GUILTY NC - Tim Hennis on trial in the '85 Eastburn murders, Fort Bragg

[evelyn24]

The sperm wasn't fabricated it was in evidence since the beginning but no DNA tests existed like they do now a day. He did it imo. Case closed.

Hollywood's book and movie is one fantasy. DNA is the reality.

 

[Sameera]

http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2012/01/17/1151062?sac=Mil
Appeals court says federal judge did not err in Timothy Hennis ...
Fayetteville Observer

 

[sundrop]

http://www.drmauricegodwin.com/eastburnmurders.html

 

[gracielee]

http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2012/02/01/1154515?sac=fo.local


Fort Bragg commander approves Timothy Hennis conviction, death sentence.

 

[kemo]

Does the principle of double Jeopardy apply? Did the Army have legal jurisdiction? These are legal issues lawyers will quibble over.

Is he guilty? Hell Yes!

 

[gracielee]

Does the principle of double Jeopardy apply? Did the Army have legal jurisdiction? These are legal issues lawyers will quibble over.

Is he guilty? Hell Yes!

I believe those issues were decided prior to hennis most recent trial. The way I understand it, it is much like the jeffrey macdonald case, in reverse. Hennis had not been held accountable by the military. This was a military court martial. If my understanding is flawed perhaps someone else might correct me.

 

[lonetraveler]

I believe those issues were decided prior to hennis most recent trial. The way I understand it, it is much like the jeffrey macdonald case, in reverse. Hennis had not been held accountable by the military. This was a military court martial. If my understanding is flawed perhaps someone else might correct me.

You are correct, the possibility of double Jeopardy applying has already been ruled out.

 

[lonetraveler]

The sperm wasn't fabricated it was in evidence since the beginning but no DNA tests existed like they do now a day. He did it imo. Case closed.

Hollywood's book and movie is one fantasy. DNA is the reality.

I agree. I'm sure that if DNA testing had been available in 1989 Hennis would have never been acquitted. There would have been at the least, a hung jury.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Gosh - I've read thru this thread off and on occasionally and I guess I had forgotten a lot about it. Just caught an episode about it on a true crime show tonight....I had no idea of the ramifications and the whole back story. Fascinating and yes, just like the Macdonald case in reverse.

I was surprised at how tall Hennis was.....he was huge in comparison to the two officers escorting him out of the courthouse. Nobody in the Eastburn house stood a chance. How awful.

 

[Salem]

Bump.

 

[Salem]

Bump.

 

[Daisy1975]

Stumbled upon this case today and caught the 20/20 episode. Horrifying!!!!

Especially since he had a young wife and daughter of his own.

I take it he is still on death row?

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.ktuu.com/news/nation/the-weird-triple-murder-trials-of-tim-hennis/27033642

He now sits in solitary confinement on death row at Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas, awaiting appeal...

It likely will be a long time before the final page is written in this bizarre murder mystery.

Even after the appeals process is over, Hennis cannot be executed without presidential approval. In recent years, that hasn't happened very often. The U.S. military has not executed anyone from its ranks since 1961.

 

[lonetraveler]

http://www.ktuu.com/news/nation/the-weird-triple-murder-trials-of-tim-hennis/27033642

I've been following Hennis since the second trial. I have a special interest in it because I served on that jury. Unfortunately DNA was not available for the sperm sample at the time of the second trial or the verdict would have been guilty.

 

[sundrop]

Don't forget there's unknown male DNA on a towel next to Mrs Eastburn's body that doesn't match hennis and has never been run through the federal DNA database

 

[lonetraveler]

Don't forget there's unknown male DNA on a towel next to Mrs Eastburn's body that doesn't match hennis and has never been run through the federal DNA database

DNA testing wasn't in use at the time of the second trial.

 

[sundrop]

It was in the second trial and there's unknown male DNA at scene that doesn't match hennis or anyone known but has never been submitted to the federal DNA database

 

[lonetraveler]

It was in the second trial and there's unknown male DNA at scene that doesn't match hennis or anyone known but has never been submitted to the federal DNA database

What I'm saying is that courts did not use DNA testing at that time. It was so new and still in the testing phase. During the trial it could only be said if certain characteristics were the same in any fluids left on any material at the scene.

 

[NCsleuther]

It was in the second trial and there's unknown male DNA at scene that doesn't match hennis or anyone known but has never been submitted to the federal DNA

Links? I've never heard this before. My dad is connected to this case and has never heard it either so I'm definitely interested!

 

[sundrop]

That's because he doesn't have inside knowledge of biological evidence found at the crime scene