Murder On Lockhart Road

Bizarre Twists And Evidence Keep Turning Case On Its Head

(CBS)  Camm has always insisted that he could never have killed his wife and kids, and that he was a happy family man from the moment he met Kim. It all started out beautifully when they married in 1989. It wasn’t long before Bradley was born.

But Kim and David were headed for trouble. When Kim was pregnant with Jill, he had an affair. "It’s sheer stupidity on my part, I allowed myself to get caught into something that you know, that never should have happened. And you know I take full responsibility for that," Camm admits.

The couple eventually reconciled and a few years later, just months before the murders, things seemed to get even better. Camm quit his job with the police and began work at the family business. The new job gave Camm what he said he wanted most: more time with his family and more money.

But as this case unfolded, police said they started learning about more dark secrets. It looked like Camm had been leading a double life. As one woman put it, Camm was "very flirty with the women," and Camm acknowledges "there had been a few incidents over the ten-year-period."

One woman, who asked not to be named, met Camm in the early 1990s. She says their relationship lasted for about six months, and ended abruptly when she learned Camm was married.

But Camm, she says, was persistent and there was one phone call she’ll never forget. "It was more or less screaming at me. You know, 'Who told you!'" she recalls.

Prosecutor Stan Faith believes Camm’s adultery was a motive for murder. "If you are wanting to lead a lifestyle that he seemed to want to lead, you may want to get rid of your spouse. This happens all the time."

In Jan. 2002, a little more than a year after the murders, Camm’s trial began. Prosecutors planned to present dozens of witnesses, including a parade of women saying Camm propositioned them for sex

In addition to the women, there was a pile of forensic evidence including that grey sweatshirt, which he insists was left there by the real killer.

On that point, prosecutors had to admit that Camm was right: the DNA on the sweatshirt was not his. And they didn't know whose palm print it was on the Bronco, either. But they still had plenty of plenty of powerful evidence to throw at Camm, including an explosive autopsy report that would turn the trial on its head.

Dr. Tracy Corey performed the autopsy on five-year-old Jill Camm. "When we began to remove her clothes, we immediately noticed blood," she remembers.

It was where they found blood that alarmed Dr. Corey and her colleagues. "Personally I think that Jill Camm was the victim of sexual abuse. What I can say as far as professionally, when asked what my professional opinion is, I can say that she has blunt trauma, that that blunt trauma is consistent with sexual abuse, but it might be consistent with something else. It’s just, I haven’t been presented with a scenario that explains that to me," she says.

Dr. Corey's discovery stunned and sickened Kim’s family. If Jill had been molested then who did it? Prosecutors thought they knew: David Camm.

But Camm denies molesting his daughter and says he didn't know anything about a sexual assault.

The most important question for Camm’s defense was: when was Jill molested? Dr. Corey believes it was within hours of her death, between 12 and 24 hours.

By all accounts, Camm didn’t see Jill after 7 a.m. on the day she died. So if she was molested within 12 hours of her death, Camm didn’t have access to her and couldn’t have done it. But, if it was within 24 hours, that’s another story.

It is very tough to prove Camm molested his daughter and he has never been charged with it.