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And put it on a members only jacket, and then put some luminol on it, and it 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. and there was a three 1/2 hour gap between her transaction and the transaction allegedly used by tim hennis. 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. it was the longest 3 1/2 minutes. why would the killer wait 3 1/2 minutes until someone sees him. ....
We reached out and touched him. at 1:00 a.m., the sheriff s arrested timothy hennis and charged him with rape and capital murder. he was charged with capital murder and he would face the death penalty. the arrest sent shock waves through the tight knit community around fort bragg. fort bragg is the most patriotic community, and when somebody is convicted of murder, that just stirs the community. any idea who this would be? well, she was getting some strange phone calls. don t you give any ideas who it might be. i ain t giving no ideas. they get outraged. justice must be done. and to defend their son they hired two young lawyers. i thought that tim was guilty as all get-out, so i didn t particularly care for tim. but the law school i went to ....
Successful 25-year career in the military. tim hennis served in somalia and desert storm honorably, and tim s supervising colonel told me that he was without a doubt the best nco that he had ever worked with. he retired in 2004 and he and angela had a son who they would not have had if he had not gotten his life back together. but tim had no idea that the eastburn case was about to be breaking wide open. a 21-year-old rape kit yielded new results. and the prosecutor called gary eastburn and said that there was a hit on the dna. and he said, who? and they said hennis. you could have knocked me over with a feather. just hit with a wave of emotion. god, i don t believe it. ....
Have riled up the jury and pointed at him over and over again and you see that picture? he did it. you see that picture? he did it. our supreme court didn t just read the briefs but they got a projector and saw the show themselves, and within 22 day, 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 his infant daughter. but army paperwork that would have confirmed his whereabouts, went missing. ....
Double jeopardy in this country. i understand that, but certain cases like this, that you have a dna now that says this is the man who raped this woman and killed her, i think you should be able to and somehow the judicial system has to work around that. that was the d.a. s office who decided to see if the army was interested in bringing him off of retirement and trying him for the murders. a team of lawyers from the ranks helped evaluate the case for the army. my personal opinion about why this is important to the military is that the military sent gary eastburn for duty in alabama, and his family was left behind, and they were murdered. i am sure that there was debate within the military. it is high profile, and controversial, but you had an 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. ....