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Maybe I'm just hanging out in the wrong places (or the right ones depending on your personal preferences), but I just don't ever hear any crossbow references in my world but here are two separate issues with the medieval weapon that happened recently in Illinois.
Involuntary residence here in the virginia beach county jail. it was more than a year later when police, still preparing their case, mind you, asked neighbor randall howes for another interview. >> they had the pictures, crime scene photographs that i had not seen. >> but now he saw something very disturbing. and right then and there randall howes knew he was about to play another important role in ken creamer's life. >> so i went, uh-oh. this means probably that my testimony will be key. >> and randall howes was absolutely right. a trial begins and the prosecution tries to prove that what h...
Everything seemed very normal. >> and remember this man? creamer friend and jeweler, robert katz. >> a loving, caring family. >> and his wife, charlene. >> such a loving family. they were very, very close. >> as for that first crossbow incident, the one that injured anna, well, she herself said it was an accident, the teacher testified. >> she laughed about it. told me what happened and just -- that's about it. she was very lighthearted about the whole situation. >> as for those insurance policies, yes, they totaled over $1 million, but he had been an insurance agent, remember? those amounts w...
>> and there it was. the gotcha in the prosecution's case. here was an extremely credible witness, a military officer, whose memory strongly suggested that when howes stepped outside the garage that day to talk to the police, ken creamer still inside, moved that crossbow, staged the scene to make it look more like an accident. powerful evidence. assuming the jury would decide to trust neighbor howes' military-trained memory and that forensic firearm's expert's evaluation of the crossbow. but would they? ken creamer takes the stand. would jurors trust him? >> i heard a poof sound, and i turne...
Well. >> the boy's fifth grade teacher. >> got along great, great hostesses. everything seemed very normal. >> and remember this man? creamer friend and jeweler, robert katz. >> a loving, caring family. >> and his wife, charlene. >> such a loving family. they were very, very close. >> as for that first crossbow incident, the one that injured anna, well, she herself said it was an accident, the teacher testified. >> she laughed about it. told me what happened and just -- that's about it. she was very lighthearted about the whole situation. >> as for those insurance policies, yes, they totaled o...