What kind of father could shoot his children? She’d drag herself out of bed to check, but the stoop was always empty.Īt first, Kim’s parents couldn’t believe their son-in-law was capable of murder. For months after, Janice would jolt awake, swearing she heard the doorbell. At the front door were Camm’s uncles with the news. In New Albany, Kim’s parents, Frank and Janice Renn, heard the doorbell ring at about 11 p.m. Camm’s siblings found their mother on the ground, rocking back and forth, clutching photos of Brad and Jill to her chest, crying “my babies” over and over. When they went to tell Camm’s parents, Donald and Sue Camm, they already knew. When he couldn’t save his son, Camm ran inside and called his old Indiana State Police post.Ĭamm’s family started arriving on scene almost immediately. His son felt warm, Camm said, so he climbed over the passenger seat, reached across the center console, pulled Brad out and placed him on the ground, attempting several minutes of CPR. Beside her, Camm said, Brad was shot in the chest, draped over the back seat like he was trying to get away. Frantically searching for his kids, he said he found Jill slumped behind the passenger seat, her face covered by a curtain of blonde hair wet with blood. Kim was in her underwear and her shoes were on top of the truck.Ĭamm told police that when he pulled into the driveway, he saw Kim sprawled on the garage floor beneath the truck’s open passenger door, blood pooling around her head. Kim and Brad were sprawled on the garage floor, bleeding, and Jill was still in the black Ford Bronco, shot in the head. When officers arrived, they found a distraught Camm at the threshold of a gruesome scene. “Get everybody out here to my house now!” Camm shouted to his former colleagues at his old state police post. At 9:29 p.m., police got a frantic call from a familiar voice. A couple hours later, Camm left the gym with the rest of the basketball players. 28, 2000, Camm played a basketball game at the church while Kim took Jill to dance class and Brad to swim practice. When they weren’t gathered on Lockhart Road, the drive that bears the family name, Camm’s family worshipped at the Georgetown Community Church, a structure and congregation built by his grandfather and led by his uncle. Twice a week they spent their afternoons with Kim’s parents. The children spent their days at Graceland Christian School, where Brad was in second grade and Jill in kindergarten. That summer, he helped coach Brad and Jill’s little league teams. Her husband had recently resigned from the Indiana State Police to take a job with the family business. It’s gone.”Īt the time of the murders, the Camm family lived in Georgetown, Ind., a quiet town outside New Albany. “The word ‘justice,’ I don’t - I don’t use that word no more. “We know a whole lot more about the injustice system,” says Donald Camm, David Camm’s 83-year-old father.
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Now they don’t speak.īy the time the third trial began this August, both sides had given up on the system. For more than a decade, they sat in the same courtroom, stood side by side in bathroom lines, bowed their heads at the same time to avoid the gore of evidence photos. His wife’s family has always thought he pulled the trigger. One prosecutor was forced off the case after he signed a book deal.Ĭamm’s family has advocated for his innocence. Those accusations coupled with testimony about Camm’s alleged affairs, later caused the state supreme court to throw out both convictions. In Camm’s first two trials, they claimed he had molested his 5-year-old daughter, but had no evidence to prove it. The prosecutors argued different stories to different juries. It turned out it belonged to an 11-time convicted felon whose handprint was found at the scene and would eventually admit to being present for the murders. The investigation was flawed from the start.įor years, police neglected to test DNA on a sweatshirt found under Brad’s body. The case began in September 2000, when David Camm’s 35-year-old wife Kim and their children Brad, 7, and Jill, 5, were found murdered in their southern Indiana home.
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