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Different this time was the star witness. the jury was going to hear from charles boney himself. a huge risk for prosecutor levco. >> so you gotta wonder how good this witness boney is gonna be for you, right? >> yes. certainly his credibility was gonna be in question. >> why put him on the stand then? >> i felt like i didn't have a choice. if i didn't put him on the stand i suspect they would have but also i thought the jury oughtta hear it. >> reporter: this is the story yoany told in court. he said he met david camm in july 2000 playing basketball in a local park. we talked to boney in pris...

>> i felt like i didn't have a choice. if i didn't put him on the stand i suspect they would have but also i thought the jury oughtta hear it. >> reporter: this is the story that boney told in court. he said he met david camm in july 2000 playing basketball in a local park. we talked to boney in prison. >> reporter: it was just a pickup game of basketball and i didn't know him or, really, anyone there. i just -- i'm fresh out of prison, you know, the scene is different. >> reporter: after the game he said camm was bragging, "talking smack" about how easily he'd beaten boney. >> and at that poi...

Crimes, and in time, his attacks became more violent. he began threatening women at gunpoint. one incident involved three coeds. >> he had been watching them and one night, just walked into their apartment, held them at gunpoint to their head, took them out, kidnapped them to the car. luckily, somebody saw him with the gun leading the women out, called bloomington police department. >> reporter: he pleaded guilty again and was sentenced to 20-years in prison for armed robbery, but was released after serving only seven- years. by july 2000, three months before the camm murders, he was out on pa...

Luckily, somebody saw him with the gun leading the women out, called bloomington police department. >> reporter: he pleaded guilty again and was sentenced to 20-years in prison for armed robbery, but was released after serving only seven years. by july 2000, three months before the camm murders, he was out on parole and the defense maintains he still had the old compulsion. >> kim camm fit the profile. >> yes. he -- has a foot fetish and so when they thought at first that it was not a sex crime, we kept saying, well, not everybody targets the same place in sex crimes. >> reporter: kim camm had...

Then? >> i felt like i didn't have a choice. if i didn't put him on the stand i suspect they would have but also i thought the jury oughta hear it. >> reporter: this is the story that boney told in court. he said he met david camm in july 2000 playing basketball in a local park. we talked to boney in prison. >> reporter: it was just a pickup game of basketball and i didn't know him or, really, anyone there. i just -- i'm fresh out of prison, you know, the scene is different. >> reporter: after the game he said camm was bragging, "talking smack" about how easily he'd beaten boney. >> and at tha...