and semen found at the crime scene, none of it linked to hennis. down here, we didn t have the equipment and the facilities they have up north. we had no dna down here when this crime occurred. i would like to have had a fingerprint. left a shoe or something we could tie him to it. but i thought we had enough to justify the case and the trial. the trial egan on may 27th, 1986. everybody wanted in that courtroom. the bailiffs a couple of times had to break up fist fights. the prosecutors called it the show. they wanted to emphasize how gruesome the murder was. so they built a screen that took up the whole wall and they took slides of cara and erin eastburn on an autopsy table, displayed out with no clothes. tim is sitting there going, what do i do if he acts like it
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.
decapitated. and on the right-hand side facing the bed was the mother. the bra was up around her neck. her panties had been cut off her. she had 14 stab wounds. the victims were katie eastburn, age 32, kara, age 5, and erin, age 3. for so long after that homicide i could close my eyes at night and i could see those children. katie eastburn s husband gary was an air force captain. he rushed back from training in alabama. it s hard to explain. you just you stop. the world stops. you look in his eyes, there was a void there. tears your heart out. but you have to gather yourself because you have a job to do. we re going to find out who did this.