Murder On Lockhart Road
The David Camm Case
Bizarre
Twists And Evidence Keep Turning Case On Its
Head
KVS wrapped production with
48 Hours
for a CBS 2 hour season special.
(CBS) This
broadcast first aired on Dec. 9, 2006. It was updated on
June 14, 2007.
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Marcie
Spencer (Producer)
& correspondent
Richard Schlesinger.
Marcie is amazingly cool. She's got her stuff "very"
together.
These shots are from the IU Bloomington campus.
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(CBS) Richard
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48 Hours Investigates
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CBS Evening News
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innocent Americans behind bars, marriage and divorce in
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48 Hours: "Death by Midnight,"
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48 Hours: "Searching for a Cure,"
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Between takes at the Indiana
University student union bldg.
A large room with soft lighting and dark wood made a
great looking set.
The windows and lights on chains were a big plus.
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Rigging
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Outside of this large window, Ken Smith placed some HMI's
with blue gels to light up the large tree for the night
shot.
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Ken
Smith - our director of photography and lighting director
Audio
and playback
Lighting is critical and Ken gives it that great look.
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Checking
the lighting
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Becky (my wife & jib assist) , Richard and
Jack.
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Jack
(my production assistant) & Ken Smith the lighting
director.
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Loaded & ready to go...let's roll.
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High ceilings with a nice light to do a "drop
shot" to Richard
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Before a take. Notice in this night shot how the
tree outside the
window was lit to enhance the movement of the jib and
gives a
great sense of depth. (nice lighting Ken)
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Teaching my new friend Gavin, the finer points
of operating a Jib.
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Cassie and friend (IU psychology
students...really!)
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(CBS) David
Camm, a former Indiana state trooper, was found guilty in
2002 of shooting his wife and their two young children
execution-style inside the family SUV parked in their
garage two years earlier. But the two-year legal drama
didn't end with Camm's conviction. In fact, the
conviction was later overturned and, five years after the
murders, another suspect entered the picture. Was this
ex-state cop framed by a new suspect? Or had they worked
together all along?
Correspondent
Richard Schlesinger examines
the still unfolding drama on
48 Hours, this
Saturday, Dec. 9 at a special time, 9 p.m. ET/PT.
"I want my family back, I did not do this," Camm said
through tears.
Camm also said he had an alibi that placed him at a
basketball game where 11 other players recall seeing him
the very night and time of the murders: Sept. 28, 2000,
approximately between 7 p.m. and 9:20 p.m.
48 Hours' Schlesinger
tests the prosecution's theory that Camm may have been
able to slip out of the basketball game to commit the
crimes. Driving the actual alleged route,
48 Hours determined
that seven minutes was all the time Camm would have had
to kill his entire family and get back on the court to
keep his alibi intact.
There was also the issue of evidence at the crime scene
that never pointed to Camm: a foreign palm print on the
SUV and an unknown grey sweatshirt with foreign DNA and a
name written in the collar — "Backbone" — the
way a child's camp clothes might be labeled.
Despite Camm's consistent assertion of innocence, an
alibi and unexplained evidence at the scene, just three
days after the deaths of 35-year-old Kim, 5-year-old
Jill, and 7-year-old Brad, Camm was arrested and
ultimately convicted of their murders.
When the Indiana State Appeals Court overturned the
conviction 2½ years later, Camm hoped he might be a free
man. But the story wasn't even close to being over.
Camm readied himself for the second trial, and the DNA on
that suspicious sweatshirt was finally tested, as was the
palm print. In the late afternoon of Feb. 14, 2005, the
databank of convicted felons produced a hit.
Who did that DNA belong to — and what did it mean
for the case against Camm?
Produced By Marcie Spencer
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