Ep. 114-115 | The Camm Family Murders

Written By Kelsey Mutch

On the night of September 28th, 2000, former Indiana State Police trooper David Camm came home from a church basketball game to find his wife Kim and their two young children, Bradley and Jill, shot to death in the garage of their Georgetown, Indiana home. 

Some believed it was the husband — a serial cheater, with life insurance policies on his family and his daughter's blood on his shirt. Others believed it was a convicted predator who had walked out of prison three months before the murders, whose M.O. seemed to fit the crime. Prosecutors would eventually argue it was both men, working together — despite there not being a single piece of evidence proving they had ever met. 

There would be thirteen years of trials, convictions, appeals, and reversals. Alleged evidence suppression and fabricated expert credentials. Blood spatter evidence (that experts would eventually call guesswork) used to convict a man twice. Jailhouse informants with violent criminal records of their own. A DNA database query that took two hours but wasn’t run for four years. A prosecutor who allegedly lied to the defense, pressured analysts to change their testimony, and threatened a witness with obstruction charges when she refused (all ALLEGED). Allegations of evidence tampering that reached into the police evidence room itself. And at the center of all of it, a man serving thirteen years in prison for murders the evidence had pointed away from him since the night they were committed. 

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Kelsey Mutch
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