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The person who raped and slaughtered her and her children. and that is timothy hennis'. but the state lab said that the dna would be mixed up, and they were mixing up the samples and almost put an innocent guy in prison.
The jury announced the verdict, not guilty on all counts. >> we just broke down and started crying, because i knew what had they had been through. and next to marrying my wife and the birth of my children, that is probably the happiest day of my life. >> knowing what they had been through, it is a tremendous, tremendous load off of my shoulders. >> the jurors came out, and they were adamant that they needed to reinvestigate the case, and quit picking on the guy. >> why were they bothering this poor man and has he not suffered enough? talking about hennis, and hasn't he suffered enough?
In 2010, timothy hennis went on trial for the third time for the murders of katy eastburn and her daughters. but a scandal rocked the state lab that identified hennis' dna, the lab had been skewing results to help prosecutors. >> the woman who handled the sample in the '80s got in trouble for mixing up some dna samples in another case, and almost put an innocent guy in prison. >> they didn't do a good job of preserving the evidence and three people had been arrested for evidence tampering. >> hennis' lawyers asked for a postponement to investigate the lab, but the judge refused. >> meanwhile, ...
Been tricking me and pressuring me, and i picked out the right guy. >> finally, prosecutors presented a surprise witness. a woman who said that two days after the murder, she saw the killer using katy eastburn's stolen bank card. >> and then they produced a witness that said the killer used the bank card. >> and she said, i did not tell the truth the first time, because it was a tall white man with a mustache, a blond headed guy, and he got into the tiny white car. that is the guy who used it before i did. and pointed right to tim hennis, and that is who was sitting right there. >> after she t...
>> and pat is not a strong-willed person, and nice guy, andon't understand me, but he got into trouble there, but it was minor things. >> and still, richardson was not sure he could convince a jury that cone had lied about seeing hennis, until a new piece of evidence was found. literally lying on the sidewalk.