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the rest of his life. like it or not, tim is our client and if he dies, we will live with it. in the years that follow, the hennis case was the textbook case of wrongful prosecution. scott whisnant spoke about the case, and it was adapted into a tv movie. not everybody sitting in prison is guilty. north carolina now has a commission that actually has released a number of innocent people. despite all of the attention to hennis acquittal, the eastburn s murders would go unsolved for 16 years until 2005 when scott whisnant spoke about the case at a criminology seminar, and he spoke at a seminar with larry fayetteville was in the audience. there were potentially other evidence out there.
noted that there was a letter in it. and the letter said that tim didn t do it. and you were hearing rumors like that. and billy goes to the sheriff s department and he has to pretend that he is investigating another case, because if it was this case, it would have set off bells and whistles. and sure enough, the wallet belonged to a fellow named shawn buckner. it belonged to a friend of pat cone, the prosecution s star witness. the letter called his testimony into question. that letter called his testimony into doubts. it told his fiance about doubts, and to the point they wrote each other a letter about it. so richardson flew to louisiana where he was in training with the air force, but when he got there, buckner closed the door in his face. he did not want to get involved. he had to decide whether or not to betray his friend and help someone wrongly accused of a triple murder. and shawn buckner had no reason to help tim hennis.
that the prosecutors knew exactly who john raupaugh was. the state basically hid him from us. and then the attorneys told the judge what they discovered about the pro cougs cougs s conduct. they had him bring the jacket and the hat and they had taken it from him, and they had put it in one the trunk of one of the detective s cars, and returned it to him after the trial. fr and that is the type of evidence that could have tilted the evidence in his original trial. and we were plain mad at that case. you get mad enough you go another way. we had sat there in the courtroom to thinking that he had been guilty to not sure that the jury will not find him guilty, to then they will find
other people not interviewed or other forms of evidence. well, if he is innocent, who did it? the state of north carolina did not pursue it for 17 years, and so why didn t they try to find out who it was. somebody was stalking that woman for weeks. mrs. eastburn was writing her husband saying somebody is out there following me. i don t like it. what do i do about it? why isn t that being looked at? who does it lead to? after the evidence was discussed, then he approached him privately. he said, i just want you to know that the way they investigated this case 20 years ago, we re not like that any more. someone should be investigating this case. it should be solved now. technology is improved. that s how we left it. in fact, trotter had been assigned by the sheriff s case office to review cold cases. office to review cold case we had over 100 unsolved