enough. scott cannon was charged with three murders. if convicted, facing the death penalty. when his trial began here at the polk county oregon courthouse in january of 2000, the heart of the prosecution s case was the theory that scott was the only person at the scene who could have committed the crime. two witnesses who, it turns out, were making a drug delivery that day, testified that as they arrived shortly after 3:30 p.m., cannon met them outside the mobile home and acted strangely, discouraged the two from going inside and then followed them off the property in his van. then the prosecution s star witness sealed the deal. remember the estate owner, bimla boyd? she said that right after cannon s van left, she saw smoke coming from the trailer. she had gone down, put out the fire, discovered jason kinser s
the suspect? this time, the estate owner herself, bimla boyd. what do all these deaths have in common? well, the owner, bimla boyd. that local investigative reporter, eric mason, was now covering a new murder case. the case of bimla boyd. all of a sudden, at 5909 orchard heights road, the same address, there s this shooting. it s my understanding she has been arraigned. bimla boyd had gone from witness in one murder to suspect in another. who was bimla boyd and what was the story behind this latest killing on the estate? the reporter began digging. here s what he found. bimla boyd was then 46 years old, born in fiji, a single mother of three who had come to america two decades before. a devout jehovah s witness who
and they just ignored other evidence that was just very overwhelming pointing to a whole cast of other characters. but if scott cannon didn t kill the three victims, then who did? that unknown hispanic looking man whom cannon claimed was inside the mobile home? estate owner turned convicted killer bimla boyd? or someone else? no one would listen. first, mason, the reporter turned private eye, revisited the scene of the murder. he found this woman. she lives at the bottom of the road leading to the house on the hill. we were standing at the bottom of the hill down here. irene morrow told the private eye that on the day of the murders in 1998, bimla boyd did not stay on the property the entire afternoon as boyd had told detectives. at one point, she drove down the driveway in such a hurry that she almost ran over morrow s husband, who had gone out to get the mail.
evidence that was just very overwhelming pointing to a whole cast of other characters. but if scott cannon didn t kill the three victims, then who did? that unknown hispanic looking man whom cannon claimed was inside the mobile home? estate owner turned convicted killer bimla boyd? or someone else? no one would listen. first, mason, the reporter turned private eye, revisited the scene of the murder. he found this woman. she lives at the bottom of the road leading to the house on the hill. we were standing at the bottom of the hill down here. irene morrow told the private eye that on the day of the murders in 1998, bimla boyd did not stay on the property the entire afternoon as boyd had told detectives. at one point, she drove down the driveway in such a hurry that she almost ran over morrow s husband, who had gone out to get the mail. when she saw us, she was visibly shaken.
news. i said yeah, what s up. he said that gal that testified against you killed somebody. this is scott cannon. you can imagine his surprise when he heard the news that the woman who had been the star witness against him was now a convicted killer herself. what do you now know about bimla boyd that you didn t know at your trial? looks like she s not afraid to kill people. but would the latest death on what became known as murder mountain make any difference in cannon s case? when we met him in april 2009, he had been behind bars for more than a decade, losing every appeal he had ever filed, and he was still claiming that he did not kill jason kinser, susan osbourne and celesta graves. what do you most want people to know? wrong guy s in prison. are you a killer? not a killer. it s hard to say that, isn t it?