made dozens and dozens of transactions around the time of the murder, and asked her if she could remember those, and of course, she could not. there was a gap of time between her transaction and the transaction used allegedly by tim hennis. it was 3 1/2 minutes. well, it does not seem like a lot, until you sit there and time it. we had the jury sit there and time it to see how long it was.
is looking upset, then he expresses guilt. what can he do? this went on two day, slide after slide after slide. i felt like i was in a slam dunk competition with michael jordan. prosecutor william van story also told the jury that hennis motive was sex. his wife was out of town, and so his wife had just had a baby, and so he decided to make a pass at the the mother of the dog. and he said, no, i am a friendly person, and with that temper of his, he lost it. billy richardson emphasized the lack of physical evidence to the jury, but prosecutors argued that the absence of blood on hennis members only jacket was evidence of guilt. they kept saying that there was no blood because he took the jacket to the dry cleaners. the jacket was a damning piece of evidence. and richardson also undercut
but the law school i went to stressed the importance of taking unpopular cases. and then days immediately afterwards the news got worse for tim hennis, and he had no alibi and angela hennis was out of town, and in the middle of the night he drug a barrel out to burn stuff. something that his neighbors had never seen him do before. i don t know what it was, but something that he burned. the lady who owns the cleaners and he said that man that you all arrested brought that black members only jacket into my cleaners friday, and didn t look suspicious to me. the bank card of katy eastburn had been used twice. and there was a lot of physical evidence that was being tested and if any physical evidence came back to tim, he
themselves, and within 22 days, they said, give them another trial. it broke all of our hearts, because we had to call gary and say, you have to go through it one more time. billy richardson reinvestigated every aspect of the case. we were so much better prepared for the second trial. when i started digging, we found how many things that we didn t know at the first trial. richardson began with hennis alibi for the night after the murder when somebody used katy eastburn s bank card. tim hennis had 24-hour duty at fort bragg with his unit. he could not leave. the people in his division remember him gluing shingles on a dollhouse for the infant daughter. but army paperwork that would have confirmed it, went missing. the army paperworks everything, paperwork for paperwork. we looked for that and looked for that, and there was a checkout sheet for everything
fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. before he adopted the eastburn s dog in 1985, sergeant tim hennis had a steady job in the military and growing daughter he was devoted to. and then hennis was arrested for the brutal murder of katy eastburn and her two little girls, aged 5 and 3. hennis lawyer had come to believe in his innocence. i was totally convinced watching him interact with angela, because they do have a good marriage and watching him with his daughter, tim is extremely good with children. i remember with my children how good he was. of the fingerprints, blood, semen found at the crime scene none of it linked to hennis. down here, we didn t have the equipment and the facilities