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Not to betray his friend and help someone wrongly accused of a triple murder. and shawn buckner had no reason to help tim hennis. he came home empty handed hoping that buckner would eventually change his mind. the retrial of timothy hennis began on january 27th, 1989, almost four years after the brutal murders of gary eastburn s wife and daughters. the state had a re-trial, but the defense had an entirely different case. we were going to drill him and film him and let him watch it. did you kill these three people? no, i did not kill these people. i have a daughter of my own, and i could not hurt any children at all. did you do this crime? no, i did not. and we felt that if he showed rage or emotion, the jury would say, there, you see, he could get to this point. how does this all make you ....
well, it does not seem like a lot, until you sit there and time it. we had the jury sit there and time it to see how long it was. it was the longest 3 1/2 minutes. why would the killer wait 3 1/2 minutes until someone sees him. one of the jurors said that they got in the jury room and laughed at her. and now it was time for richard to go after the state s star witness pat cone. after some soul searching shawn buckner agreed to testify against his old friend. he said that pat cone was extremely drunk that night, and in addition to that, he had doubts about what he saw. and patrick had told shawn buckner that he felt like he was sending an innocent man to prison. but richardson knew he had to answer one last question. in the back of their minds, the jury is saying that the kid saw something, and if it weren t your client, who would it be? and so the next witness the back doors opened and everybody turned around and the prosecutor said, who is that? that is as clos ....
And sure enough, the wallet belonged to a fellow named shawn buckner. it belonged to a friend of pat cone, the star witness. the letter called his testimony into question. that letter called his testimony into doubts. it told his fiance about doubts, and to the point they wrote each other a letter about it. so richardson flew to louisiana where he was in training with the air force, but when he got there, buckner closed the door in his face. he did not want to get involved. he had to decide whether or not to betray his friend and help someone wrongly accused of a triple murder. and shawn buckner had no reason to help tim hennis. he came home empty handed hoping that buckner would eventually change his mind. ....
Help free someone who was accused of murder. it was a tough one. shawn buckner had no reason to help tim hennis. richardson came home empty handed, hoping buckner would eventually change his mind. the retrial of timothy hennis began on february 27th, 1989. almost four years after the brutal murders of gary eastburn s wife and daughters. the state went into a replay of trial one. meanwhile the defense had an entirely different case. this time hennis would testify. we just really drilled him. filmed him and let him watch it. did you kill these three people? no, i did not kill these people. i have a daughter of my own and i could not hurt any children at all. did you do this crime? no, i did not. we felt if tim showed rage or emotion the jury would say, look, there you can see he can get to this point. how does all of this make you feel? extremely upset and angry. ....
Letter in it. and we kept hearing that the letter said tim didn t do it. you keep hearing rumors like that. billy goes to the sheriff s department and has to pretend he s investigating another case because if he let on he was investigating this case it would have set off all kinds of bells and whistles. sure enough the lost wallet belonged to a fellow named shawn. shawn buckner was a close friend of pat cone. the prosecutor s star witness. the alert in the the letter in buckner s lost wallet called cone s testimony into question. that letter talks about pat s doubts. pat kind of hoped shawn buckner and his fiance about his doubts to the point where they wrote each other a letter about it. richardson flew to louisiana where buckner was training in the air force when he got there buckner closed the door on his face. he didn t want to get involved. shawn buckner didn t know whether to betray his friend and ....