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>> exactly. the right height also, the right height, the right angle. and i can tell you, if i was going to murder someone with a crossbow, i'd darn make sure it goes in on an angle. >> creamer wrapped a white towel now reddened with blood around the fatal wound on his wife's back. >> so he would get down and just -- i said affectionately, you know, just very caringly rearrange it and he would say, where's the ambulance. i need help. this was supposed to be a gift for a friend. it wasn't supposed to be here. then he would start to cry. >> good evening. our top story at 6:00, a bizarre death in...

Station. you can take it to the police station and you can 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 creamers kept policies for heart attacks, for cancer, even for their dog, about $1 million in all. enough for murder? but motive wasn't at the heart of the prosecution's case. rather it was two witnesses who claimed they had evidence to show it couldn't have been an acc...

>> i saw anna laying there facedown with an arrow square in her back. >> but the true star of the case against ken creamer was the next-door neighbor. that retired naval commander, randall howes. >> ken is just kind of babbling, making noise or whatever, and saying, we need help, we need help now. >> remember, howes told us he saw something in the garage that jumped out at him much later. a detail about to assume a huge importance. as he stood there near anna's body, he testified, he was scanning the room, looking for that crossbow. >> on the far side of the refrigerator there was a cardboard ...

Me. come on, it was an accident. end of conversation, and he was released. >> they bought the crossbow together for recreation anna told them, and both she and ken had tried it out, but after that close call, they were getting rid of it. >> he was giving it to his wife to give to one of the other teachers she worked with and, you know, get rid of it. >> but, of course, they couldn't have any idea back then what would soon happen to that crossbow, and their good friends, the creamers, especially, said their friends, when they thought about what lovely people the creamers were. what a loving cou...

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 didn't testify 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 kind that fired bullets. but did he know for sure about a crossbow, so how, asked the defense, could anyone rely on this expert's opinion? time for the defense to make its own case with some courtroom drama. ...