you could have knocked me over with a feather. just hit with a wave of emotion. god, i don t believe it. i was so happy. i mean, i was walking on cloud nine. defense lawyer billy richardson was driving through mississippi when he heard the news. i said stop the car. it was just like somebody had taken a 2x4 and hit me upside of the head with it. i was convinced that if anybody could ever run an actual dna on that sample, they would find someone other than tim hennis, and i believed it with every fiber of my being. but the shocking dna results led to a pragmatic question. what do you do now? timothy hennis had been
enlisted person killing an officer s wife. how do you let that go? two years after he retired, timothy hennis was recalled to active duty. as soon as he arrived to fort bragg, he was charged with three counts of murder. tim hennis is the only person in united states history who has been tried and retried for murder three times. it is well settled law, because nothing that the state does can affect what the military does. they can claim it is a different jurisdiction, but it is the state of north carolina using the army to get to what they wanted to do, plain and simple. but billy richardson now on the sidelines, the court-martial of timothy hennis commenced on march 17th, 2010. the prosecutor s case hinged on
him guilty, to not. and then after three hours the jury announced the verdict, not guilty on all counts. we just broke down and started crying, because i knew what they had been through. and next to marrying my wife and the birth of my children, that is probably the happiest day of my life. knowing what they had been through, it is a tremendous, tremendous load off of my shoulders. the jurors came out, and they were adamant that they needed to reinvestigate the case, and quit picking on the guy. why were they bothering this poor man and has he not suffered enough? talking about hennis, and hasn t he suffered enough? he had killed two children and a woman. and how much will he suffer for
in 2010, timothy hennis went on trial for a third time for the murders of katie east burn and her daughters. but a scandal rocked the state lab that identified hennis dna. the lab had been skewing results to help prosecutors. the woman who handled the sample back in the 80s got in trouble for mixing up some dna samples in another case and almost put an innocent guy in prison. they didn t do a good job of preserving the evidence. three people had been arrested for evidence tampering. hennis lawyers asked for a postponement to investigate the lab. the judge refused. meanwhile, military prosecutors found a second smear from the rain k rape kit. they sent it to a lab and the
that cone had lied about seeing hennis, until a new piece of evidence was found. literally lying on the sidewalk. it takes a lot of work to run this business. but i really love it. i m on the move all day long. and sometimes, i don t eat the way i should. so, i drink boost to get the nutrition i m missing.