http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2010/04/ap_hennis_death_sentence_041510/
shareI am so happy to hear that this ordeal is over and I believe the correct person is behind bars. I have watched Innocent Victims several times and I think it's one of the best mini-series to date.
All the actors did a great job and I am so happy that Ben Browder was part of this production. He did an excellent job portraying Gary Eastburn.
And "TIM" deserves it. A total stranger would have never killed the two little girls but he did it because he met them two days earlier when he came to get their dog that was up for adoption and knew the 3 and 5 year old could say it was "the man who took our dog".
Sick son of a bitch.
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It was hilarious in the 20/20 episode when the former defense attorney said he still didn't believe he was guilty because the DNA evidence could have been cross-contaminated from other evidence in the his file. How? How would his sperm have been in the file in the first place? Did he ejaculate on the box?
And the only thing his defenders could say is he must be innocent because he served in the military for a long time after that and never was suspected of another crime. Now that is some solid proof. People in the military could never kill someone. And nobody ever just commits murder one time in their life. The entire reason the term 'serial killer' was coined is because they needed a phrase to describe the INCREDIBLY RARE (less than 1%) killer who has more than one killing incident in their lifetime. But this also won't sway his defenders, because they have that all important GUT feeling that trumps science. Imbeciles.
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He can't claim consensual sex now when he denied ever having sex with her in the past. His story changes according to the evidence...how convenient...
sharePlus, there were two vaginal swabs taken from the murder victim, sent to two different labs, and both samples matched Timothy Hennis. That pretty much blows the "cross-contamination" theory out of the water. And for the defense attorney who claimed that the matter under the fingernails of the mother and daughter didn't match Tim Hennis--well, the samples were too small to test. His lawyer needs to quit lying.
shareI'n finally watching the full 20/20 episode of this case. I remember catching the end of it several years ago and reading that Hennis was tried in JAG court and convicted.
It is so crazy to think I believed in his innocence after this mini-series. The loveable John Corbett, playing a man who seemed to be railroaded, and later was exonerated by a great defense? It was powerful.
To later learn Hennis was guilty and then rightfully ended up in prison again (thanks to new DNA testing and a way around double jeopardy with the JAG trial) was such a shock. The poor Eastburn family has been through so much.