results pointed to hennis. the evidence came back to every marker of the defendant tested by army crime lab. you had two chains of custody. the defense could not attack the slide. for prosecutors, the dna results swept away all previous doubts. they went back and replayed the first two trials, some of the old discredited inferences. patrick cone, seeing timothy hughes coming down the driveway, hennis took a members only jacket to the dry cleaners, using the atm card. you had numerous pieces of evidence that tied him to this crime. for hennis defenders, the prosecution s case had serious flaws and their top priority was getting their own evidence in front of the jury. there is a ton of physical evidence in the house that they still can t explain. they found a head hair in ms. east burn s bed. it s not tim hennis. there is a pubic hair where the
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army to do it for you. but the judge denied the request to test other items. i cannot imagine a judge in a civilian court not allowing that. you have the evidence, why not test it. without dna results pointing to a different suspect, hennis lawyers decided to the offer an alternate explanation to the sperm. in the end they threw out the theory that tim hennis had consensual sex with mrs. eastburn. within a day or so of the homicides. and when he said that, you could feel the love leaving the room. everybody went, i don t believe he is saying that. there are certain things that you can do in front of the jury, and certain things that you can t. it is not how i would have done it. the 14-person court-martial jury declared unanimously that timothy hennis was guilty of murdering katy eastburn and her children. and the next task would be to decide if hennis deserved the death penalty.
sobbing in the courtroom. he had never heard that before. when that jury said that he is guilty, you still had faith that he was telling the truth? always. never once. not a doubt in your mind? no, never. that time i felt like i did, because i felt that we got our man, and this is the one case that truly screamed out for the death penalty. tim hennis had spent his entire career serving the military, and now he was serving time on death row. but not long after his arrival hennis received a mysterious letter. it said, mr. hennis, i did the crime, and you are doing the time. mr. x. the letter provided no concrete leads only adding to hennis torment.