poof? like, yeah, you know, a poof sound. it was the bow and then i turned around quick and my wife was already on the floor. did you hear her say anything? no. just a groan sound. as for that friend, sue cotton, who testified earlier that she d lectured ken about getting rid of the crossbow did you tell her, i don t want to just throw it away or something like that. there was never a conversation with her. she just flat-out lied to everybody here. in fact, said creamer, he thought his wife had already given the crossbow away. but surely the neighbor, a man with an impeccable reputation was telling the truth when he said he saw evidence that creamer staged the crime scene to make it look like an accident. no, said creamer, that was not the truth. the neighbor must have been seeing things. did you move the crossbow at
remarks who so confused katz was a woman, anna. the shooter, her husband, the location of this unfortunate mishap, the two-car garage at the front of the creamer s comfortable suburban home. she said it was an accident and he was trying to load it or something and the thing went off and it graced her evidently. she said, it s nothing. i ll put a band-aid on it. don t worry about it, it s fine. the whole business was little more than embarrassing. anna said she didn t want to go to the hospital. it was kenny who apparently panicked, called 911, there was a rush to the emergency room to treat a nick on the side of her breast, a few stitches. but, of course, on that 911 call, authorities heard the word crossbow. so down here at the hospital, kenny found himself in the company of virginia beach s finest. then he got arrested. and then she wouldn t press charges. it was ridiculous. she said, he didn t try to shoot
crossbow went off inside a bag. maybe that made it an accident after all. we had the bag and we had the weapon, and we were trying to figure out desperately how could this weapon be in the bag and have done what it did. and none of the positions this bag was in made any sense whatsoever, with the weapon inside of it. it didn t make sense. we couldn t figure it out. we couldn t find a good exit hole. there was no rip in it. there was no hole for the arrow. it didn t make sense. so if it couldn t have been an accident the second time, what about the first? this sounds like that to me already he s already planning something. so now jury members realize they had formed strong opinions about mr. creamer. i just don t put any stock in anything he says. you know, i don t trust the guy. and once they decided that about ken creamer, members of the jury began to look at the marriage with anna in a whole new way.
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 hurt my and i love my son! of course, ken creamer was exactly right, this officer was very suspicious of him. i don t know! anna would put a loaded crossbow i don t know! i don t know! okay. kenny, kenny, you got to calm down. i can t. ken creamer was the picture of a grief-stricken man, but his answers, decided police, just didn t add up. what happened to ken s wife anna simply couldn t have been an accident, could it? they arrested him, charged him with murder. and what about the long, slow business of collecting evidence for a trial? detectives say what happened yesterday was no accident. this time, they say, it was a homicide. they put the boy into foster care briefly and then he was taken away to live with ana s relatives. ken was denied bail and took up
and how did it land? we did have the weapon in our jury room, and some of the men tried to get a feel for how it loaded up and then it takes a lot of strength to load that. but as they looked at the evidence and how the arrow that killed the woman, it went in straight. as they re-read ken creamer s testimony, his memory of the careless toss, the bag hitting the fridge, the loaded crossbow going off it physically was not possible. the physics of it disallowed it. then there was the neighbor, randall howes, whose memory suggested that creamer staged the scene, to make it look more like an accident. what persuaded you he was a credible can witness? his character on the witness stand. just an upright good man. yes. could he have been mistaken, do you think? no, i don t think there was any doubt. he told the truth. still, creamer said the