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With it. i said, okay, why don't you disassemble it, break it apart so that nobody could use it? he said, you can't disassemble a crossbow. i said, why don'you take it to the police station? you can take to it the police station and 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 al...

So mystically deadly as if the fear of it has come down through centuries in our genes and attached itself to a defendant named ken creamer. >> january 8th, 2006. early morning. sunday. >> a case that seemed to call for a passionate closing from prosecutor patrick connolly. >> the defendant took this crossbow, and he took this arrow. this crossbow bolt. he loaded it, and with it in there and his wife on a treadmill, he stood behind her and fired it directly into her back with malice, with premeditation, with deliberation, and he did it willfully. and you, each and every one of

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>> here's your timeline. september 2005 the defendant buys the crossbow. less than 30 days later anna creamer takes an arrow to her chest. and she goes to the hospital. less than 90 days after that, she takes an arrow in the back, and this time she goes to the morgue. >> had to be murder, said the prosecutor. >> that shows that the arrow basically comes straight in. >> look how the arrow went straight into her back and almost right through her, said the medical examiner, as if it was carefully aimed from close range. >> i was able to run my hand over the skin of her chest, and i could feel the...

Still, that prosecution evidence was strong. the firearms expert, for example. >> in my examination of the 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 test it 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. what did he know about a crossbow? so how, asked the defense, could anyone r...