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February 28, 2006

Today would have been Jill’s 11th birthday

By Lisa Hurt Kozarovich The News and Tribune Tue Feb 28, 2006, 02:48 PM EST

• Read more about the David Camm murder trial in tomorrow’s editions of The Tribune and The Evening News.

BOONVILLE — After receiving 22 pages of instructions from the judge presiding over David Camm’s second murder trial, the jury retired to begin deliberating at 9:30 a.m. today.

Shortly afterward, Camm’s sister, Julie Hogue, and his uncle, Sam Lockhart, spoke to the press.

The family, Lockhart said, was putting former Floyd County Prosecutor Stan Faith on notice they intend to consider civil action against him, and possibly others, for their alleged misconduct in the handling of the initial investigation that led to Camm’s arrest.

Faith previously denied the allegations.

During the current trial, Indiana State Police DNA analyst Lynn Scamahorn testified Faith threatened her job and to charge her with obstruction of justice, a felony crime, if she didn’t change her scientific findings in the case.

Five years later the DNA on the sweatshirt was linked to Charles Boney, Camm’s now convicted co-defendant.

Later, Hogue said she was upset that Floyd County Prosecutor Henderson was allowed to argue that Camm had molested his daughter “without a single piece of evidence.”

“Just because Keith Henderson said it happened doesn’t make it true. There’s absolutely no proof of that and I don’t think that prosecutors should just be able to go around making inflammatory statements like that — no one else could do that without getting sued.”

Also Tuesday, Frank and Janice Renn spoke. Janice Renn, Kim Camm’s mother, thanked the prosecutors “on behalf of Kim, Brad and Jill.”

Today, the maternal grandparents noted, would have been Jill’s 11th birthday.

The couple said they’re more convinced than ever that Camm killed their daughter and grandchildren. Still, they’re prepared, Janice Renn said, to move on with their lives if he is acquitted.

Lockhart said the family plans to “take Dave home soon,” but if he is convicted, they intend to continue their intensive fight to free him.

“I’ll spend every penny I have if I have to. I’ll sell my business if I have to ... I’ve already sold some of it off,” said Lockhart, who said he knew Camm was innocent because he was playing basketball with him at the time of the murders.

Camm, a 41-year-old former Indiana State Trooper, is charged in the fatal shootings of his wife Kim, 36, and his children, Brad, 7, and Jill, 5, in the garage of their Georgetown home on Sept. 28, 2000.

The state alleges Camm molested his daughter and then conspired with Charles Boney to kill the family to cover up the crime when it was discovered by his wife.

Camm’s 2002 conviction was overturned in 2004 when a state appeals court found Camm had not received a fair trial due to introduction of his numerous affairs. Boney was convicted in a separate trial earlier this month and sentenced to 225 years in prison.

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