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Dateline recounted the events surrounding the death of David Camm’s family on September 28, 2000. However, the case became more twisted when David was charged with the murder of his whole family.
As depicted in Dateline, the accusations did not stop at one time. He had to go on trial twice and spend thirteen years in prison before being exonerated of the criminal case. In this article, we have shared the complete timeline of David Camm’s wrongful convictions and trials.
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Dateline: A complete timeline of David Camm's wrongful conviction and trial, revisited
1) David Camm was arrested for killing his own family
On September 28, 2000, Camm’s wife, Kim, was shot dead in their garage. The horror didn’t stop there, as later, their children, Bradley and Jill, were also shot dead. David came home at night around 9:30 p.m. and found his family slaughtered in the garage.
While he made a public plea for the murderer to come forward, he became the suspect and was arrested for murdering his own family on October 1, 2000.
2) David Camm’s first trial and conviction
As reported by Dateline, on January 14, 2002, David’s first trial began. The prosecutors believed that David killed his own family due to his cheating nature and the blood stains that were found on his shirt. David told the court that the blood splattered on his shirt after he tried to resuscitate his son.
Further, David also brought eleven alibis, the men with whom he was playing basketball the evening his family was killed. However, the prosecutors refuted his claims of being innocent and claimed that he might have gone home, killed his family, and joined the game again without anyone noticing.
However, the alibis did not help David’s case, as on March 17, 2002, the jury found him guilty and sentenced him to prison for 195 years.
3) The Indiana Court of Appeals overturns David’s conviction
On August 10, 2004, David’s efforts to prove his innocence got a chance when his appeal for a retrial was accepted, and his previous conviction was overturned, citing that the mention of David’s infidelity might have led the jury to convict him, and it was a biased judgment.
4) Charles Boney was arrested and convicted of the murders
According to Dateline, several things were overlooked during David's first conviction. The investigators failed to examine a grey sweater found at the scene, even after David claimed it was not his. Later, in 2005, a serial convict named Charles Boney’s DNA matched the sweater.
As reported by Dateline, Boney had a foot and shoe fetish. Therefore, a detail at the crime scene, the removal of Kim’s socks and shoes, was interpreted as possible evidence linking Boney. Additionally, Boney’s fingerprints matched an unknown print found on the car.
Later, in January 2006, Boney was found guilty and sent to prison for 225 years.
5) David Camm’s second trial and conviction
After Boney was convicted of murder, the prosecutors then took a different angle. They theorized that David might not have murdered his family but conspired to kill them. On January 17, 2006, David’s second trial began, and this time he was accused of s*xually abusing his five-year-old daughter, Jill, which gave him a plausible motive to commit the crime.
Boney also added to this claim that he only delivered the gun, and David killed his family with it. According to Dateline, David was convicted for the second time on March 3, 2006.
6) David Camm’s third trial and exoneration
Since there was a lack of evidence of David’s alleged s*xual abuse of Jill, he was given another opportunity to prove his innocence when an appellate court overturned his previous conviction. After thirteen years, on August 9, 2013, David’s third trial began.
This time, the appellate court hired a new prosecutor after learning that the previous prosecutor, Keith Henderson, was planning on writing a book on the case and monetizing it. While Boney still claims that it was David who killed his own family, Boney’s DNA was found on all the victims. He claimed he only touched Kim’s shoes and the car, making his statements lies.
On October 24, 2013, David was finally found not guilty, with evidence suggesting Boney to be the real killer. He later sued and settled his case against Floyd County and Charles Boney.
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