Mystery on Lockhart Road

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Speaker 2 It never goes away.

Speaker 5 It's not a day that goes by that I don't think of them.

Speaker 6 The pain becomes a part of you.

Speaker 6 Get everybody out here to my house now.

Speaker 8 He came home and found them, his entire family, gone.

Speaker 10 I said, What are you talking about? What are you saying?

Speaker 11 Is this real?

Speaker 12 Am I really here?

Speaker 13 It was surreal.

Speaker 8 His fellow cops suspected him.

Speaker 14 I did not do this!

Speaker 15 I did not do this!

Speaker 16 She was upset. She felt like history was repeating itself.

Speaker 17 He wanted to have women, and his wife was getting in the way.

Speaker 8 Were police just plain wrong?

Speaker 19 It's like this twilight zone.

Speaker 20 Lies become truth, and the truth becomes lies.

Speaker 8 Maybe the real killer was still out there.

Speaker 21 You have lied to the the police about this case.

Speaker 18 Yes, sir.

Speaker 20 So devastating.

Speaker 11 We knew that that was probably the key to solving this.

Speaker 22 13 years.

Speaker 2 13 years of hell.

Speaker 1 Such an awful crime. The wife.

Speaker 1 The little boy and girl.

Speaker 23 My kids are dead.

Speaker 1 Shot at point-blank range.

Speaker 5 I was just dumbfounded. I was shocked at what I saw.

Speaker 1 How to comprehend it?

Speaker 20 I said, what?

Speaker 10 What are you talking about? What are you saying?

Speaker 1 The husband had an alibi.

Speaker 11 Could he have slipped away for, say, 10 minutes?

Speaker 25 He could have done anything, but he didn't.

Speaker 1 13 years, three trials, appeals, reversals, and changing stories.

Speaker 27 The big picture here, Charles, for a lot of people is it sounds like a crock. It doesn't pass the sniff test.

Speaker 28 There's a lot of things about this case that doesn't make sense.

Speaker 1 It has been a long winding pursuit of justice as one family sees it.

Speaker 20 It just gets more and more wrong. I kind of adopted this saying that when you enter into the courtroom, lies become truth, and the truth becomes lies.

Speaker 1 But there is another side, another family, one which sees a terrible miscarriage of justice.

Speaker 29 You wonder if everybody got three trials, how many people would, guilty people would be out walking the streets.

Speaker 30 Mommy, that's a present for you.

Speaker 1 But there's one indisputable truth. Kim, Jill, and Bradley Cam were nothing less than innocents lost that evening.

Speaker 31 When do you miss them the most?

Speaker 4 Every day.

Speaker 11 And I'll tell you, whoever said that time heals has never lost a child.

Speaker 33 It's something both people piles.

Speaker 35 I can tell you that time doesn't heal anything.

Speaker 6 The pain becomes a part of you.

Speaker 36 Time.

Speaker 1 Turn the clock back to the year 2000, September 28th to be precise, a Thursday after work.

Speaker 1 The place, a church rec center gym in Georgetown, southern Indiana. A pickup basketball game was underway with the usual Thursday night guys.

Speaker 37 This is just you guys getting together?

Speaker 27 Just Pride.

Speaker 38 Pride, a little bit of glory days, huh?

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 1 David Cam, a 36-year-old manager at a waterproofing business, was a regular.

Speaker 39 You guys grow up with it.

Speaker 5 This is religion, right?

Speaker 40 Yeah, we play a little basketball in Indiana.

Speaker 1 That night, after the game wrapped up, David headed straight home. He and his wife, Kim, had two children.
Brad, a quiet seven-year-old, and little Jill, a Spitfire, two years younger.

Speaker 1 Usually, David helped Kim with the kids in the evening, but on this night he was late and he knew Kim wouldn't be happy about that.

Speaker 2 They got to get their homework done before they went to bed and I thought she's going to be upset when I get home because I'm not there to help.

Speaker 1 As he rolled into his driveway, he clicked the garage door open.

Speaker 24 A nightmare awaited him.

Speaker 41 Once the garage door raised up just above the

Speaker 11 hood of my truck, that's when I saw Kim.

Speaker 18 She was down on the garage floor.

Speaker 32 Yeah, actually, at first I thought it was Jill

Speaker 40 laying there.

Speaker 42 I didn't realize it was Kim until I got out of my truck and ran into the garage. And then that's when I

Speaker 42 saw that it was Kim.

Speaker 31 How do you take this in? It's too much to absorb.

Speaker 42 It's indescribable, you know, what was going through my mind at the time. I can't put it into words.

Speaker 1 Kim was still, bent slightly at the waist, a long pool of blood running from her head. The doors to her bronca were open.

Speaker 24 When do you look into the vehicle?

Speaker 42 I don't remember how long it was, but after checking on Kim,

Speaker 42 being assured in my mind that

Speaker 32 she was gone, I just suddenly thought about the kids. Where are the kids?

Speaker 9 And my first instinct was to look into the Bronco.

Speaker 42 And I got up on the passenger seat, and I could see more into the back, and that's when I saw Brad and Jill.

Speaker 1 Jill, still buckled in on the back passenger side, was slumped over. There was blood in her hair.
Next to her, Brad seemed to be clambering over the seat.

Speaker 5 Was it apparent even in your shock that this was a gunshot event?

Speaker 40 I did not know. I did not know how they had died.

Speaker 45 So you're in there between the console?

Speaker 9 Over top of the console, that's correct.

Speaker 42 That's how I got back in there and grabbed Brad.

Speaker 39 Brad, what?

Speaker 36 Felt warm to you, as you recall?

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 42 And I thought maybe he might have a chance.

Speaker 1 David had been an Indiana state trooper for almost 11 years. That night in the garage, David says, his police training kicked in.
It seemed to him that his daughter Jill was dead.

Speaker 1 But if there was even a whisper of a chance for his son Brad, David knew he had to get him out of the Bronco and give him CPR.

Speaker 42 I picked him up and pulled him into me and turned around and went back out the same way that I came in.

Speaker 21 Came out the passenger door and put him down on the garage floor and started working on him.

Speaker 46 Exactly.

Speaker 17 Were you getting any signs of anything?

Speaker 35 I just remember looking at his face.

Speaker 2 And like with Jill, his eyes,

Speaker 44 there was no moisture, and they were half shut.

Speaker 32 It was pretty obvious

Speaker 44 that he was gone.

Speaker 38 And this has all happened in what, 45 seconds in real life?

Speaker 3 That's, yeah, probably maybe a minute.

Speaker 1 Kneeling on the bloody garage floor amidst the bodies of his family, David knew he had to get help. David, get everybody out here to my house now.
Okay.

Speaker 1 He called the Indiana State Police where he used to work. Get everybody out here to my house.
Go to Dave Cam's house now.

Speaker 47 See what we're at now. Okay, David, we got people on the way, okay? Get everybody out here.
Come here.

Speaker 47 Everything's going to be okay, all right? We're going to get out of here. Everything's not okay.
Get everybody out of here.

Speaker 47 They're coming. Go to Dave Cam's house now.

Speaker 47 Okay, we're going to go out.

Speaker 47 Do you know what happened, David?

Speaker 1 David Cam's 13-year journey into hell was only minutes old.

Speaker 1 Your family dead, murdered. How do you even begin to absorb that?

Speaker 42 Just all these things spinning around inside my head.

Speaker 44 Is this real?

Speaker 12 Am I really here?

Speaker 13 It was surreal.

Speaker 1 There was more pain, much more still to come.

Speaker 1 David Cam says he came home one night in the fall of 2000 to an unimaginable horror. His wife, little boy, and girl had been murdered.

Speaker 23 Everybody out here to my house now.

Speaker 1 Okay. After trying unsuccessfully to revive his son, David ran across the street to a relative's home.

Speaker 4 I heard the banging on the door.

Speaker 1 David's uncle uncle Nelson was there.

Speaker 48 David was beating on the door and hollering, Nelson, Nelson, come quickly. Somebody's killed my family.
They're all dead.

Speaker 5 They're all dead.

Speaker 1 Nelson dropped everything and raced over to David's garage.

Speaker 5 I was just dumbfounded. I was shocked what I saw.

Speaker 1 David yelled at him to check on Jill, his daughter in the Bronco. And Nelson says he made his way carefully to the vehicle.

Speaker 1 Like David, he was a former state trooper and knew that crime scenes had to be preserved.

Speaker 48 I looked in the back seat, and that's when I saw little Jill back there. I reached back and I touched her on the arm or shoulder or something, and I said, Jilly, Jilly, Jilly.

Speaker 18 You knew she was gone, huh?

Speaker 48 I knew she was gone.

Speaker 48 And I said, Dave, I think they're all gone, buddy.

Speaker 13 I think they're all gone.

Speaker 1 David lost it.

Speaker 48 He actually went down to the ground and was laying on his back and rolling around.

Speaker 5 And so, why?

Speaker 46 Why did I have to go?

Speaker 5 Why did I have to go?

Speaker 48 Why did I stay with him?

Speaker 1 Uncle Nelson managed to get David away from the garage.

Speaker 48 Dave was trying his best to get back in.

Speaker 4 I wouldn't let him go back in.

Speaker 17 So you really are the officer securing this?

Speaker 48 I was trying to keep them. I knew it had to be done because I knew we had a horrific scene here at a crime scene and I wanted to make sure that I didn't do anything to hamper it.

Speaker 1 David Cam says he was way beyond understanding anything that night, but the questions wouldn't stop.

Speaker 42 Just all these things spinning around inside my head.

Speaker 44 Is this real?

Speaker 12 Am I really here?

Speaker 35 Did I really just find Kim and Brad and Jill as they are?

Speaker 32 You know, it was just, it was surreal.

Speaker 1 That night was the end of everything David and Kim had built together.

Speaker 1 They'd met in the late 1980s. They were introduced by Marcy McLeod.
Marcy had been best friends with Kim ever since ninth grade.

Speaker 16 She was very quiet for the people that didn't know her, but very funny, very loyal,

Speaker 16 very sweet.

Speaker 1 David and Kim married in 1989. They threw a big fun party, then got on with their lives.
Kim in corporate accounting and David as an Indiana state trooper, a career Kim had encouraged him to pursue.

Speaker 42 Find that drunken driver in the south.

Speaker 1 Here he is in uniform being interviewed in the 1990s about road safety during the holidays. The big hat seemed tailor-made for David Cam.
He was soon member of an elite emergency kind of SWAT team.

Speaker 24 That is the Band of Brothers, huh?

Speaker 23 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 26 Kind of special weapons tactical group.

Speaker 5 Right, exactly.

Speaker 40 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Love those guys.

Speaker 40 I mean, they were talking about guys that you would literally die for.

Speaker 1 But over time, after the kids were born, David wanted to spend more time with his family.

Speaker 1 So in May 2000, he went to work as a manager in his Uncle Sam Lockart's business and left the Band of Brothers.

Speaker 24 Boy, it must have been hard to leave, Dave.

Speaker 35 You know, it was.

Speaker 24 I mean, you had this good thing you're going to, and you wanted to have more of a life, but yet you're.

Speaker 27 I can see how much you liked.

Speaker 3 Being in law enforcement.

Speaker 35 Yeah, I just felt like it was definitely, I was in a point in my life when I needed to make that change and I wanted to make that change.

Speaker 40 And I presumed that I would remain close with these guys, that they would always be my friends, and that they would always have my back if I ever needed them.

Speaker 1 By September 2000, the Cam seemed to be living a picture-perfect life. Things were going well at home and at work.

Speaker 1 Kim was a totally engaged mother. David's uncle, Sam Lockhart, saw the Cam family all the time.

Speaker 23 Great mom.

Speaker 51 A great mom. She would run those kids everywhere.
And the kids, they were like my grandkids. Jill!

Speaker 4 Jill!

Speaker 4 Little Jill, yep.

Speaker 5 Tell me about her.

Speaker 11 She was a character. She really was.

Speaker 35 Just a funny little girl.

Speaker 11 If she didn't have your attention, she'd get it.

Speaker 35 She was very, I think she would have been very athletic.

Speaker 22 She was gifted in that way.

Speaker 24 And Brad was the swimmer, right?

Speaker 12 He loved it. He was great at it.

Speaker 22 Being a father, I thought, this kid's good.

Speaker 1 There were gatherings with David's sprawling extended family, the Lockharts, the descendants of nine brothers and sisters on David's mother's side.

Speaker 1 The Lockharts were so entrenched in this patch of southern Indiana that they had a road named after them, Lockhart Road, where David's family lived.

Speaker 11 There could not have been a better place for us to be when all of this terrible stuff happened.

Speaker 1 The awful news raced through two families that night. David's sister Julie was getting ready to go to bed when the phone rang.

Speaker 20 I said, what?

Speaker 10 What are you talking about? What are you saying?

Speaker 1 Julie went straight to her parents' house.

Speaker 20 Mom had all the pictures.

Speaker 20 of Brad and Jill, I guess, that she could gather up and was holding them and just sitting on the floor and just rocking and saying, my babies, my babies, they've killed my babies.

Speaker 20 Somebody's killed my babies.

Speaker 1 David sent his uncles to tell Kim's parents, Janice and Frank Wren.

Speaker 17 Janice, late at night, the doorbell rings.

Speaker 24 What can this be, huh?

Speaker 29 Well, it can't be good.

Speaker 23 So

Speaker 29 I go out and I open the door and I see him standing out there and I think my mind just went blank.

Speaker 52 And Janice yelled for me to get out there.

Speaker 53 So when I got out there, Sam said, got some bad news.

Speaker 52 Kim Brad and Jill been shot. With that, I just kind of slid down to sitting position.

Speaker 53 I sat there and

Speaker 53 cried.

Speaker 50 I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 1 On Lockhart Road, the sound of sirens, followed by flashing lights.

Speaker 1 A homicide investigation was beginning, and David's friends and former colleagues in the Indiana State Police would be on the front line.

Speaker 1 Something strange at the crime scene. Kim's shoes placed neatly on top of the Bronco.

Speaker 5 What could that mean?

Speaker 47 Never seen her take your shoes off.

Speaker 23 Never.

Speaker 47 You saw the shoes, though.

Speaker 54 Straight up here.

Speaker 1 A mother, son, and daughter gunned down in the garage of the family home in a quiet Indiana County. The two kids never made it out of the back seat of the Bronco.

Speaker 23 Who murdered them?

Speaker 1 The answer to that question would be the responsibility of the investigators, the Indiana State Police, and the Floyd County prosecutor in southern Indiana, Stan Faith.

Speaker 1 He got the call at 10, 10.30 that night.

Speaker 45 Did someone from the other end of the phone tell you it's bad?

Speaker 2 Prepare yourself.

Speaker 4 It was horrible. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Faith knew immediately that the case would be big. He got to the crime scene ASAP.

Speaker 1 The first thing the prosecutor noticed was the ribbon of blood running out of the garage right down the drive.

Speaker 55 I almost stepped in it myself.

Speaker 1 He could see the wife and mother, Kim Kam, lying by the open passenger door, her pants removed. It had the signature of a sex crime, the children killed because they were witnesses.

Speaker 1 Seven-year-old Brad was on his back, a gray sweatshirt lying by him, an article of clothing that would become hugely important in time.

Speaker 55 The boy was laying there.

Speaker 55 His hands were out. And of course, I didn't see the little girl, and they told me that she was still in the truck.

Speaker 1 The state police, Indiana's top investigative force, had already begun its work.

Speaker 1 The crime scene techs examined the Bronco, took their measurements and their pictures, and Stan Faith studied the scene.

Speaker 5 Was there anything odd or was it too soon for you to take all that stuff in? No, no, no.

Speaker 55 The thing that struck me the most was how clean the garage was. You just don't expect that.

Speaker 1 Some of the troopers in the garage had been fellow officers of the husband, David Cam.

Speaker 40 There were a couple that I didn't really recognize, but for the most part, throughout the course of the evening, they would be people that I knew.

Speaker 1 The trooper who would become the lead investigator was David's childhood friend.

Speaker 5 They had the talk right there.

Speaker 35 Dave, you know we got to clear you first. And I kept saying, just do it right.
I said that repeatedly.

Speaker 1 As a former cop, David Cam knew the score about spouses.

Speaker 18 You knew because of your experience, experience, they always look at the spouse.

Speaker 32 Sure, you know, everybody's a suspect.

Speaker 14 In the beginning, you don't know.

Speaker 1 But in his case, David thought it was a by-the-book formality. He was confident his friends would do all they could to find the killer.

Speaker 22 These were your brothers in uniform.

Speaker 18 These guys.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 24 You'd ridden with them.

Speaker 5 I hadn't been to their house. You'd done a lot of tough stuff with them.

Speaker 42 They'd been to my house.

Speaker 35 We had eaten together.

Speaker 42 We knew each other's families.

Speaker 54 I'm here at the Indian State Police Post and also present is David Cam.

Speaker 1 In this audio tape of his first interview that night, you can hear the troopers handling him with kid gloves out of respect.

Speaker 47 We're going to try and find out what happened here so

Speaker 23 we can

Speaker 47 run that person to justice as best we know how to do it right. So exactly whatever you want to ask.

Speaker 1 The questioner walked David through his day and his wife's.

Speaker 1 As far as David knew, she'd followed her usual busy routine, working, then shepherding the kids around after school, returning home about 7:30 p.m.

Speaker 1 Was the shooter waiting for her in the garage? Or did her killer follow her in? The investigators asked David if anyone had been stalking Kim, bothering her.

Speaker 47 She hasn't said word.

Speaker 47 How about phone calls?

Speaker 47 Hang-up phone call, suspicious phone call,

Speaker 23 the real.

Speaker 1 And they wanted to know if the husband could help them understand an oddity about the crime scene. Why would Kim's shoes have ended up neatly placed atop the roof of the Bronco?

Speaker 47 I have no idea where all those shoes are so. Does she ever kick her shoes off when she's driving? Never see her take her shoes off.

Speaker 47 Never.

Speaker 47 You saw those shoes, though?

Speaker 54 Damn it straight, I did.

Speaker 1 As the investigators wrapped up, they made sure David got some fresh clothing because they were sending his blood-speckled sneakers and t-shirt out for testing.

Speaker 47 We'll do everything we can, as far as we can, to to resolve this.

Speaker 1 The next day, the Cam's neighbors were absolutely stunned by a crime of this magnitude in their quiet community.

Speaker 56 It makes no sense. You know, they've never been any triple out of here to speak of, you know.

Speaker 1 As the hunt for the killer continued, investigators asked neighbors if they'd seen or heard anything suspicious.

Speaker 58 Right now, this is very, very much an open investigation.

Speaker 1 Three days after the murders, David Cam faced the cameras. I want my family back.
back.

Speaker 1 I want my babies back. I want my wife back.

Speaker 1 And he begged the killer to come forward.

Speaker 59 Turn yourself in. You can't live with the guilt.
What you did was such a

Speaker 1 irrational, ridiculous, ludicrous, satanic

Speaker 1 thing.

Speaker 58 You cannot.

Speaker 59 You cannot live with that guilt.

Speaker 1 An arrest in the case was only hours away.

Speaker 14 I'm a mess. I'm on medication.
I'm having to buy caskets.

Speaker 40 I'm having to buy burial plots.

Speaker 1 A husband and father in mourning. About to face the second biggest surprise of his life.

Speaker 56 You're not right. You're wrong.
You're wrong, wrong, wrong.

Speaker 1 In the days after the murders, two families, the Lockharts, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, and Kim's family were united in grief.

Speaker 46 We lost three wonderful people that we love dearly.

Speaker 48 We don't have them with us today.

Speaker 18 Kim, Bradley, jailed, just like that, gone.

Speaker 1 David was all but shutting down.

Speaker 23 I'm a mess.

Speaker 14 I'm on medication. You know, I'm having to buy caskets.
I'm having to buy burial plots.

Speaker 22 You know, I've got all this stuff going on.

Speaker 1 Three days after the murders, the Indiana State Police called David in for a second interview.

Speaker 1 He sat down with two cops he knew well. He'd been sharing coffee and cases with them for years.

Speaker 56 Because of the high profile of this case, because of, obviously, as you know, well, no rioting, we're doing this all by the numbers.

Speaker 1 This time, the tone of the interview had changed, because now the investigators did have a working theory of the murders and the evidence they were gathering pointed to none other than David Cam as the killer.

Speaker 1 Their one-time fellow trooper, their law enforcement brother, was now quite possibly their man, a monster who had murdered his family. They had a timeline.

Speaker 1 The murders took place, they believed, between 9.15 and 9.30 that night after David returned home.

Speaker 56 People heard something

Speaker 56 They thought was unusual. When we talked to them, they said sounded like gunfire.

Speaker 1 The police canvas had turned up a neighbor who heard noises. Maybe shots fired.

Speaker 56 They know the time.

Speaker 56 The time was when you were already home, which was

Speaker 56 around 9.20, shortly thereafter.

Speaker 1 David saw where this was going and pushed back.

Speaker 56 This is just max. I'm just telling you what we, you know, what's wrong.

Speaker 56 Are these people making up this time? I'm telling you, people are confused. The time element is off.

Speaker 1 The investigator's account had David Camp square in the crosshairs. He came home from basketball and killed his family.

Speaker 56 It's not right.

Speaker 56 It's not right. It's not right.
It's not right, guys. You're not right.
You're wrong. You're wrong, wrong, wrong.

Speaker 56 The, uh, you're wrong, Daryl. You're wrong.

Speaker 56 This is not right.

Speaker 56 You're getting off the track. Something's not right here.
Now fix it.

Speaker 1 They told David about physical evidence they'd collected.

Speaker 1 specks of blood barely visible to the naked eye on the bottom of the t-shirt he wore that night a crime scene expert science had already told them the husband and father did it

Speaker 56 there's blood on your shirt and they'll have a dna analyzed this is the presumptive test

Speaker 56 that it is

Speaker 56 high velocity blood spatter it's scientific documentation the only way that comes on is from blowback or blowout from a gunshot wound Bloodspatter, the case against David Cam.

Speaker 56 That is supposed to be on my t-shirt that I play ball in. It's on

Speaker 56 you.

Speaker 56 It's wrong, Gary.

Speaker 56 Dave,

Speaker 56 what do we do when they tell us that? Now we got to figure out why. I better find another expert.

Speaker 1 But the cops had full confidence in their man.

Speaker 56 I rely on this man and he's he's very

Speaker 56 well he's renowned as far as his expertise. This is not something he just started to do yesterday.

Speaker 1 The noose was tightening even as David protested.

Speaker 56 The t-shirt that I had on

Speaker 56 was what I had on. That's what I wore over and that's what I wore home.

Speaker 56 And any blood it's got on it now came from either an impression of something I leaned on in the car,

Speaker 56 or it came off of Brad himself.

Speaker 1 And there was more. Signs of a cleanup.
That had to be David.

Speaker 56 She cleaned this, tried to clean this up.

Speaker 56 Tried to clean some of the blood.

Speaker 56 No, no, no. This is ridiculous.

Speaker 56 What about some bleach, Dave? No.

Speaker 56 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 56 No,

Speaker 56 no, no.

Speaker 56 I didn't clean up.

Speaker 56 Somebody may have,

Speaker 56 but it wasn't me.

Speaker 56 That person is your suspect.

Speaker 1 And there was something disturbing the medical examiner found when she looked at Jill, the young daughter. Signs of blunt trauma in the genital area.
To the cops, that meant one thing.

Speaker 1 David Cam had molested his daughter.

Speaker 15 She was molested.

Speaker 33 It happened that day.

Speaker 33 That night. That's when it happened.

Speaker 15 And it wasn't by me.

Speaker 33 You guys are wrong here. You're wrong Mickey.

Speaker 15 I did not do this.

Speaker 15 I Did not do this

Speaker 15 I don't know. That's why I called you guys

Speaker 15 That's what your job. That's what you're supposed to be doing.
You're looking so hard at me. We look at everybody date, but honestly but Mickey, you're so off base.
You're so wrong.

Speaker 15 You're so wrong, Mickey.

Speaker 18 An arrest warrant issued out of Florida Superior Court.

Speaker 1 Hours after his second interview, the Indiana State Police arrested David Cam and charged him with the murders of his wife and two children. It had been three days since the shootings.

Speaker 1 Accused of murder. And the evidence? A phone call.

Speaker 5 This phone call blows up his alibi.

Speaker 46 Yes.

Speaker 1 A t-shirt. And a parade of women.

Speaker 61 There's people he pulls over, flirts with them, and eventually seduces them

Speaker 61 oh my baby's back

Speaker 1 david camp once an indiana state trooper was now locked up in the floyd county jail charged with the murder of his wife and children tell me about your emotions Every time I heard a key jingle outside my door, I would think to myself, oh, this is it.

Speaker 3 They've figured it out and they're going to come let me out and say, Dave, we messed up.

Speaker 1 But that never happened. David's uncle and boss, Sam Lockhart, a successful local businessman, quickly became his nephew's most passionate advocate.
Sam had the grit to make his voice heard.

Speaker 26 Why did you take on the responsibility, Sam, to take it as far as you could?

Speaker 51 I didn't have any other options. I know he's innocent.
I know he lost his family. And I know he's lost his freedom.
And what am I going to do? He didn't lose me.

Speaker 26 The focus was so concentrated on David.

Speaker 49 Did you ever think, well, maybe I don't have the picture here.

Speaker 31 Maybe something awful happened and David snapped and did indeed kill his family.

Speaker 51 Well, I never did think Dave killed his family.

Speaker 63 Never.

Speaker 24 You never?

Speaker 51 Never thought it. Never did.

Speaker 1 Kim's parents, Janice and Frank Wren, mourning the loss of their daughter and grandchildren, were absorbing the awful facts the police told them, that their son-in-law was the killer.

Speaker 26 Janice, they've made an arrest.

Speaker 18 and it's David.

Speaker 29 I was just out of it. Then when it finally did sink in, I was back and forth.

Speaker 64 Frank, how about you?

Speaker 39 What were you we're talking about early days here?

Speaker 5 Yeah, I wasn't 100% sure.

Speaker 52 I mean, I was just going by what the police was telling me.

Speaker 1 Before long, the Wrens became convinced that their son-in-law had murdered his family. In January 2002, 15 months after the murders, David Cam went on trial.
He pleaded not guilty.

Speaker 1 By now, the prosecutor's timeline had changed. Originally, he said David killed his family between 9.15 and 9.30 after he returned home from the basketball game.

Speaker 5 And then you backtracked from that.

Speaker 62 We backtracked from that.

Speaker 1 That's because the defense had shown that the time of death was somewhere between 7.30 and 8 p.m.

Speaker 55 Everything said that this happened much earlier.

Speaker 1 Now, the prosecutor argued David went to the gym about 7 o'clock, then secretly ducked out of the basketball game, ate the five-minute drive home, killed his family, and returned to play ball.

Speaker 1 And the prosecutor had proof that David was home at the time of the murders. There was a call to a customer from his landline phone, timestamped 7.19 p.m.

Speaker 27 So you got a husband who says, I was playing basketball at 7.

Speaker 49 You got a phone record that says he likely is making a call to a customer at landline in his home, so he's not playing basketball.

Speaker 55 Almost certainly would be the one that was doing it.

Speaker 5 And that this phone call blows up his alibi.

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 1 The prosecutor moved on to the crime scene and focused on what happened to Kim in the garage that night.

Speaker 55 We thought the pants had been pulled down.

Speaker 17 You've accused the husband of the murder.

Speaker 45 Why are you telling the jury that he probably pulled her pants down?

Speaker 17 As part of a staged event.

Speaker 1 Kim had not been raped, but the prosecutor argued her body appeared to have been moved, staged, and a cop would know how to do it.

Speaker 55 Trying to get the jury to think that somebody was in there to molest her.

Speaker 39 That there'd been a break-in guy, huh?

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Investigators had never located the murder weapon. The only physical evidence the state had that the gun was in David Cam's hand that night was this.

Speaker 1 Barely visible microscopic droplets of his daughter's blood on the lower left hem of Cam's t-shirt. How those drops of blood got there was the crux of the case.

Speaker 46 Blowback.

Speaker 24 This is what happens when you shoot somebody at close range. Yes.
You get that blood on your shirt. Correct.

Speaker 55 If you got high-velocity impact spatter on his t-shirt, He has to be within four feet of the child at the time that the child was killed.

Speaker 1 The prosecution believed David Cam shot from inside the car, targeting Jill in the back seat. That's how her blood sprayed on his shirt.

Speaker 50 But why?

Speaker 1 Why would David Cam kill his family? The reason for those killings, the prosecutor declared, was that David Cam was a philandering husband.

Speaker 16 It probably was one of the first times that I really ever heard Kim cry.

Speaker 1 Remember Kim's old friend, Marcy McLeod? The prosecutor had her testify about an affair David had when Kim was pregnant in late 1994.

Speaker 1 Marcy told the court Kim called her in tears to say she and David were separating. Soon after, Marcy visited Kim.

Speaker 16 She was upset,

Speaker 16 you know, and saddened by it, especially. Just having a baby.

Speaker 1 And there was more. Just three weeks before the murders, Marcy had another troubling phone call from Kim.

Speaker 16 Her demeanor was different, her attitude, and she didn't want to hang up the phone, but yet she didn't want to talk.

Speaker 1 The old friends made plans for Kim and the children to visit Marcy. Then Kim said something she never explained.

Speaker 16 She felt like history was repeating itself. We didn't go into what that meant because she said, well, I'll talk about it when I get there.

Speaker 1 Kim never made it. At trial, the clear implication was that David Cam was catting around again.
The prosecutor portrayed him as a scoundrel who used his badge to get sex.

Speaker 61 There's people he pulls over, flirts with them, and eventually seduces them.

Speaker 1 In court, the prosecutor called a parade of women, presenting them as David Cam's conquests. More than a dozen of them recounting the fondling, the flirting, the sex, the scripper in the patrol car.

Speaker 17 He wanted to have women and his wife was getting in the way.

Speaker 46 Yes.

Speaker 17 So she was an obstacle to the kind of lifestyle that he wanted to pursue.

Speaker 4 That's correct.

Speaker 1 And if the dalliances with the women weren't enough to suggest motivation to the jury, the prosecutor had a capper, something really dreadful.

Speaker 1 The medical examiner's testimony that injuries observed on the murdered daughter, five-year-old Jill, were consistent with sexual abuse.

Speaker 45 So not a little girl falling on the monkey bars.

Speaker 55 No, there wasn't monkey bars. Wasn't a bicycle.

Speaker 57 Anything like that.

Speaker 1 So there was the prosecution's accused. Womanizer, child molester, the killer with blowback blood spatter on his t-shirt.
The defense lawyers had their work cut out for them.

Speaker 24 You had an uphill fight as the defense attorney.

Speaker 50 Oh, yes, sir.

Speaker 65 Yes, sir. And that's not unusual, but this one was just so much more high-profile.

Speaker 1 The timeline of the crime.

Speaker 32 That was their smoking gun.

Speaker 1 The defense is about to stop the clock.

Speaker 1 The trial of David Cam was underway in Floyd County, Indiana. It was the winter of 2002.

Speaker 47 Nervous to see that those men and women will decide your fate?

Speaker 1 David Cam, accused of murdering his wife and two young children, always insisted the case against him was built on quicksand.

Speaker 35 It's about them crafting and molding a belief that was totally founded founded on things that weren't factual, and it was just a complete fiction.

Speaker 17 David's defense attorney was Mike McDaniel, now deceased.

Speaker 1 He told us he had known David as a trooper.

Speaker 26 What impressions did you have of David before he became the client?

Speaker 65 I figured he was another redneck state cop.

Speaker 65 We'd done a couple of cases, him on one side, me on the other.

Speaker 1 But McDaniel became convinced of David's innocence and came on board to defend him.

Speaker 65 This is one of those terrible cases that a defense lawyer never wants.

Speaker 50 You don't want an innocent client.

Speaker 65 You call them a ravager because they make you crazy.

Speaker 1 At trial, McDaniel knew he had to confront all those women, but how? The defense could only flinch and take the body blows to Cam's character.

Speaker 17 The jury's getting a picture of this hardworking wife, nose to the grindstone, taking care of the babies, running the household.

Speaker 45 Yep.

Speaker 18 While he's out with pole dancers.

Speaker 23 Yep.

Speaker 65 On duty, he got 13 women coming in there with varying degrees of

Speaker 65 sexual contact or innuendo. Another trooper's wife, for God's sakes.

Speaker 39 Not a good set of facts.

Speaker 65 Not a good set of facts.

Speaker 1 The defense pulled out potentially its strongest weapon and put David on the stand to say he knew that he'd messed up.

Speaker 22 You know, I regret all of that stuff.

Speaker 43 It's so unfortunate, the disrespect that I showed my wife.

Speaker 35 But good God, we don't jump from that to saying that automatically makes a person a murderer.

Speaker 32 It's just ridiculous.

Speaker 1 Then the defense had to confront the ugly allegation that five-year-old Jill Cam had been molested. But in fact, the medical examiner's report had not actually said that.

Speaker 1 It simply stated the girl's bruises were the result of blunt trauma. The defense argued the bruises happened during the attack.
Still, it was tough going.

Speaker 24 We've got a guy who seems to have a lot of girlfriends.

Speaker 45 There may be some evidence here of child molestation.

Speaker 62 This is a very, very tough thing to combat, Dave.

Speaker 35 It is. It's virtually impossible.

Speaker 1 Having done its best to hammer the state's case for motive, the defense turned to the physical evidence. The state's strongest evidence, the forensic case for David's guilt, was the blood spatter.

Speaker 1 A defense expert testified the blood got on David's t-shirt very simply. When David reached into the back seat to move his son, his shirt brushed against his daughter's hair.

Speaker 65 There were tiny droplets of blood on some of her hair around the wound.

Speaker 65 So defense testimony was that was transfer

Speaker 65 from that contact with the ends of the strands of her hair.

Speaker 1 And then the timeline. The defense lawyer challenged the prosecution's theory that David snuck out in the middle of his basketball game, killed his family, and then returned to play ball.

Speaker 1 The defense attorney focused on the phone call made from the cam house at 7.19 p.m. when David said he was at the church gym.
The state had tethered its timeline to that phone call.

Speaker 35 That was their smoking gun, which they had a bunch of those. And every time they have a smoking gun, we just unload it.

Speaker 1 The defense unloaded by calling a witness from Verizon who testified that its timestamp was incorrect because of Indiana's jumble time zones.

Speaker 14 So their 7-19 phone call actually was my 6-19 phone call.

Speaker 1 A call David made to a client before he left to play ball. And even more important, David had a solid alibi.

Speaker 1 11 eyewitnesses, the basketball players, to corroborate his story that he'd been to the gym throughout the early evening. Did he leave the court that night?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 23 No.

Speaker 62 He couldn't have left without one of you guys.

Speaker 66 Without one of them, because I would see him at one point in time running down the court, and then maybe Jeff would have seen him at another point in time.

Speaker 66 So throughout that time, there's 10 sets of eyes looking in different directions. As a group, I think someone would have noticed that he was missing.

Speaker 1 Sam Lockhart, the uncle, was playing ball that night, too.

Speaker 26 Sam, the basketball game, is it possible Dave could have slipped away?

Speaker 51 Is it possible that he snuck out, was gone 10 or 15 minutes, killed his family, and snuck back in without any one of us noticing it? Absolutely not. That's impossible.

Speaker 1 But if David wasn't the killer, then who was?

Speaker 1 The defense had its answer. It was the person who owned that gray sweatshirt, the one that was lying by Brad's body on the garage floor the night of the murders.

Speaker 1 Defense Attorney Mike McDaniel had recognized the sweatshirt as prison issue.

Speaker 65 In the color of the sweatshirt is the word backbone.

Speaker 65 And I'm thinking, okay,

Speaker 65 that's a nickname.

Speaker 1 Tests on that sweatshirt revealed DNA from various people, including an unknown male. But the prosecutor said there was no match when that male DNA was run through the national database.

Speaker 1 Still, it seemed to be a breakthrough for Team David. Proof that someone else was in the garage that night.

Speaker 11 We knew that that was probably the key to solving this.

Speaker 35 Now, we didn't know that person by name.

Speaker 14 By God, we knew him by a DNA profile.

Speaker 1 Finally, it was up to the jurors. As reporters lingered in the hallway, the jury deliberated for three days.

Speaker 19 Guilty.

Speaker 1 Guilty. David Cam was found guilty of killing his wife and children.

Speaker 24 Frank, the jury comes back, and guilty has charged.

Speaker 52 Yeah, that's what we wanted. And now we felt like, you know, we can.

Speaker 50 Cam and Branjill, they can be at rest now.

Speaker 1 But from David's sister, an emotional outburst.

Speaker 20 Before I even knew it, I was standing up and I was screaming, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong. And a few people had to take me out of the courtroom.

Speaker 5 And you're being walked off in chains.

Speaker 26 You're not leaving that courthouse.

Speaker 50 Right.

Speaker 35 And knowing what lies ahead of me, you know, going to prison, a former police officer.

Speaker 43 But there's absolutely nothing I can do about it.

Speaker 1 David Cam was sent to the state penitentiary penitentiary to serve a term of 195 years. But his Uncle Sam was hanging in.

Speaker 24 You didn't think you're finished at that point.

Speaker 51 Unless they had killed me,

Speaker 51 that's how they could have stopped me. They could have killed me.

Speaker 46 No, it wasn't over.

Speaker 1 It wasn't over, not by a long shot. But not even Uncle Sam could predict the stunning turn that lay ahead.

Speaker 1 A break in the case.

Speaker 1 Someone new enters the picture.

Speaker 30 As brainy as Ted Bundy and as brawny as Mike Tyson, he's a sociopath.

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Speaker 1 In early 2002, David Cabb was found guilty on three counts of murdering his wife and two children. His sentence, 195 years behind bars.

Speaker 45 You've been sent to the slammer that you're going to do time in?

Speaker 17 Right. Yeah, ultimately.
You're learning how to become incarcerated.

Speaker 5 I had to.

Speaker 43 I didn't have a choice.

Speaker 9 I had to figure out how to survive.

Speaker 35 And I made my mind up early on.

Speaker 32 That's what I was going to do.

Speaker 5 Whatever it was.

Speaker 27 Did you get confronted inside the joint?

Speaker 17 This is the guy that was a former cop, trooper?

Speaker 44 Not directly, but people would say things or you would hear people talking and so on.

Speaker 31 Did you think I'm done?

Speaker 43 You know what?

Speaker 35 I was just bewildered at first, but I didn't know that there was still a possibility or some glimmer of hope that there's this thing called an appeal.

Speaker 1 A successful appeal, another trial. Most convicts cling futilely to that straw.

Speaker 31 Overturning a first-degree murder conviction, long odds.

Speaker 19 Yes, until you read that transcript.

Speaker 1 A new team of attorneys, Kitty Lyle and Stacey Uliana, took the case to the State Court of Appeals.

Speaker 19 And then it wasn't long odds in my my mind. I mean, because it was way over the top.

Speaker 1 What was over the top, they argued, was allowing all those women to testify to the sex, the groping, the come-ons.

Speaker 19 I mean, it was weeks after weeks, woman after woman.

Speaker 30 How is that relevant to what happened on September 28th?

Speaker 26 Juris, this is a bad guy we've got here.

Speaker 44 Absolutely.

Speaker 26 He's a louse of a husband.

Speaker 50 And we're going to tell you more than that.

Speaker 30 That was intentional, too.

Speaker 1 And guess what? Two years after the guilty verdict, the appeals court agreed. The women should never have been permitted to testify.
The conviction was overturned, but the victory was short-lived.

Speaker 1 A new prosecutor announced there would be a second trial.

Speaker 70 After review of the previous evidence and review of some new evidence that has come to light, I've decided to pursue the charges against David Cam for the murders of Kimberly Cam.

Speaker 70 Bradley Cam, and Jill Cam.

Speaker 1 With another trial looming, the defense team was intent on bringing sharply into focus a piece of evidence it believed would set David free. The gray sweatshirt with that unknown male DNA.

Speaker 1 Back in 2001, the prosecutor said there'd been no match when the DNA was run through a national criminal database. But Sam Lockhart says he approached the new investigators to run it through again.

Speaker 51 They wouldn't even want to talk to me. I wanted to show them the unknown DNA.
I said, in case that this guy had been arrested now and you got new DNA on this data bank, would you run this?

Speaker 51 No, we can't take it.

Speaker 1 And the attorneys try. They ask the prosecutor.

Speaker 19 We start saying, please run the DNA through the data bank. Please do it.
And he refuses.

Speaker 1 The state finally ran the DNA three months after Sam Lockhart first started asking about it.

Speaker 19 And lo and behold, we find Charles Bonet.

Speaker 49 Charles Bonet, does this name mean anything to you?

Speaker 35 Didn't mean a thing. I'd never heard the name before.

Speaker 35 It was a complete shock to me.

Speaker 1 Charles Bonet, a name that would change everything in the case against David Cam.

Speaker 1 Bonet, his prison nickname was Backbone, the same name inked in on the sweatshirt's collar.

Speaker 26 Who does this guy Bonet turn out to be?

Speaker 30 As brainy as Ted Bundy and as brawny as Mike Tyson. He's a sociopath.

Speaker 1 Charles Bonet, a criminal with a history of violent crimes against women. It began in the 1980s when he was a student at Indiana University.

Speaker 1 Newspapers called him the shoebandit and followed his bizarre crimes. There had been four separate incidents.
His early M.O., he'd knock a woman to the ground and make off with one of her shoes.

Speaker 30 Really creepy stuff, like one crime he wore one of those China doll masks. I mean, like creepy stuff you can't make up.

Speaker 1 But police were onto him. After one arrest, he admitted in effect that he had a thing for ladies' legs and feet.
He pleaded guilty to those crimes, and in time, his attacks became more violent.

Speaker 1 He began threatening women at gunpoint. One incident involved three co-eds.

Speaker 30 He had been watching them and one night just walked into their apartment, held them at gunpoint to their head, took them out, kidnapped them to the car.

Speaker 30 Luckily, somebody saw him with the gun leading the women out, called Bloomington Police Department.

Speaker 1 He pleaded guilty again and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for armed robbery, but was released after serving only seven years.

Speaker 1 By July 2000, three months before the Cam murders, he was out on parole. And the defense maintains he still had the old compulsion.

Speaker 73 Kim Kam fit the profile.

Speaker 30 Yes, he has a foot fetish. And so when they thought at first that

Speaker 30 it was not a sex crime, we kept saying, well, not everybody targets the same place in sex crimes.

Speaker 1 Kim Kam had bruising on her toes. Her shoes were on top of the bronco.
Her pants had been removed. And Bonet's sweatshirt with his DNA was at the crime scene.

Speaker 1 And it turns out that DNA had been in the database three years before the murders.

Speaker 19 It took one hour and one email to find Charles Bonet. That could have been done in 2002 had

Speaker 19 Prosecutor Faith done it.

Speaker 30 And you'd think on a case in which, you know, children and a mom are murdered, ambushed in a garage, that they would bend over backwards to do it right.

Speaker 1 Stan Faith was the prosecutor in trial one.

Speaker 37 The defense said, well, we asked you, the state, the prosecutors, to send that out to be balanced, to be tested against a national register of DNA.

Speaker 55 I asked the lead investigator to do that, and he said we didn't get anything.

Speaker 49 But in fact, he hadn't sent it out at all.

Speaker 55 No, I think he sent it out.

Speaker 1 No, he hadn't sent the proper DNA.

Speaker 1 Faith says he later learned the detective sent out the wrong DNA sample from the sweatshirt. Mike McDaniel, David's first defense attorney, didn't buy that.

Speaker 50 I think he's a liar.

Speaker 5 You don't think he ever ran it?

Speaker 65 No, I don't think he ever asked anybody to run it.

Speaker 24 He told you he did.

Speaker 37 Yes. So when he says that the prosecution is lying to him.

Speaker 55 Lying means that you knowingly

Speaker 74 you tell a falsehood.

Speaker 55 I didn't tell him a lie. I told him what I thought was true.

Speaker 1 But whatever the truth is, now more than four years later, there was a name to that DNA.

Speaker 27 Do you allow yourself to think here we are on our way to case closed finally?

Speaker 5 Absolutely.

Speaker 24 You've got a name, you've got genetic forensic evidence.

Speaker 5 This is the shooter. This is the killer.
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 A new suspect in the hot seat.

Speaker 5 If anything else linked you to it, you're done.

Speaker 27 Stick a fork in you.

Speaker 26 And see, that would normally worry me. I wasn't there.

Speaker 1 This intense interrogation, where will it lead?

Speaker 1 By 2005, David Kam had been behind bars for more than four years.

Speaker 35 Generally, from September through February, it were my darkest times of the year.

Speaker 14 You know, the times of the murders, and then you have the holidays, and then the kids' birthdays in February.

Speaker 62 Did you feel yourself becoming institutionalized?

Speaker 2 I had to to a degree.

Speaker 35 And for me, it was a matter of, you know,

Speaker 35 sitting back and observing and seeing how things operate so that I could fit in enough, you know, to be okay.

Speaker 22 You know, I had to lock the real me down inside.

Speaker 18 How were his spirits, Julie?

Speaker 26 Was he holding on or was he sinking?

Speaker 20 Dave would sink only briefly. He would have lows.
There'd be times when I'd talk to him and he'd sound really down, but he never stayed there because he couldn't stay there.

Speaker 20 Staying in that despondency, that hopelessness is

Speaker 20 excruciating.

Speaker 1 But now there finally seemed to be a break in the case. The unknown male DNA on the sweatshirt had been identified as Charles Bonnet's.

Speaker 1 And just two days later, the cops brought Bonet in and started grilling him on how it ended up on the garage floor.

Speaker 75 That sweatshirt is in the middle of a crime scene of a triple homicide.

Speaker 75 Somehow that sweatshirt got there, your sweatshirt.

Speaker 75 You explained to me how it got there.

Speaker 26 I have no idea.

Speaker 1 Bonet admitted the sweatshirt had once been his, but said he dumped it in the Salvation Army drop box about a month before the murders.

Speaker 75 It shows up at a crime scene, not laundry, not washed. If it went through the Salvation Army dropbox, that would have been a clean sweatshirt.

Speaker 46 Your DNA...

Speaker 24 Chances are probably wouldn't have been on there, but it is.

Speaker 26 I see where you're coming from.

Speaker 1 As for David Cam.

Speaker 75 You know David Cam?

Speaker 60 No.

Speaker 75 You ever met David Cam?

Speaker 50 No.

Speaker 75 Do you remember the murder of David Cam's family?

Speaker 5 On television, yes.

Speaker 75 Do you know where David Cam lives?

Speaker 75 Only on television.

Speaker 28 I don't even know what his address is.

Speaker 1 The interrogation went on for some 12 hours with Bonet sticking to his story. The detectives released him with a warning.

Speaker 75 Make no mistake about it.

Speaker 75 If anything else linked you to it, you're done.

Speaker 27 Stick a fork in you.

Speaker 26 And see, that would normally worry me.

Speaker 28 I wasn't there.

Speaker 1 Then two weeks after letting Bonet walk, there was something else, something big.

Speaker 71 Early yesterday morning, I was notified of some additional scientific evidence.

Speaker 71 that linked Mr. Bonet to

Speaker 1 the homicides the prosecutor revealed that a palm print found on the exterior passenger side of the bronco door frame was left there by none other than charles bonet

Speaker 1 investigators had been aware of the palm print for more than four years only now did they know whose it was bonet was hauled back into the interrogation room and the questioning became more confrontational got some explaining to do here charles Your palm print is on that Bronco.

Speaker 33 You're there.

Speaker 33 Now this is the time. This is the place.
This is your last stage that you're going to have to tell us what the hell happened there.

Speaker 33 This is it. This can't be happening.
Charles!

Speaker 1 After hours of denial, Bonet changed his story. Yes, he did know David Camden.
They met playing pickup basketball. Then, in another round of questioning, the story changed and changed again.

Speaker 1 Finally, Bonet put himself at the crime scene.

Speaker 28 The reason why I was there was

Speaker 1 Bonet said David Cam asked him to get an untraceable gun. He said that he was a guy caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Speaker 76 As events started to unfold in the investigation, it became apparent that this case was intertwined between two people.

Speaker 1 Now the prosecutor had a new theory. David Cam did not act alone.
He had a co-conspirator. The ex-cop and the ex-con were each charged with the three killings.
David was outraged.

Speaker 1 He believed he should have been set free. After all, Charles Bonnet's signature was all over the scene.

Speaker 22 He attacks women, defenseless, innocent women. He takes their shoes, their socks.

Speaker 32 He holds guns to their heads and threatens to shoot them in the head.

Speaker 69 You know, all of those things from his previous crimes is exactly what happened to Kim. Why can't they see this stuff?

Speaker 14 You know, they just turn a blind eye to the facts.

Speaker 1 But the prosecutor had a different set of facts.

Speaker 58 We know that the defense has maintained that this is now the killer, that I should dismiss the charges against David Cam. The evidence is not there.

Speaker 1 In January 2006, Charles Bonnet and David Cam stood trial separately in two different courthouses.

Speaker 1 While he wasn't accused of being the shooter, Bonet was found guilty on three counts of murder, the deaths of Kim, Brad, and Jill Cam. He was sentenced to 225 years.

Speaker 1 And the prosecution team rejected any notion that Bonet acted alone. Why? Those tiny specks of blood, they were on David's shirt, but not on Bonet's sweatshirt.

Speaker 58 His shirt does not have high-velocity blood spatter on it.

Speaker 4 So, a former Indiana State trooper is now going to be a co-conspirator with a felon.

Speaker 51 That makes sense.

Speaker 51 His story is the only thing you've got that link him to David Cam.

Speaker 51 There's no phone records. There's no one's ever seen them together.
There's no text messages. There's no smoke signals.
There's nothing between David Cam and Charles Bonet.

Speaker 1 At David Cam's second trial, Bonet was named as the other man at the scene, also charged with the triple murders.

Speaker 1 Otherwise, the case against Cam was pretty much the same, absent the female witnesses the appeals court had thrown out.

Speaker 1 This time, the state focused on the allegation that David molested his five-year-old daughter as a motive for the murders.

Speaker 5 Well, the motive was

Speaker 57 Kimberly was leaving David Cam

Speaker 57 and that she was leaving leaving him because of the child molesting. And he could not let her leave.
He could not let that secret out.

Speaker 28 That was the secret in the Cam household.

Speaker 1 The defense countered, brought in experts to show there was no solid evidence the little girl had even been molested.

Speaker 19 The state's theory of why David murdered his family was purely made up. It was just, it was speculation.

Speaker 1 David Cam had never been charged with sexual molestation, but that didn't stop the prosecutor from closing his case with a big dramatic flourish.

Speaker 19 He took his finger and stuck it in Dave's face and said, you molested your child.

Speaker 1 The jury took four days to reach its verdict.

Speaker 72 Guilty on all three counts. We can tell you that David Cam has now been convicted of the murder of his wife and the murder of his two kids, Brad and Jill.

Speaker 4 Guilty again.

Speaker 11 Guilty again.

Speaker 35 With the same inflammatory evidence, this is just such a heinous accusation.

Speaker 1 But the saga was far from over. David Cam's uncle still refused to retreat.

Speaker 26 So you go to Dave and you say, We tried.

Speaker 51 Yeah, I say, we're not done, dude.

Speaker 73 You gotta hang in there.

Speaker 40 We're not done.

Speaker 1 They certainly weren't done, but prosecutors weren't done either.

Speaker 77 The placement of the sweatshirt led you to believe that David Cam put it there.

Speaker 1 And Charles Bonnet, he was just getting started.

Speaker 28 He wants me to deliver a second handgun.

Speaker 1 Sam Lockhart's mission to clear the name of his nephew, David, continued unabated after Cam and Charles Bonet were both convicted of the murders of David's family.

Speaker 51 Now we've got the killer who killed Kim, Brad, and Jill. We finally got that accomplished.
Now, our next chore, we are still after that.

Speaker 51 We were still after getting Dave Cam another trial.

Speaker 62 You're back to the appeals court again. Right.

Speaker 1 The Indiana Supreme Court heard the appeal. Attorneys Stacey Uliana and Kitty Lyle stayed on the case.

Speaker 19 These crimes are also connected to.

Speaker 1 They argued that the evidence that David molested his daughter was pure speculation and should not have been allowed in the trial.

Speaker 12 There's absolutely no evidence at all that Cam was the perpetrator of that right.

Speaker 1 In 2009, the upper court agreed.

Speaker 30 Convictions reversed.

Speaker 67 Two words. That's all I needed.

Speaker 1 A second victory for the Cam team. The conviction was overturned, and the judges ordered a new trial.

Speaker 18 Statistically, a successful appeal of a first-degree murder charge is a long shot.

Speaker 24 And yet you got it.

Speaker 23 Well, I got it twice.

Speaker 5 That doesn't happen.

Speaker 23 It doesn't happen.

Speaker 12 You know, if you don't believe in something something bigger, you need to really evaluate your spirituality because, you know, man, that was a God thing.

Speaker 1 The third David Cam murder trial underway now in Boone County. In August 2013, more than a dozen years after the murders, David Cam faced his third jury.

Speaker 1 A special prosecutor, Stan Lepko, was appointed to represent the state.

Speaker 21 Here you're going to start the third trial.

Speaker 24 How did you appraise your case when it became yours?

Speaker 77 When I first got it, it was just overwhelming. I've tried a lot of cases over the years, a lot of death penalty cases, murder cases.
I've never tried anything like this.

Speaker 77 I've never seen anything this complicated.

Speaker 1 With no philandering husband, no molesting father, what remained was the theory of the crime that David left the basketball game, killed his family, then went back to play some more.

Speaker 1 Once again, the prosecutor argued that the scene in the garage was staged to look like a sex crime.

Speaker 27 And her pants have been removed.

Speaker 44 Correct.

Speaker 1 Removed after she'd been killed. What's more, the positioning of Kim's body, he argued, was not what you'd expect of a person who'd been shot and fallen.

Speaker 77 Her feet are under the car about roughly 10, 12 inches under the car.

Speaker 63 Her legs were at an angle, which seemed unusual.

Speaker 26 Unusual, how?

Speaker 69 Well, they weren't straight.

Speaker 63 They were at an angle.

Speaker 77 You just wouldn't expect them to be that way.

Speaker 1 And the infamous sweatshirt, the one that once belonged to Charles Bonnet, was also part of the staging, the prosecutor argued.

Speaker 28 The placement of the sweatshirt was incriminating.

Speaker 77 I thought the way it was put there

Speaker 77 led you to believe that David Cam put it there.

Speaker 1 Tucked all too neatly under Brad Cam's body, as though put there on purpose to frame Charles Bonet.

Speaker 1 Remember, no murder weapon was ever found. The heart of the prosecution's case was still that freckling of blood at the bottom of David's shirt.

Speaker 1 Powerful, incriminating evidence, it argued, marking David as the shooter.

Speaker 40 The little girl was seat belted on this side as you're looking in.

Speaker 1 Tom Beville, a bloodstain pattern analyst, was an expert witness for the prosecution.

Speaker 1 In a Bronco similar to the one owned by the Cams, he demonstrated for us where he believes David was wedged inside the car to get those specks of blood on the bottom of his shirt.

Speaker 24 What's a likely posture for the shooter?

Speaker 1 Would have been leaned in somewhat like this this in order to get the correct trajectory for her.

Speaker 62 Now, I noticed that your shooting hand is up pretty high.

Speaker 1 It is.

Speaker 39 Is that an awkward shot?

Speaker 1 It's not necessarily awkward, but we have to go with the physical evidence, and the physical evidence isn't like this. But why so few spots?

Speaker 1 Beville said it's because most of the blowback hit the inside roof of the vehicle.

Speaker 1 Like much of the other evidence, the blood spatter testimony was essentially the same as in the other two trials. What would be enormously different this time was the star witness.

Speaker 1 The jury was going to hear from Charles Bonet himself.

Speaker 1 A huge risk for Prosecutor Levco.

Speaker 21 So you're going to wonder how good this witness Bonet is going to be for you, right?

Speaker 77 Yes. Certainly, his credibility was going to be in question.

Speaker 24 Why put him on the stand then?

Speaker 77 I felt like I didn't have a choice. If I didn't put him on the stand, I suspect they would have.
But also, I thought the jury ought to hear it.

Speaker 1 This is the story Bonet told in court. He said he met David Cam in July 2000 playing basketball in a local park.

Speaker 1 We talked to Bonet in prison.

Speaker 28 It was just a pickup game of basketball, and I didn't know him or really anyone there. I just, I'm fresh out of prison.
You know, the scene is different.

Speaker 1 After the game, he said Cam was bragging, talking smack about how easily he'd beaten Bonet.

Speaker 28 At that point, I just said, well, you know, I may have lost the game, but at least I have my freedom. And he's like, freedom? I was like, yeah, I just got out of prison.

Speaker 28 Cam cam bonet continued then told him he used to be a state trooper at the end of that day did you know him by name no i didn't know his full name until our second chance meeting that meeting was in september bonet said about a week or so before the murders they ran into each other at a convenience store and got to talking in the parking lot the gist of our conversation was about are you employed are you staying out of trouble and then it evolved into well what types of things did you do to get in prison in the first place he was creating his own form of intel.

Speaker 28 He was learning quite a few things about Charles Bonnet.

Speaker 1 Bonet told him he'd been inside for robbery.

Speaker 28 When I slowly started to let him know about some of the things that I did in the past, he asked me, well, are you still able to get untraceable weapons?

Speaker 26 Untraceable.

Speaker 28 That's what it led to. I'm just...

Speaker 73 A clean gun. A clean gun.

Speaker 5 A throwdown gun.

Speaker 28 Something that can't be traced by law enforcement and ballistics.

Speaker 1 So Bonet said he scored a handgun the same day, met David again in a parking lot, and handed over the weapon. He paid Bonet $250.

Speaker 1 But one gun wasn't enough, as Bonet's story goes.

Speaker 28 He wants me to deliver yet a second handgun. And so I followed Mr.
Cam back to his house. I can see visibly exactly where he lives.

Speaker 1 As Bonet tells it, they spoke outside the house for just five minutes. Bonet asked when he should return with the second gun.

Speaker 28 And I'm asking this man, you know, what time? What time should I be back here? Well, why don't you come back on Thursday

Speaker 28 at approximately 7 o'clock, et cetera? So I knew what time to be back.

Speaker 26 So meet me here on Thursday night in the evening, and you'll have some more cash in your pocket.

Speaker 50 Absolutely.

Speaker 1 It was Thursday, September 28th, the evening of the murders.

Speaker 28 I arrived at Mr. Cam's house at approximately 7 o'clock.

Speaker 1 He said he handed over the gun to Cam wrapped in his gray sweatshirt.

Speaker 44 Where's this happening?

Speaker 28 Right outside the garage. So we exchanged pleasantries, and my sole purpose is to simply get the $250 for the second weapon.

Speaker 1 Bonet says, after a few minutes, the Bronco with the wife and kids arrived and pulled into the garage.

Speaker 26 And what happens?

Speaker 28 I hear a little bit of commotion. It just sounds like something's not right.
It sounds like they're arguing. And then all of a sudden, I hear an immediate pop.

Speaker 28 And before I heard the pop, I heard her say no.

Speaker 28 And it was a commanding no, like stop. And then I heard a pop.
Then I heard the word daddy.

Speaker 36 Two more pops followed.

Speaker 17 Did you know what that was?

Speaker 28 It sounded like a handgun.

Speaker 38 So what'd you think?

Speaker 28 I'm thinking that there's...

Speaker 28 This is a crime scene.

Speaker 21 So do you say I gotta get out of here?

Speaker 28 I would have liked to have just left, but as he emerged from the garage and pointed the handgun at me, I was frozen.

Speaker 24 Oh, so now you're a target?

Speaker 50 Absolutely.

Speaker 28 So he needs to kill Charles Bonnet.

Speaker 1 But the gun jammed.

Speaker 26 At that point, Reason says, I'm out of here.

Speaker 28 Well, the thing is, once I realize that your gun doesn't have projectiles in it, now my job is to get you.

Speaker 73 You're going for him.

Speaker 50 Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Now, as Bonet tells it, the scene moved into the garage.

Speaker 28 As I go into the garage, I'm chasing after Mr. Cam.
I heard him say, you did this.

Speaker 28 And I took that as, this is your crime.

Speaker 1 As Cam went inside the house, Bonet says he saw the victims, the wife down by the car door. He remembers her being fully clothed.
Then he says he stumbled.

Speaker 28 I trip over shoes. I remember touching these shoes.
I clearly touched something that is now a part of what will be a murder scene. So yeah, I did pick them up.
I did try to wipe them off.

Speaker 1 Kim's shoes, he placed them on top of the Bronco. Then he looked inside the vehicle and says he saw the two children.
Mindful of leaving DNA and prints, he says he touched none of the bodies.

Speaker 1 Then he says he heard David moving inside the house.

Speaker 28 And it clicked into my head he's going for a weapon. I mean, this guy is a former Indiana State trooper.

Speaker 1 At which point he bolted from the scene.

Speaker 28 Had I stayed there any longer, there's no doubt he would have killed me and he would have just lied and said to his buddies at the Indiana State Police, I came home and I found this black guy.

Speaker 1 After listening to Bonet testify, the defense was ready to pounce.

Speaker 19 That's his story, and it makes absolutely no sense, but it explains away all the evidence that they had against him at the time.

Speaker 19 But what Bonet didn't account for was the DNA that was going to be found and he has no story for that.

Speaker 1 New DNA evidence.

Speaker 79 He absolutely fought with Kim. He touched Jill.

Speaker 38 What will Charles Bonet have to say now?

Speaker 24 Did you do that? Charles Bonet, did you kill that family?

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Speaker 1 The case against David Cam, the defense argued, was as preposterous this time around as it was before.

Speaker 1 Who could possibly buy the prosecution's overly complicated theory that David left the basketball game to kill his family?

Speaker 19 There is absolutely no way he could have left that gym. You have to believe that he knew when he was going to get to sit out.

Speaker 19 He timed it perfectly, so it would be right at the time he was going to meet Charles Bonet and murder his family.

Speaker 19 It is beyond belief what he would have had to have put in place in order for this alibi to be able to do it.

Speaker 45 That sounds like a commando synchronizer watches kind of scenario.

Speaker 19 It's absurd.

Speaker 67 There's absolutely no common sense way he could have pulled it off.

Speaker 1 And Cam had a solid alibi. 11 men had seen him playing basketball from a little after 7 until about 9.20 that night.
There was no one to support any part of the story Bonet had just told.

Speaker 79 There is not one shred of evidence that puts those two people together.

Speaker 1 Richard Cammon was a new face on the defense team.

Speaker 79 And the reason there's nothing there is because it didn't happen.

Speaker 1 The defense insisted Bonet was the sole killer in the garage that night and that back in 2000, investigators ignored evidence pointing to the convicted felon.

Speaker 1 To make that point, the defense called Damon Fay, a veteran homicide detective who now trains police in how to conduct murder investigations.

Speaker 74 I don't like testifying against other cops. I'm very uncomfortable with it.

Speaker 1 Faye recited flaw after flaw in the CAM investigation. The most significant, he said, was the handling of the sweatshirt, Bonet's sweatshirt.

Speaker 74 When a homicide detective actually gets some physical evidence that it's got somebody's name on it and DNA, you hug it.

Speaker 36 You love it.

Speaker 74 It is such a rare event. And they thought of it as an artifact.

Speaker 26 Which in non-legal terms means move on, forget about it.

Speaker 49 This is not a problem.

Speaker 74 It would have changed everything. First of all, within two weeks' tops, they would have had Bonet.

Speaker 1 And Faye pointed out other blunders as well. The heavy reliance on the blood-spattered t-shirt.

Speaker 24 That is the physical evidence against David Camp.

Speaker 74 Of all of the crime scene possibilities, the most misinterpreted is blood spatter. You don't hang the entire case just on the interpretation.
of blood spatter. You've got to have so much more.

Speaker 1 The theory of a staged sex crime, flat out wrong.

Speaker 74 They really never probed out the fact that it could be a voyeur or somebody with a panty fetish or somebody who is just sexually excited at the view of a woman's legs.

Speaker 1 Someone say who fit the profile of Charles Bonet. Big problem.

Speaker 74 Because the suspect that they don't know about and won't know for about five years has complete personality reflected in that crime scene. up to the point of how Kim was found.

Speaker 1 And remember, a Bonet palm palm print had also been found on the Bronco.

Speaker 1 More evidence, the defense said that he was the killer.

Speaker 38 So here we have a 90s-era Ford Bronco.

Speaker 1 Defense expert Eugene Lissio, an engineer who reconstructs crime scenes, showed us how the palm print would have been left by the shooter.

Speaker 83 It really is just as simple as reaching into the vehicle like this to make a shot for Jill. And then for Bradley, you would lean over a bit more and fire a shot.

Speaker 44 this way.

Speaker 37 I noticed that you braced yourself

Speaker 50 here.

Speaker 27 And this is where crime scene techs find a palm print.

Speaker 83 Yes, they did. They found a palm print up in this particular area.
But it makes perfect sense that if you're leaning in, you want to be able to stabilize yourself, especially if you're making a shot.

Speaker 1 And now the defense had fresh scientific evidence that Bonet actually put his hands on two of the victims.

Speaker 69 Bonet's story, of course, was,

Speaker 79 I ran in, I did this, I never touched anybody.

Speaker 5 Clearly not true.

Speaker 1 There is something in the field of DNA analysis called touch DNA. Lab experts use human cells to make an identifying hit on a suspect.

Speaker 1 Touch DNA from Bonet's skin cells was found on Kim Cam's sweater, her underwear, and on her daughter Jill's shirt.

Speaker 79 The DNA conclusively proves that he absolutely fought with Kim, that he touched Jill.

Speaker 1 And the defense hoped its cross-examination of Bonet would be still more proof. Cam had to steal himself to watch Bonet on the stand.

Speaker 27 You're looking at him.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 32 There was no way for me to actually prepare myself for that.

Speaker 22 And it was

Speaker 69 a situation where

Speaker 26 I really had to think about what was at stake in doing what was right in that moment, having to sit there and look at this guy that I knew killed my family and not react.

Speaker 1 The defense said Bonet's story was absurd. For starters, why would an ex-cop ask an ex-con for a gun?

Speaker 19 The police officer doesn't think, well, how can I trust this guy? He's a criminal. And the guy who just got out of prison doesn't smell a rat.

Speaker 67 He doesn't think maybe I'm being set up. It makes absolutely no sense.

Speaker 1 The defense took on Bonet's story in cross-examination. We had some of the same questions when we spoke to him.

Speaker 37 How many versions did it take to get to the story you just told, Charles?

Speaker 64 What, three, four, five times, maybe?

Speaker 46 Yes.

Speaker 28 I finally realized that the more I keep lying, I'm just digging myself deeper and deeper. I'm not going to get out of it.

Speaker 28 And when I did finally start telling the truths about things, I didn't feel comfortable revealing too much too soon because I didn't want to be a part of the case to begin with.

Speaker 28 So once again, I resorted to telling a lot of stories.

Speaker 26 The big picture here, Charles, for a lot of people is it sounds like a crock, that a felon just out of the slammer would hook up with a recently retired state police officer and do this gun exchange.

Speaker 24 It just doesn't seem to make sense.

Speaker 27 It doesn't pass the sniff test.

Speaker 28 There's a lot of things about this case that doesn't make sense.

Speaker 50 If I were you, I would have alarms going off inside my head.

Speaker 65 Here you are on probation.

Speaker 27 How do you know that this former cop is really a former cop and he's not setting you up with a sting?

Speaker 28 Although that did cross my mind and I had concerns about it, there was something about him.

Speaker 28 If you've spent any time with Mr. Cam, he has a way of putting you at ease.
He has a way of making you feel like he's legit and everything's okay. And plus, I didn't care what the gun was for.

Speaker 26 You've provided this former trooper with weapons.

Speaker 17 He was on a special weapons team with the Indiana State Police.

Speaker 18 He was SWAT.

Speaker 62 So theoretically here, this premeditated crime, he's going to trust

Speaker 21 a handgun that's come off the street that he hasn't checked out.

Speaker 73 He's just unwrapped it from the sweatshirt and immediately used it for his business.

Speaker 50 Well, it was.

Speaker 28 It was the gun. Those are questions that I can't possibly answer.
Why did he want me there at the crime scene? We know why, because he wanted me to take the blame for all all of this.

Speaker 1 So as Bonet tells it, the transaction happens. He delivers the gun, hears the gunfire in the garage, and then David Cam tries to shoot him.

Speaker 46 Why don't you just belt right out of there?

Speaker 28 If you point a weapon at me, even on a prison level, if a guy comes at me with a shank, I'm going to get that shank from him.

Speaker 28 And then it's my turn. It's that simple.
I'm just going to put it out there. I can't get in any trouble.
My intent was to kill David Cam that day. You tried to kill me, and now I'm going to kill you.

Speaker 28 But before I had a chance to kill him, I stumbled across this beautiful woman, dead, lifeless

Speaker 28 on the ground.

Speaker 1 Then Bonet said he stumbled over the woman's shoes and took the time to place them on top of the Bronco.

Speaker 24 But then you're down on the floor the way you tell it.

Speaker 13 You've tripped?

Speaker 28 Yeah, I did. I tripped over the shoes.

Speaker 64 And then your emotions are going wild.

Speaker 26 This guy's tried to kill you.

Speaker 27 You're at a crime scene. You're going to stop.

Speaker 64 We have to believe that you can say, oh, shoes, I got to put these now on top of the vehicle, Charles.

Speaker 38 It doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 24 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 28 Here's the thing. I'm wiping the shoes off, and I see

Speaker 28 one little leg or something hanging out the passenger side. I go to investigate to see if there's anyone else in the back of the vehicle.
And when I leaned in to look, I put the shoes on top.

Speaker 28 I don't even remember doing it.

Speaker 1 Doesn't remember doing it. And he says he doesn't know why.

Speaker 28 And I wasn't thinking about why I did that, but I was cognizant and really thinking about the DNA or possible fingerprints from having tripped and touched those shoes.

Speaker 37 But you know that palm print, Charles, is just where you would brace yourself to lean across to shoot at that little boy.

Speaker 28 That's according to defense expert witnesses. You got to understand the prosecution has that same evidence.
They don't see it that way.

Speaker 21 What I'm saying is if you're so concerned about tidying up, why would you be so clumsy as to leave a big old handprint on the vehicle?

Speaker 28 I leaned in to check on the children. What I seen there was horrifying.
I'm not worried about that palm print. I didn't even realize I left a palm print.

Speaker 28 Do you you think that if I hadn't known, I wouldn't have taken the time to wipe it off? I wanted to just get out of there.

Speaker 62 Did you touch any of the victims, Charles?

Speaker 24 No, I did not.

Speaker 1 So how does he explain his touch DNA on Kim and Jill Cam's clothes?

Speaker 28 I've touched David Cam. We've shook hands, and he handled my sweatshirt.
My skin cells are clearly on him, so anything that he touches can be transferred.

Speaker 1 While the defense couldn't tell the jury about Bonet's past, the foot fetch, the armed robberies, we knew the record and asked him about it.

Speaker 62 When people understand your criminal history, the fetishes, what happened in that garage seems to fit your appetites.

Speaker 24 This is this guy's history just played out on a violent scale that he'd never been through before.

Speaker 28 Well, first of all, my history does not consist of killing women, shooting people, period. I've not ever had anything like that in my past.
Yes, I've been in possession of handguns.

Speaker 28 Yes, when I was 20 years old, I did some armed robberies for cash.

Speaker 21 Charles, let me put this to you directly.

Speaker 17 Were you in the garage that night with a gun in your hand, taking control of Kim Kam?

Speaker 60 No, sir.

Speaker 62 Kids started to cry.

Speaker 27 I told you to shut up, shoot the wife when she comes after you?

Speaker 28 Richard Camen's theory is totally wrong. It never happened.

Speaker 24 In your panic, forget the sweatshirt.

Speaker 17 Forget about trophies of the shoes that maybe you were going to take later.

Speaker 62 But for the first time, this sex fetish itch that you have has gotten totally out of control and you've massacred a family.

Speaker 24 Did you do that? Charles Bonet, did you kill that family?

Speaker 28 No, sir. In fact, that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
A guy with a foot fetish kills an entire family just to satisfy his foot fetish in a place where he's never been before.

Speaker 28 It never happened.

Speaker 28 What are you hoping the jury hears today?

Speaker 34 I have no comments.

Speaker 1 With Bonet as the wild card, David Cam's third trial came to an end after nine weeks.

Speaker 12 It's over, but right now, let's wait for the verdict.

Speaker 1 Would the jurors believe the tale they'd heard? The felon duped into a crime scene by the ex-cop.

Speaker 1 For the third time in 13 years, his fate was in their hands.

Speaker 22 I was scared to death.

Speaker 1 Verdict number three.

Speaker 1 Would anyone dare predict what this one would be?

Speaker 20 Everybody kind of had that same feeling, but none of us had the nerve to utter it.

Speaker 1 The jury in David Cam's third trial had the case. For two families, there was nothing to do but wait.
The Ranks, Kim's parents, wanted nothing more than to hear the word guilty again.

Speaker 1 The new evidence had not changed their minds.

Speaker 24 You believe David killed your daughter and kids?

Speaker 52 Yes, I'll never change it.

Speaker 24 Why isn't Bonet's presence enough to explain everything that happened in that garage?

Speaker 4 It just didn't.

Speaker 29 There's just too many other things.

Speaker 53 There's too many stories being told on both sides.

Speaker 50 And,

Speaker 52 you know, I don't believe neither one of them are telling the truth.

Speaker 1 You've gotten word that a verdict has been reached. The jury took 10 hours to reach a verdict.

Speaker 53 I suppose it has to be guilty.

Speaker 52 I mean, I wasn't expecting anything but guilty.

Speaker 1 Prosecutor Stan Levko's glass was half full or better.

Speaker 77 I thought we had a decent chance. I thought it could go either way, but I thought the trial went really well.

Speaker 1 But Kim's mom was worried.

Speaker 29 I was scared because 10-week trial and you're only out 10 hours.

Speaker 29 I had a really bad feeling from the beginning that it was going to be not guilty.

Speaker 1 David, in a holding cell, got ready, shaking violently.

Speaker 69 I literally could not

Speaker 69 button my shirt. or fix my tie and my collar and so on.

Speaker 44 Deputies had to help me.

Speaker 68 His family, the Lockharts, were heartened by a relatively fast deliberation.

Speaker 20 Everybody kind of had that same feeling of

Speaker 20 this might be good, but none of us had the nerve to utter it, you know, because you don't want to say that. Because the hurt, the pain when they say guilty is so devastating.

Speaker 1 Julie was breathless, waiting for just one tiny word.

Speaker 20 I'd been kind of trying to practice in my head, what will it sound like to hear the word not?

Speaker 20 Not, you know, we'd always heard guilty. So I'd kind of

Speaker 20 just fantasized about hearing that word.

Speaker 68 And that's exactly what she and everybody else in the courtroom heard that day.

Speaker 23 The word not, as in not guilty, once, twice, three times.

Speaker 69 You hear the first one and then you hear the second one and you're praying to God you hear the third one.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 14 that's when I lost it.

Speaker 43 You know, knowing

Speaker 22 finally,

Speaker 69 finally the truth has prevailed.

Speaker 69 Justice for Kim and Brad and Jill, for me, for my family,

Speaker 69 and I just fell to pieces.

Speaker 50 Not guilty.

Speaker 22 Not guilty. 13 times three.

Speaker 44 Yes, sir.

Speaker 22 13 years.

Speaker 2 13 years of hell.

Speaker 51 Everybody around me, I luck was crying. Dave was bawling.

Speaker 11 I just sat there.

Speaker 51 I think I was finally saying we've got this thing done.

Speaker 63 finally.

Speaker 1 For the other side, the parents, the grandparents, the verdict was a devastating blow.

Speaker 53 When they said not guilty,

Speaker 53 that's kind of like, it ripped my heart out right there. I mean, like,

Speaker 53 this can't be right. What did these jurors see that the other 24 jurors in the past didn't see?

Speaker 5 You know, he was convicted twice by 24 different people.

Speaker 52 And these 12 people seen something that they didn't see?

Speaker 45 David, can you tell me how you're feeling right now?

Speaker 1 Outside, the cameras were waiting.

Speaker 37 This is complete vindication after 13 horrific years.

Speaker 22 This is a miracle. My situation is a miracle that we are here conducting this interview right now.

Speaker 22 God literally had to move a mountain to make this happen.

Speaker 1 But that mountain would never have moved without dedicated attorneys and Uncle Sam Lockhart.

Speaker 51 There have been a lot of people saying the only reason I'm doing this is because Dave's my nephew.

Speaker 44 Well, that's a big reason, absolutely.

Speaker 51 But I know he's innocent.

Speaker 24 He didn't do it.

Speaker 51 And the only thing I knew to do then was continue to fight until we reached the solution that was proper.

Speaker 1 Finally, the David Camp case, one that had dominated the news in southern Indiana for years, was over.

Speaker 27 Your name will be clean again, but you know, there's still going to be people that are going to point at you and whisper.

Speaker 17 and say that's the guy that got away with killing his father.

Speaker 69 You know what? I can't help those people. If they choose to be ignorant, that's on them.

Speaker 69 I've had 13 years of my life taken away from me, and it's their problem if they choose to be ignorant, and it is a choice.

Speaker 1 For those who knew and loved Kim, Brad, and Jill, there remains a yearning to know what might have been for the wife and mother, for the two young children.

Speaker 48 No telling what Kim might have been, where she could have been, what the kids have been doing.

Speaker 5 We lost all that.

Speaker 48 Dave lost all that.

Speaker 1 David Cam says he'll never get over the pain of what happened in the garage that night.

Speaker 3 The pain becomes a part of you, and you live with it, and it's an element of who I am, you know, and, you know, how I live my life.

Speaker 1 On the day of the verdict, as a security precaution, Sheriff's deputies drove David to a prearranged truck stop and turned him over to his waiting Uncle Sam.

Speaker 24 That was the moment he was really free, wasn't it?

Speaker 51 I think so. I think it finally hit him, and it hit me like

Speaker 51 this guy no longer is in shackles. This guy is with me.
He is now ready to go start his life.

Speaker 35 It's me and one man

Speaker 35 leaving together, heading home.

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