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With it. i said, okay, why dont you disassemble it, break it apart so that nobody could use it? he said, you cant disassemble a crossbow. i said, why donyou take it to the police station? you can take to it the police station and just drop it off there. and he said -- he started to laugh. >> could such a precise memory 2 1/2 years later be trusted completely? that would become an issue. still, two shootings less than three months apart. perhaps insurance was the motive, said the prosecution. the...

So mystically deadly as if the fear of it has come down through centuries in our genes and attached itself to a defendant named ken creamer. >> january 8th, 2006. early morning. sunday. >> a case that seemed to call for a passionate closing from prosecutor patrick connolly. >> the defendant took this crossbow, and he took this arrow. this crossbow bolt. he loaded it, and with it in there and his wife on a treadmill, he stood behind her and fired it directly into her back with malice, with premed...

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>> heres your timeline. september 2005 the defendant buys the crossbow. less than 30 days later anna creamer takes an arrow to her chest. and she goes to the hospital. less than 90 days after that, she takes an arrow in the back, and this time she goes to the morgue. >> had to be murder, said the prosecutor. >> that shows that the arrow basically comes straight in. >> look how the arrow went straight into her back and almost right through her, said the medical examiner, as if it was carefully ai...

Still, that prosecution evidence was strong. the firearms expert, for example. >> in my examination of the crossbow, i found it to be in excellent mechanical operating condition, showing very little wear from very little use. >> the crossbow, he testified, simply could not have fired without someone pulling the trigger. but the expert only hit the weapon, he didnt test it by throwing it, which is what ken creamer said he had done. by the way, the defense, j.j. mason was an expert in guns, the ki...

I buy my wife jewelry, whatever she wants. >> im asking you for the investigation, ken. >> i didnt -- >> you need to relax. >> i mean, i love my wife so much. >> i know you do. >> why would i -- i would never do anything to my wife. and my son. i love my son. >> of course, ken creamer was exactly right, this officer was very suspicious of him. >> i dont know! >> anna would put a loaded crossbow -- >> i dont know! i dont know! >> okay. kenny, kenny, you got to calm down. >> i cant. >> ken creamer...

Work. so kim saw her, well, she can explain where. >> i started a bunco group about eight years ago. >> whats a bunko group? >> bunko is like a dice game. its where a bunch of women get together and you talk stuff about the husbands and stuff, you know? >> thats how kim heard the story, from anna herself. that the first incident was purely an accident, which happened when her son, not her husband, handed her the crossbow. >> she didnt grab it quick enough, and the bow hit and went off. >> so she...

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>> yes, sir. >> you can have a seat, sir. >> once you did that, then what happened? >> i heard a -- a poof sound. >> poof? >> like, yeah, you know, a poof sound. it was the bow. then i turned around quick and my wife was already on the floor. >> did you hear her say anything? >> no. just like a groan sound. >> as for that friend, sue cotton, who testified earlier that shed lectured ken about getting rid of the crossbow -- >> did you tell her, i dont want to just throw it away or something like t...

>> was that blue paper bag in front of the refrigerator, as it is in that picture when you went into the garage with mr. creamer? >> no, it wasnt. >> and there it was. the gotcha in the prosecutions case. here was an extremely credible witness, a military officer, whose memory strongly suggested that when howes stepped outside the garage that day to talk to the police, ken creamer still inside moved that crossbow, staged the scene to make it look more like an accident. powerful evidence. assumin...